Courses of Instruction

USC Price School of Public Policy

Courses

Urban and Regional Planning

• PLUS 692 Conspectus Preparation

  Units: 4
  Terms Offered: FaSpSm

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  Preparation of a case study of a specific planning and/or development project that defines the student’s field of study.
  Instruction Mode: Lecture
  Grading Option: Letter
  
  
• PLUS 694a Planning, Design and Development Professional Dissertation

  Units: 2
  Credit on acceptance of planning, design and development professional dissertation.
  Instruction Mode: Lecture
  Grading Option: In-progress to Credit/No Credit
  
  
• PLUS 694b Planning, Design and Development Professional Dissertation

  Units: 2
  Credit on acceptance of planning, design and development professional dissertation.
  Instruction Mode: Lecture
  Grading Option: In-progress to Credit/No Credit
  
  
• PLUS 694c Planning, Design and Development Professional Dissertation

  Units: 2
  Credit on acceptance of planning, design and development professional dissertation.
  Instruction Mode: Lecture
  Grading Option: In-progress to Credit/No Credit
  
  
• PLUS 694d Planning, Design and Development Professional Dissertation

  Units: 2
  Credit on acceptance of planning, design and development professional dissertation.
  Instruction Mode: Lecture
  Grading Option: In-progress and Credit/No Credit
  
  
• PLUS 694z Planning, Design and Development Professional Dissertation

  Units: 0
  Credit on acceptance of planning, design and development professional dissertation.
  Instruction Mode: Lecture
  Grading Option: In-progress to Credit/No Credit
  
  

Policy, Planning, and Development

• PPD 100m Los Angeles, The Enduring Pueblo

  Units: 4
  Terms Offered: FaSp

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  Gateway to the minor in Planning and Development. Ethnic history of Los Angeles, emphasis placed on architecture, planning, and development. Multiplicity of cross-connections shaped by race, ethnicity, religion, gender, and sexual orientation.
  Duplicates Credit in former PLDV 100.
  Instruction Mode: Lecture
  Grading Option: Letter
  
  
• PPD 225 Public Policy and Management

  Units: 4
  Terms Offered: FaSp

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  Institutions, legal context, and processes of public policy and management. Contemporary theories of public policy formulation, implementation, and evaluation. Public managerial challenges and reforms.
  Instruction Mode: Lecture
  Grading Option: Letter
  
  
• PPD 227 Urban Planning and Development

  Units: 4
  Terms Offered: FaSp

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  Gateway to BS, Public Policy, Management and Planning and minor in Planning and Development. City building and development process; who plans, politics of planning and development; major topics include land use, fiscal policy, transportation, sustainability, and economic development.
  Instruction Mode: Lecture
  Grading Option: Letter
  
  
• PPD 240g Citizenship and Public Ethics

  Units: 4
  Terms Offered: Fa, Sp

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  Review of legal and ethical traditions of citizenship with emphasis on the latter; consideration of implications for current practice of public policy-making and management.
  Satisfies New General Education in Category C: Social Analysis
  Duplicates Credit in former PPMT 240.
  Instruction Mode: Lecture
  Grading Option: Letter
  
  
• PPD 245g The Urban Context for Policy and Planning

  Units: 4
  Terms Offered: Fa

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  The urban context for planning and policy decisions. Socioeconomic, physical, and spatial structure of cities; and the underlying demographic, economic, and social processes that drive their ongoing transformation.
  Satisfies New General Education in Category C: Social Analysis
  Instruction Mode: Lecture
  Grading Option: Letter
  
  
• PPD 250m Cities in the Developing World

  Units: 4
  Terms Offered: FaSp

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  The transition from traditional to modern cities in the developing world. Primacy and dualism; comparative urbanism as an expression of cultural variation; contrast in Western cities.
  Instruction Mode: Lecture
  Grading Option: Letter
  
  
• PPD 300 Social Justice Issues in Public Policy and Urban Planning

  Units: 4
  Terms Offered: FaSp

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  Social justice issues through the lens of public policy and urban planning with main focus on Los Angeles; critical thinking skills about the fields and their relevance to social justice 
  Registration Restriction: Open only to BS, Public Policy and BS, Urban Studies and Planning students
  Instruction Mode: Lecture
  Grading Option: Letter
  
  
• PPD 301 PPD Practices: Internship Seminar

  Units: 2
  Terms Offered: FaSpSm

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  Policy, planning, and development skills for practice; internship seminar; leadership, group dynamics and presentation skills; application of management; organizational diversity; reflection on experiences.
  Duplicates Credit in the former PPD 401.
  Instruction Mode: Lecture
  Grading Option: Credit/No Credit
  
  
• PPD 303 Statistics for Policy, Planning, and Development

  Units: 4
  Terms Offered: FaSpSm

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  Statistical applications applied to the real world; techniques including probability, sampling; hypothesis formation and testing; correlation, and linear regression.
  Prerequisite: MATH 117g 
  Duplicates Credit in PPD 404 
  Instruction Mode: Lecture
  Grading Option: Letter
  
  
• PPD 306 Visual Methods in Policy, Management, Planning and Development

  Units: 4
  Terms Offered: FaSp

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  Introduction to graphic design, photodocumentation, and geographic information systems as employed in planning, policy, and development. Visual explanations. Computer and by-hand applications.
  Duplicates Credit in former PLDV 410.
  Instruction Mode: Lecture
  Grading Option: Letter
  
  
• PPD 313 Finance of the Public Sector

  Units: 4
  Terms Offered: FaSp

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  Justifications for and effects of government policies; tax and spending sides of government budgets; public goods; externalities; social insurance; redistribution and welfare; tax policy.
  Prerequisite: ECON 203 .
  Duplicates Credit in former PPMT 313.
  Instruction Mode: Lecture
  Grading Option: Letter
  
  
• PPD 314 Public Policy and Law

  Units: 4
  Terms Offered: Fa

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  Institutional foundations and analysis of public policy issues; policy formulation and implementation; application of theories; case analyses.
  Instruction Mode: Lecture
  Grading Option: Letter
  
  
• PPD 315 Analytic Foundations for Public Policy

  Units: 4
  Terms Offered: Sp

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  Qualitative methods of analysis; ethical and political implications of policy choices; issue diagnosis and policy design skills; critical reasoning and ethics; policy leadership.
  Instruction Mode: Lecture
  Grading Option: Letter
  
  
• PPD 316 Human Resource Management for Public Organizations

  Units: 4
  Terms Offered: FaSp

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  Human resource development and management; values and processes in civil service career systems; training practices; human relations in supervision; personnel theory.
  Duplicates Credit in former PPMT 316.
  Instruction Mode: Lecture
  Grading Option: Letter
  
  
• PPD 318 Financial Accounting in Public and Nonprofit Organizations

  Units: 4
  Terms Offered: FaSp

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  Basic accounting principles and concepts necessary for the preparation and understanding of financial statements; accounting for service organizations in the public/nonprofit sector; fund accounting.
  Duplicates Credit in former PPMT 351.
  Instruction Mode: Lecture
  Grading Option: Letter
  
  
• PPD 320 Organizational Behavior in Public Administration

  Units: 4
  Terms Offered: FaSp

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  Understanding human behavior in public organization: motivation, roles, communication; group behavior and decision-making in public context; managing conflict; leadership and change in public complex organizational systems.
  Duplicates Credit in former PPMT 485.
  Instruction Mode: Lecture
  Grading Option: Letter
  
  
• PPD 325 Fundamentals of Health Policy and Management

  Units: 4
  Terms Offered: FaSp

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  Learning the institutions of health care delivery and financing; evaluating key health policy issues; understanding and using economic, statistical and mathematical tools as ways to inform health policy issues.
  Duplicates Credit in former PPD 230
  Instruction Mode: Lecture
  Grading Option: Letter
  
  
• PPD 330 Introduction to Health Care Systems

  Units: 4
  Terms Offered: Sp

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  Concepts and determinants of health and illness; health care delivery organizations and programs; the role of the administrator; issues in health care financing and access; quality evaluation; future trends.
  Duplicates Credit in former PPMT 330.
  Instruction Mode: Lecture
  Grading Option: Letter
  
  
• PPD 340 The American System of Justice

  Units: 4
  Terms Offered: Irregular

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  Introduction to the system of justice administration: components — police services, judiciary, corrections; interrelationships and issues; management strategies for change.
  Duplicates Credit in former PPMT 340.
  Instruction Mode: Lecture
  Grading Option: Letter
  
  
• PPD 342 Crime and Public Policy

  Units: 4
  Terms Offered: Fa

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  Public policy agenda-setting, alternatives formulation, and implementation for crime and criminal justice; analysis of specific issues including crime control, death penalty and gun control.
  Duplicates Credit in former PPMT 342.
  Instruction Mode: Lecture
  Grading Option: Letter
  
  
• PPD 343 Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Public Policy

  Units: 4
  Terms Offered: Fa

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  Overview of terrorism, government policies and practices, issues of civil liberties, challenges to public sector management.
  Instruction Mode: Lecture
  Grading Option: Letter
  
  
• PPD 344 Environmental Policy and Sustainable Development

  Units: 4
  Introduction to critical issues of environmental policy in looking toward a more sustainable future; the science and policy of climate change; equity and justice; the greening of industry, governing for sustainable development; policy tools in addressing issues of environmental protection and sustainability.
  Instruction Mode: Lecture
  Grading Option: Letter
  
  
• PPD 353 Philanthropy and Social Change

  Units: 4
  Terms Offered: Fa

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  History, theories, philosophies, and practices of philanthropy; relationship between philanthropy and nonprofit world; grant-making procedures and relation to social innovation.
  Instruction Mode: Lecture
  Grading Option: Letter
  
  
• PPD 357 Government and Business

  Units: 4
  Terms Offered: FaSp

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  Interrelated roles of business and public institutions; effects of public policies and laws on business sector; incorporates public and business perspectives.
  Prerequisite: ECON 203 .
  Duplicates Credit in former PPMT 357.
  Instruction Mode: Lecture
  Grading Option: Letter
  
  
• PPD 358 Urban and Regional Economics

  Units: 4
  Terms Offered: Fa

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  Basic concepts of urban and regional economies; how planners intervene in the urban market; housing, transportation, public goods; land use politics; fiscal issues; cost-benefit analysis.
  Duplicates Credit in former PLDV 402.
  Instruction Mode: Lecture
  Grading Option: Letter
  
  
• PPD 360 Urban Transportation Planning and Policy

  Units: 4
  Terms Offered: Sp

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  Current transportation planning and policy critiques. Transportation planning; the relationship to urban structure; conventional and para-transit modes; analysis of local plans.
  Duplicates Credit in former PLDV 480.
  Instruction Mode: Lecture
  Grading Option: Letter
  
  
• PPD 361 Sustainable Communities, Policy and Planning

  Units: 4
  Terms Offered: FaSp

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  Policy and planning as shaped by sustainability theories; sustainability indicators; topics include water resources, air quality, land use regulations, environmental design, carrying capacity, ecological footprint analysis. 
  Duplicates Credit in former PPD 461
  Instruction Mode: Lecture
  Grading Option: Letter
  
  
• PPD 364 Technology and the City

  Units: 4
  Terms Offered: Sp

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  Smart cities; connectivity and technological innovation; effects of technology on infrastructure management and efficiency; how public policy has responded to technological change and identify best practices; case studies on the impact of technology on cities.
  Instruction Mode: Lecture
  Grading Option: Letter
  
  
• PPD 371 The Nonprofit Sector and the Public Interest

  Units: 4
  Terms Offered: Fa

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  Theories of the voluntary nonprofit sector in society and its relationship to government and business; public policies toward the sector.
  Duplicates Credit in former PPMT 371.
  Instruction Mode: Lecture
  Grading Option: Letter
  
  
• PPD 372m Public Service in an Urban Setting

  Units: 4
  Terms Offered: Sp

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  Voluntary service in an urban, multicultural context: diverse meanings and practices, history, motivations, relationship to charity and change, dilemmas, public policies; service learning project required.
  Duplicates Credit in former PPMT 372.
  Instruction Mode: Lecture
  Grading Option: Letter
  
  
• PPD 373 Public Policy and Planning Analysis

  Units: 4
  Terms Offered: FaSp

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  Applied analytic modeling and data manipulation; visual presentation; interpretation of data; needs assessment and market failure analysis; indexing; extrapolation and simple forecasting; simple risk analysis; benefit-cost analysis.
  Prerequisite: ECON 203 , PPD 225 , PPD 303 .
  Duplicates Credit in the former PPD 473.
  Instruction Mode: Lecture
  Grading Option: Letter
  
  
• PPD 380a International Perspectives on Urban Problem Solving

  Units: 4
  Terms Offered: Irregular

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  Research on comparative urban public policy and administration utilizing case study approach; field research includes study in various foreign cities.
  Duplicates Credit in former PPMT 412ab.
  Instruction Mode: Lecture
  Grading Option: Letter
  
  
• PPD 380b International Perspectives on Urban Problem Solving

  Units: 4
  Terms Offered: Irregular

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  Research on comparative urban public policy and administration utilizing case study approach; field research includes study in various foreign cities.
  Duplicates Credit in former PPMT 412ab.
  Instruction Mode: Lecture
  Grading Option: Letter
  
  
• PPD 382 International Development

  Units: 4
  Terms Offered: FaSp

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  Definitions and measurements of development; impact of globalization; concept and practice of international and development administration and planning at local, national, and global governance levels.
  Duplicates Credit in former PLDV 405.
  Instruction Mode: Lecture
  Grading Option: Letter
  
  
• PPD 390 Special Problems

  Units: 1, 2, 3, 4
  Supervised, individual studies. No more than one registration permitted. Enrollment by petition only.
  Duplicates Credit in former PLDV 390 and PPMT 390.
  Instruction Mode: Lecture
  Grading Option: Letter
  
  
• PPD 400 Topics in Public Policy and Urban Studies

  Units: 4
  Terms Offered: FaSp

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  Seminar in cross cutting topics in public policy and urban studies that engages students with faculty and scholars in interdisciplinary research and analysis of key problems and issues in the fields
  Registration Restriction: Open only to BS, Public Policy and BS, Urban Studies and Planning majors
  Instruction Mode: Lecture
  Grading Option: Letter
  
  
• PPD 402 Management of Public and Nonprofit Organizations

  Units: 4
  Terms Offered: Fa

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  Contemporary management theory; the nature of complex organizations; organizational and intergovernmental arrangements; roles and responsibilities of managers; managerial and organizational effectiveness; organizational structure and dynamics.
  Instruction Mode: Lecture
  Grading Option: Letter
  
  
• PPD 403 Management Analysis I

  Units: 4
  Terms Offered: Sp

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  Introduction to organizational and systems analysis; historical perspective; systems theory; information systems, procedure analysis; management planning; introduction to models.
  Duplicates Credit in former PPMT 403.
  Instruction Mode: Lecture
  Grading Option: Letter
  
  
• PPD 404 Empirical Methods for Public Policy

  Units: 4
  Terms Offered: FaSp

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  Introduction to multivariate regression analysis for policy analysis; course begins with Ordinary Least Squares (OLS) estimation and covers some advanced topics such as panel data and experimental methods; application of these tools in a variety of policy contexts such as education, labor, and health.
  Prerequisite: PPD 303 
  Instruction Mode: Lecture
  Grading Option: Letter
  
  
• PPD 405 Fundraising for Policy and Planning

  Units: 2
  Terms Offered: Sp

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  Fundraising in the nonprofit sector; role and structure of philanthropy; strategic issues in the solicitation of private funds for the public good; effect of fundraising on behavior of institutions.
  Instruction Mode: Lecture
  Grading Option: Letter
  
  
• PPD 407 Financial Management of Public and Nonprofit Organizations

  Units: 4
  Terms Offered: Sp

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  Time value of money, risk, government bonds and tax-exempt financing, cost of capital, budgeting, financial statement analysis, and working capital management.
  Instruction Mode: Lecture
  Grading Option: Letter
  
  
• PPD 410 Comparative Urban Development

  Units: 4
  Terms Offered: Sp

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  Urbanization and urban development and growth through an international scope; globalizing cities.
  Instruction Mode: Lecture
  Grading Option: Letter
  
  
• PPD 411a Sacramento Semester

  Units: 4
  Terms Offered: Irregular

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  Exploration of political, economic, and administrative climate of the state government; basic processes and functions considered through seminars, research projects, visitations, group discussions, and internships.
  Duplicates Credit in former PPMT 411abcd.
  Instruction Mode: Lecture
  Grading Option: Letter
  
  
• PPD 411b Sacramento Semester

  Units: 4
  Terms Offered: Irregular

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  Exploration of political, economic, and administrative climate of the state government; basic processes and functions considered through seminars, research projects, visitations, group discussions, and internships.
  Duplicates Credit in former PPMT 411abcd.
  Instruction Mode: Lecture
  Grading Option: Letter
  
  
• PPD 411c Sacramento Semester

  Units: 4
  Terms Offered: Irregular

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  Exploration of political, economic, and administrative climate of the state government; basic processes and functions considered through seminars, research projects, visitations, group discussions, and internships.
  Duplicates Credit in former PPMT 411abcd.
  Instruction Mode: Lecture
  Grading Option: Letter
  
  
• PPD 411d Sacramento Semester

  Units: 4
  Terms Offered: Irregular

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  Exploration of political, economic, and administrative climate of the state government; basic processes and functions considered through seminars, research projects, visitations, group discussions, and internships.
  Duplicates Credit in former PPMT 411abcd.
  Instruction Mode: Lecture
  Grading Option: Letter
  
  
• PPD 412L GeoDesign Practicum

  Units: 4
  Terms Offered: FaSp

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  (Enroll in SSCI 412 )
  
• PPD 413 Administration of Health Care Organizations

  Units: 4
  Terms Offered: Sp

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  Theory and practice; role of governing bodies, medical staffs and quality review committees; current trends; community responsibility; regulatory and oversight agencies.
  Duplicates Credit in former PPMT 439.
  Instruction Mode: Lecture
  Grading Option: Letter
  
  
• PPD 414 Community Health Policy and Planning

  Units: 4
  Terms Offered: Sp

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  Historical perspectives on and the contemporary practice of community health planning; impact of culture, socioeconomics, and environment; policy dimensions; urban planning’s role in enhancing and sustaining health.
  Instruction Mode: Lecture
  Grading Option: Letter
  
  
• PPD 415 Health Policy

  Units: 4
  Terms Offered: Sp

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  Health policy analysis and challenges; price of health; structure of major sectors in health care; role of insurance in policy debates; trade-offs with policy decisions.
  Prerequisite: PPD 325 .
  Instruction Mode: Lecture
  Grading Option: Letter
  
  
• PPD 416 Food Policy and Planning

  Units: 2
  Terms Offered: Sp

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  Key issues related to the practice of food system planning; practice of creating and implementing food policies; understanding of food systems; issues around community food governance.
  Instruction Mode: Lecture
  Grading Option: Letter
  
  
• PPD 420 Environmental Impact Assessment

  Units: 4
  Terms Offered: Sp

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  Exploration of the role of the National Environmental Policy Act and the California Environmental Policy Act; study of environmental impact assessments including the regulatory aspects, stakeholder and participatory processes, and legal framework.
  Instruction Mode: Lecture
  Grading Option: Letter
  
  
• PPD 421 Land Use, Environment, and Housing in Developing Countries

  Units: 4
  Comparative analysis of issues in the built environment in the US and abroad; development, land use, and the supply of housing; housing affordability; land tenure.
  Instruction Mode: Lecture
  Grading Option: Letter
  
  
• PPD 422 Transportation and Technology and the Future of Mobility

  Units: 4
  Introduction of the role that technology will play in facilitating shared mobility, disrupting transportation markets, and reshaping multi-modal urban transportation systems; analyses of governance issues; the interaction between private markets and regulators; changes in the nature of infrastructure and urban planning that will be required to accommodate the wired future of transportation.
  Instruction Mode: Lecture
  Grading Option: Letter
  
  
• PPD 427L Geographic Information Systems and Planning Applications

  Units: 4
  Terms Offered: Fa

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  Basic GIS concepts, ArcView and other GIS software, planning applications and databases, basic cartography; students select, research and prepare a planning GIS analysis project.
  Instruction Mode: Lecture, Lab Required
  Grading Option: Letter
  
  
• PPD 429 Urban Design Practicum

  Units: 4
  Terms Offered: Irregular

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  Application of design concepts and graphic skills to a local design problem sponsored by a local public or private client in a studio setting; site visits, community contact, presentations.
  Prerequisite: PPD 306 , PPD 425 .
  Duplicates Credit in former PLDV 414.
  Instruction Mode: Lecture
  Grading Option: Letter
  
  
• PPD 430 Urban Informatics

  Units: 4
  Terms Offered: Sp

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  Introduction to urban informatics including the fundamentals of coding, urban data analysis and statistics, visualization, mapping, smart cities/technology and telling stories with data.
  Instruction Mode: Lecture
  Grading Option: Letter
  
  
• PPD 431 Undergraduate Policy, Planning, and Development Studio

  Units: 4
  Terms Offered: FaSp

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  Application of methods in the exploration of a specific project, policy, or organization from the multiple perspectives of the five tracks in the undergraduate program.
  Registration Restriction: Open only to Price School of Public Policy juniors and seniors
  Instruction Mode: Lecture
  Grading Option: Letter
  
  
• PPD 438 Local Economic Development

  Units: 4
  Terms Offered: Fa

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  Economic development in a capitalist system, historic review, sectoral review, funding, strategizing, partnerships, evaluation; class project.
  Duplicates Credit in former PLDV 447.
  Instruction Mode: Lecture
  Grading Option: Letter
  
  
• PPD 439 Housing and Community Development

  Units: 4
  Terms Offered: Fa

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  Evolution of government housing and community development programs; present practices, e.g., housing elements, economic development, neighborhood rehabilitation; housing needs and market analysis; housing and health.
  Duplicates Credit in former PLDV 440.
  Instruction Mode: Lecture
  Grading Option: Letter
  
  
• PPD 466 Urban Government and Management

  Units: 4
  Terms Offered: Irregular

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  Preparation and discussion of cases dealing with selected policy areas including transportation, housing, poverty, and environmental quality.
  Duplicates Credit in former PPMT 427.
  Instruction Mode: Lecture
  Grading Option: Letter
  
  
• PPD 468 Cross-Cultural Negotiations: Communication and Strategy

  Units: 4
  (Enroll in COMM 468 )
  
• PPD 475 The Future of California

  Units: 4
  (Enroll in MDA 475 )
  
• PPD 476 Politics and Administration

  Units: 4
  Terms Offered: Sp

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  Administrative relationships to the policy processes; influence of political and economic pressures on administrative policy determination; political behavior by administrators; case analysis.
  Duplicates Credit in former PPMT 486.
  Instruction Mode: Lecture
  Grading Option: Letter
  
  
• PPD 478 Social Innovation

  Units: 4
  Terms Offered: Fa

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  Strategies and processes of social innovation and change; examination of social change in the market, government, and within the nonprofit sector; dynamics; civic action and activism.
  Instruction Mode: Lecture
  Grading Option: Letter
  
  
• PPD 482 Comparative Public Administration

  Units: 4
  Terms Offered: Sp

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  Methodology, theories, and models of comparison; functional processes of administration in developing and developed nations compared; role of bureaucracy in development and nation-building; ecology of administration.
  Duplicates Credit in former PPMT 482.
  Instruction Mode: Lecture
  Grading Option: Letter
  
  
• PPD 485m U.S. Immigration Policy

  Units: 4
  Terms Offered: Fa

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  Examination of the historical and contemporary components of U.S. immigration policy with emphasis on policies addressing legal permanent immigrants, refugees, asylees, the undocumented.
  Instruction Mode: Lecture
  Grading Option: Letter
  
  
• PPD 490x Directed Research

  Units: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
  Max Units: 12.0
  Terms Offered: FaSpSm

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  Individual research and readings.
  Duplicates Credit in former PLDV 490x and PPMT 490x.
  Instruction Mode: Lecture
  Grading Option: Letter
  
  
• PPD 497a Senior Thesis

  Units: 2
  Terms Offered: FaSp

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  Writing of the honors capstone project in an area of interest related to the track of study; research and writing skills.
  Instruction Mode: Lecture
  Grading Option: Letter
  
  
• PPD 497b Senior Thesis

  Units: 2
  Terms Offered: FaSp

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  Writing of the honors capstone project in an area of interest related to the track of study; research and writing skills.
  Instruction Mode: Lecture
  Grading Option: Letter
  
  
• PPD 498 Senior Honors Seminar

  Units: 4
  Terms Offered: FaSpSm

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  Concepts, theories, and methods of analysis of a selected topic within the fields of public policy, management and planning. Students must have a 3.5 GPA in PPD courses; 3.0 GPA overall.
  Instruction Mode: Lecture
  Grading Option: Letter
  
  
• PPD 499 Special Topics

  Units: 2, 3, 4
  Max Units: 8.0
  Terms Offered: FaSpSm

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  Selected topics in Policy, Management and Planning.
  Duplicates Credit in former PLDV 499 and PPMT 499.
  Instruction Mode: Lecture
  Grading Option: Letter
  
  
• PPD 500 Intersectoral Leadership

  Units: 2
  Roles of public, private, nonprofit, and civil society sectors in policy, planning, and development. Leadership skills in negotiation, conflict resolution, institutional design, problem solving.
  Instruction Mode: Lecture
  Grading Option: Letter
  
  
• PPD 501a Economics for Policy, Planning and Development

  Units: 2
  Microeconomic theory as applied to policy, planning, and development; concepts of efficiency; macroeconomic issues.
  Instruction Mode: Lecture
  Grading Option: Letter
  
  
• PPD 501b Economics for Policy, Planning and Development

  Units: 2
  Microeconomic analysis and modeling to incorporate Market failure and issues of uncertainty and information failure; organization models; policy instruments; policy and planning applications.
  Instruction Mode: Lecture
  Grading Option: Letter
  
  
• PPD 502x Statistical Foundations for Public Management and Policy

  Units: 2
  Terms Offered: FaSp

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  Statistical analysis concepts and reasoning; sampling and data sources; focus on basic statistical applications in public management and policy analysis.
  Credit Restriction: Not for graduate credit for MHA, MPA, MPP and affiliated degrees.
  Instruction Mode: Lecture
  Grading Option: Letter
  
  
• PPD 503 Economics for Public Policy

  Units: 4
  Terms Offered: FaSpSm

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  Economic theory as applied to public policy. Concepts of efficiency and equity, analysis of market failure and policy interventions.
  Duplicates Credit in PPD 501a , PPD 501b 
  Instruction Mode: Lecture
  Grading Option: Letter
  
  
• PPD 504 Essential Statistics for Public Management

  Units: 2
  Terms Offered: FaSpSm

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  Essential statistics for public managers and administrators; application of statistical methods in addressing public policy and management questions.
  Instruction Mode: Lecture
  Grading Option: Letter
  
  
• PPD 505 Modeling for Health Policy and Medical Decision Making

  Units: 3
  Terms Offered: Fa

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  (Enroll in ISE 505 )
  
• PPD 506 Introduction to Microeconomics: Applications in Health

  Units: 2
  Terms Offered: Fa

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  Key microeconomic concepts and economic fundamentals for health policy and management professionals. Ties economic principles to real-world applications in health and healthcare.
  Instruction Mode: Lecture
  Grading Option: Letter
  
  
• PPD 507 Six-Sigma Methods and Applications

  Units: 3
  Terms Offered: FaSpSm

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  (Enroll in ISE 507 )
  
• PPD 508 Health Care Operations Improvement

  Units: 3
  Terms Offered: Sp

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  (Enroll in ISE 508 )
  
• PPD 509 Problems and Issues in the Health Field

  Units: 4
  Terms Offered: FaSp

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  Introduction to concepts and facts regarding the healthcare system, healthcare policy, epidemiology and disease trends, prevention, healthcare organizations, personnel, diversity, evidence, delivery systems, population health, financing and reimbursement.
  Registration Restriction: Open only to graduate students
  Duplicates Credit in former PUAD 530
  Instruction Mode: Lecture
  Grading Option: Letter
  
  
• PPD 510a Financial Management of Health Services

  Units: 4
  Terms Offered: FaSp

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  Accounting principles, financial reports, managerial finance, financial planning, capital investments, working capital analysis; elements of budgeting and reimbursement; performance standards; reporting; developing a management system.
  Prerequisite: PPD 516 ;
  Recommended Preparation: PPD 502  or competence in statistics.
  Instruction Mode: Lecture
  Grading Option: Letter
  
  
• PPD 510b Financial Management of Health Services

  Units: 2
  Terms Offered: FaSp

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  Changing practices, emerging issues, strategies and innovations in financial planning, management, and regulation; federal and state policies and requirements.
  Prerequisite: PPD 516 ;
  Recommended Preparation: PPD 502  or competence in statistics.
  Instruction Mode: Lecture
  Grading Option: Letter
  
  
• PPD 511 Health Information Systems

  Units: 2
  Terms Offered: FaSm

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  Conceptual framework for data base development; relational data management; use of health statistics; health indicators; confidentiality, security, privacy.
  Recommended Preparation: PPD 502  or competence in statistics and PPD 516  or competence in accounting.
  Instruction Mode: Lecture
  Grading Option: Letter
  
  
• PPD 512 Health Administration Residency Seminar

  Units: 2
  Supervised study of health care administration, governance, professional staff relations, internal operations and controls, legal and regulatory requirements, management policy and strategy.
  Prerequisite: PPD 509 
  Instruction Mode: Lecture
  Grading Option: Letter
  
  
• PPD 513 Legal Issues in Health Care Delivery

  Units: 2
  Terms Offered: FaSp

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  Rights of consumers; health-related powers of governments; rights and responsibilities of health care providers; interrelationships of rights, powers, and responsibilities.
  Recommended Preparation: PPD 509  or substantial prior work experience in health care organizations.
  Registration Restriction: Open only to graduate students.
  Instruction Mode: Lecture
  Grading Option: Letter
  
  
• PPD 514 Economic Concepts Applied to Health

  Units: 4
  Terms Offered: FaSpSm

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  Relationships between economic characteristics and health status; impact of economy on health services industry; demand and resources for health services; utilization, prices, costs, health insurance.
  Prerequisite: PPD 501a .
  Duplicates Credit in former PUAD 537.
  Instruction Mode: Lecture
  Grading Option: Letter
  
  
• PPD 515 Strategic Management of Health Organizations

  Units: 4
  Terms Offered: FaSpSm

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  Application of principles of health administration in several practice settings. Decision-making; strategic management; organizational performance; communication; provider comparisons.
  Prerequisite: PPD 501a  or HMGT 565 , PPD 545  or HMGT 520 ;
  Recommended Preparation: PPD 509  , PPD 511 , PPD 513 , PPD 514 , PPD 557 .
  Instruction Mode: Lecture
  Grading Option: Letter
  
  
• PPD 516 Financial Accounting for Health Care Organizations

  Units: 4
  Accounting as a management tool; accounting systems; basic accounting concepts and procedures; budgets; financial statements.
  Registration Restriction: Open only to graduate students.
  Instruction Mode: Lecture
  Grading Option: Letter
  
  
• PPD 517 Concepts and Practices in Managing Health Care Organizations

  Units: 2
  Terms Offered: FaSm

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  Application of principles of health administration. Role of managers; managing people and programs; human resource management concepts and applications; working with professionals; governance; public relations.
  Instruction Mode: Lecture
  Grading Option: Letter
  
  
• PPD 518 Quality of Care Concepts

  Units: 2
  Terms Offered: Sp

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  Quality issues and complexities affecting health care; fundamentals of quality improvement programs; examination of quality issues and improvement programs in various health care venues; strategies.
  Instruction Mode: Lecture
  Grading Option: Letter
  
  
• PPD 519 Methods and Applications of Health Services Research

  Units: 2
  Terms Offered: Fa

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  Examination of policy and management issues for empirical research; indicators and measurement of outcomes; impact on policy and management decisions; methodology; analysis of quantitative and qualitative data.
  Prerequisite: PPD 514 .
  Instruction Mode: Lecture
  Grading Option: Letter