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Fall 2023
Dec 22, 2024
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POSC 229 - Public Policy Analysis
An analysis of the policy process emphasizing the response of officials to problems, available policy alternatives, the way officials choose and implement programs and the effect of these programs. The aim of this course is to provide policy researchers with a set of conceptual frameworks for analyzing the political environment of public policy and policy research, and to practice forming effective strategies for policy analysis, program evaluation, policy design, and advocacy. The concepts, skills, and analytical tools students learn in the course rest upon a foundation of economic principles, institutional analysis and, to a lesser extent, political and social psychology. Students identify patterns of behavior and outcomes, ways of thinking about those patterns and outcomes, and methods of analysis that facilitate understanding and prediction, and, ultimately, the shaping of strategies to improve the success of policy researchers in their professional life. A substantive topic is used to illustrate the basic concepts and principles of the public policy process.
1.000 Credit hours
4.000 Lecture hours

Levels: Non-Matriculated, Undergraduate
Schedule Types: Independent/Directed Study, Lecture

Political Sci, Law, &Global St Department

Course Attributes:
Dv1_DomainGenEd-Domain III-B, Undergraduate Level Course, Lrng Objective 03, Lrng Objective 06

Restrictions:
May not be assigned one of the following Student Attributes:     
      DGCE Student
May not be enrolled as the following Classifications:     
      Senior - Continuing Educatn
      Junior - Continuing Educatn
      Freshman - Continuing Educatn
      Sophomore - Continuing Educatn

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