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This class is a methods class, but we will have a central thematic thread: urban policy as racial conquest. This means that we will be focusing on the ways in which urban policy and the management of cites has worked as a form of racialized governance: restricting where certain people live, how they move through the city, what they are allowed to do, redistributing their wealth, limiting their political capital, and differentially burdening them with pollution while denying them of infrastructural benefits.

This course will focus on the fundamentals for designing and using a performance-based management framework in the public sector, specifically in the U.S. at the federal, state, local, and nonprofit levels. It will provide a working understanding of how to develop and apply ?useful measures that are used? ? a simple statement that is devilishly difficult to actually do, but is fundamental for every public manager to be successful.

This course is designed for those who may be involved in nonprofit organizations at some point in their lives as directors, employees, volunteers, customers, funders, or founders. Students will learn about the opportunities and challenges that nonprofits can face by partnering with an existing ?501(c)(3) and by creating, funding, running, and dissolving an imaginary ?501(c)(3) over the course of the semester. We will discuss the theoretical bases for the nonprofit sector and for tax exemption, formation and dissolution of nonprofit corporations at the state level.

The Anthropocene is a new geological epoch with humans as the dominant force driving change across our Earth systems. Our social, ecological and technological systems are changing rapidly and characterized by increasing complexity and uncertainty. This presents a fundamental challenge to our ability to develop policy solutions to critical social and environmental problems from the local to the global scale. This course will explore these policy challenges and how our communities and institutions can develop new policy approaches to complex, wicked sustainability problems.