Recent Teaching Activities
o POPL 100: Introduction to Public Policy and Analysis
Public policy incorporates policy formulation, analysis, evaluation and management as well as an understanding of the policy process in order to analyse and implement public policy. Through this course, students develop competence in important analytical tools for the study of public policy. Students learn how to evaluate implications of policies for efficiency and equity, and to employ basic research methods to interpret and present data relevant to policy considerations. The course also establishes the conceptual foundations and craft skills relevant to policy analysis. Students learn how to define policy problems, determine goals, design policy alternatives, and systematically assess trade‐offs to make recommendations.
o POPL 200: Ethical Development of Public Policy
The course examines major moral controversies in public life and seeks to help students develop the skills required for thinking and writing about the ethical considerations that ought to shape public institutions, guide public authorities, and inform the public’s judgments.
o POPL 229: Public Finance
This course provides a wide treatment in the introduction to the economic analysis of public policy issues. The course deals with microeconomic theory, and the use of analytical tools in their application to key policy case studies of spending, taxing and financing activities of government. Focus is given to new developments in public economics such as behavioral public economics and policy innovations.
o POPL 470: Communication Fundamentals for Leaders in Public Policy
This course provides an overview of major theories, key concepts, application strategies and research methods of communication theories and the interplay among leaders in public policy, the mass media, society, and individual citizens. It covers: 1) both classic communication theories and new approaches as related to multimedia and online communication; 2) the operation, process, and effects of the media and related communication industries; 3) various research methods in mass, interpersonal, organizational and intercultural communication; and 4) the interrelationship among communication, media and society
o POPL 488: Public Policy Planning and Analysis
This course analyzes policy and planning issues through microeconomic theory and statistical methods. Analytic modeling and data manipulation will be applied. This course will encompass needs assessment and market failure analysis, extrapolation and simple forecasting, visual presentation, interpretation of data in addition to indexing and simple risk analysis. These concepts are applied on case studies involving urban and regional policy and planning issues.
o POPL 499: Capstone (Senior Projects)
This Capstone course allows students to explore their workplace interest, produce an original report that meaningfully contributes ideas to their respective workplace area of interest, such as in government and the non‐profit sector. This experience opportunity for students to explore their career interests with greater intensity than is possible in a single course. Through development of a report, students demonstrate their experience with design, execution, analysis, and presentation of ideas within their respective chosen profession.