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USC Catalogue 2018-2019 [ARCHIVED CATALOGUE]

Courses of Instruction

The terms indicated are expected but are not guaranteed. For the courses offered during any given term, consult the Schedule of Classes.
 

Policy, Planning, and Development
  

  • PPD 508 Health Care Operations Improvement

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: Sp
    (Enroll in ISE 508 )
  

  • PPD 509 Problems and Issues in the Health Field

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Principles of epidemiology; disease trends, treatment efficacy, influences on utilization; health promotion, disease prevention and health protection; intergovernmental relationships; management of public health programs.
    Duplicates Credit in former PUAD 530.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • PPD 510a Financial Management of Health Services

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    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
    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
    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
    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
    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
    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
    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
    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
    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

  

  • PPD 520 Economic Approaches to Health Policy Analysis

    Units: 2
    Terms Offered: Sp
    Evaluation of current major health policy challenges and issues; economic analysis of behavioral responses to change in health care policy; new legislation; policy trade-offs.
    Prerequisite: PPD 514 .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • PPD 521a Information Technology Management Systems in Health Care

    Units: 2
    Terms Offered: Sm
    Principles and methods of systems analysis; assessment; strategic planning, design consideration; e-health and e-commerce system trends; health care information systems application areas; regulatory requirements.
    Prerequisite: PPD 511 .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • PPD 521b Information Technology Management Systems in Health Care

    Units: 2
    Terms Offered: Sm
    Principles and methods of systems analysis; assessment; strategic planning, design consideration; e-health and e-commerce system trends; health care information systems application areas; regulatory requirements. Analytic methods used to develop data-driven solutions; specific problems in health care organizations; integrating data; communicating data; interpretation; exploration of new approaches for improvement.
    Prerequisite: PPD 511 .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • PPD 524 Planning Theory

    Units: 2
    Terms Offered: Fa
    Development of a critical perspective by becoming more aware of the intellectual roots of the planning profession, with a focus on practical outcomes of actions.
    Duplicates Credit in former PLUS 501.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • PPD 525 Statistics and Arguing from Data

    Units: 2
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Fundamentals of probability and statistics, planning analysis techniques, computing standards, and understanding of the rhetoric related to statistical analysis.
    Duplicates Credit in former PLUS 502.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • PPD 526 Comparative International Development

    Units: 2
    Terms Offered: Fa
    Introduction to comparative international development with a focus on regional growth and urban development.
    Duplicates Credit in former PLUS 505.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • PPD 527 The Social Context of Planning

    Units: 2
    Terms Offered: Sp
    Examination of the formation of the modern urban environment with its consumer culture, social classes, and racial and ethnic diversity.
    Duplicates Credit in former PLUS 506.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • PPD 529 Legal Environment of Planning

    Units: 2
    Terms Offered: Sp
    Understanding of the legal system and its processes and laws applicable to land use and development and the legal nature of powers of public and private entities.
    Duplicates Credit in former PLUS 509.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • PPD 530 Historical Analysis of Urban Form and Planning Practice

    Units: 2
    Terms Offered: Sp
    Awareness, analysis, understanding, and influencing the city building process locally and regionally; isolate and exercise tools and methods of visual literacy.
    Duplicates Credit in former PLUS 510.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • PPD 531L Planning Studio

    Units: 4, 8, 12
    Max Units: 12.0
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Application of methods in planning, programming, research, and evaluation in a professional context; data collection and analysis; case studies; practical applications.
    Duplicates Credit in former PLUS 576L and PLUS 676L.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture, Lab Required
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • PPD 532L International Planning and Development Laboratory Workshop

    Units: 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
    Terms Offered: Sm
    Application of planning principles and methods to specific urban planning problems abroad; involves preparation in the spring semester and an overseas field visit and a collaborative practicum.
    Duplicates Credit in former PLUS 575L.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture, Lab Required
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • PPD 533 Planning History and Urban Form

    Units: 2
    History of urban planning with an emphasis on the evolution of how planning shaped the physical environment in response to political, economic, and social issues.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • PPD 540 Public Administration and Society

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    Administrative concepts, institutions, legal systems, and practices; values; facilitation of responsibilities and rights; professional applications for personal, private sector, and public achievement.
    Duplicates Credit in former PUAD 500.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • PPD 541 Public Financial Management and Budgeting

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Fa
    Financial management applied to public and nonprofit organizations; financial valuation, financial markets, budgeting, tax administration, debt financing, cost-benefit analysis and financial analysis.
    Duplicates Credit in PPDE 645.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • PPD 542 Policy and Program Evaluation

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Sp
    Methods and models for policy and program evaluation; methods of collecting and analyzing evaluation data; processes for linking evaluation to policy formulation and program management.
    Prerequisite: PPD 502 .
    Duplicates Credit in former PUAD 525 and former PUAD 529.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • PPD 543 Internship Seminar

    Units: 1
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Supervised study of management, analytical, or other professional activities in government; integration of theory, practice and relevant literature.
    Duplicates Credit in former PUAD 544.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • PPD 545 Human Behavior in Public Organizations

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    Behavior in organizations; focus on personal, interpersonal, and group level factors that influence such behavior.
    Duplicates Credit in former PUAD 585.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • PPD 546 Capstone in Public Administration

    Units: 4
    Constitutionally accountable and ethical practice, individually and organizationally; applications of core competencies; practical inquiry, analysis, systems; comparative frameworks; citizenship and public service.
    Prerequisite: PPD 540  and PPD 545  and PPD 542  or PPD 557 .
    Registration Restriction: Open only to master and doctoral students.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • PPD 552 Managing and Financing Public Engineering Works

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    (Enroll in CE 552 )
  

  • PPD 554 Foundations of Policy Analysis

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Fa
    Introduction to public policy analysis; issue diagnosis and policy design; analytic reasoning and argumentation; the role of the public policy professional; ethical issues in policy analysis.
    Registration Restriction: Open only to MPP and Public Policy Certificate students
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • PPD 555 Public Policy Formulation and Implementation

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    Political and organizational perspectives on policy making process; agenda setting, policy design, adoption, implementation, evaluation, modification or termination. Policy leadership skills: negotiation and strategic mapping.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • PPD 557 Modeling and Operations Research

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    Management science methods that support decision making in policy, management, and planning settings. Includes linear programming, queuing theory, decision analysis, and forecasting.
    Prerequisite: PPD 502  or PPD 525 .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • PPD 558 Multivariate Statistical Analysis

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Applied multivariate statistics in support of policy, management, and planning problem solving. Includes regression analysis, logit models, and an introduction to time-series models and multi-equation estimation.
    Prerequisite: PPD 502  or PPD 525 .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • PPD 559 Policy Implementation and Evaluation

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Theoretical approaches, critical issues, and research methods in public policy implementation. Field-based research project.
    Duplicates Credit in former PUAD 570.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • PPD 560 Methods for Policy Analysis

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Sp
    Examination of methods used in the analysis of policy methods, including cost benefit analysis, decision and risk analysis, and applied social science methods.
    Prerequisite: PPD 502  and PPD 554  and PPD 501b .
    Duplicates Credit in former PUAD 572.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • PPD 561a Policy Analysis Practicum

    Units: 1
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Application and integration of the knowledge and techniques of analytic, quantitative, managerial, political and ethical analyses to specific public policy problems.
    Prerequisite: PPD 501a  and PPD 501b  and PPD 554  and PPD 555  and PPD 560  and PPD 558 
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • PPD 561b Policy Analysis Practicum

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Application and integration of the knowledge and techniques of analytic, quantitative, managerial, political and ethical analyses to specific public policy problems.
    Duplicates Credit in former PUAD 589.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • PPD 568 Environmental Governance and Sustainability

    Units: 2
    Terms Offered: Fa
    Introduction to leading issues of environmental governance and policy in looking toward a more sustainable future; normatively important concerns and the social, cultural, and political dimensions; thematic look from values to action.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • PPD 569 Applied International Policy Analysis and Management Project

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Sp
    Enables students to integrate theory, research and practice into an applied project of their own choosing. The output of this course is a professional report in a selected public policy or management area.
    Duplicates Credit in former PUAD 507.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • PPD 570 Applied Statistics for Planning, Policy and Management

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Sm
    Use of statistical reasoning to answer questions related to public policy and management. Students will review and understand selected statistical techniques for analyzing data and for addressing public policy and management questions of interest using applied data analysis.
    Duplicates Credit in former PUAD 523.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • PPD 571 International Public Policy and Management Seminar

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Fa
    An introduction to the concepts and methods of public policy analysis and management. Highlights some of the constraints of the policy process. Includes examples from the United States but also presents comparative views of the contours of public policy in both developed and developing nations. The course applies public policy and management frameworks to selected areas of social policy.
    Duplicates Credit in former PUAD 524.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • PPD 572 Special Issues in International Public Policy

    Units: 1, 2, 3, 4
    Max Units: 12.0
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    Current international public policy on issues such as governmental reform, regulation, social welfare, poverty alleviation and international aid. Policy framework and in-depth analysis of specific topics of relevance to governmental agencies and international organizations.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • PPD 582 Transportation System Security and Emergency Management

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    (Enroll in CE 582 )
  

  • PPD 587 Risk Analysis

    Units: 4
    Concepts of risk analysis, risk in engineered systems, environmental risk, security risks; fault trees, event trees, risk simulations; risks and decision-making.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

    Crosslisted as ISE 587
  

  • PPD 588 Introduction to Transportation Planning Law

    Units: 3
    (Enroll in CE 579 )
  

  • PPD 589 Port Engineering: Planning and Operations

    Units: 3
    (Enroll in CE 589 )
  

  • PPD 590 Directed Research

    Units: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    Research leading to the master’s degree. Maximum units which may be applied to the degree to be determined by the department.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Credit/No Credit

  

  • PPD 594a Master’s Thesis

    Units: 2
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Credit on acceptance of thesis.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: In-progress to Credit/No Credit

  

  • PPD 594b Master’s Thesis

    Units: 2
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Credit on acceptance of thesis.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: In-progress to Credit/No Credit

  

  • PPD 594z Master’s Thesis

    Units: 0
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Credit on acceptance of thesis.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: In-progress to Credit/No Credit

  

  • PPD 596 Internship for Curricular Practical Training

    Units: 1, 2, 3
    Max Units: 03
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    Part-time or full-time, practical work experience in the student’s field of study. The internship must be located at an off-campus facility. Students are individually supervised by faculty. May not be taken until the student has completed at least one semester of enrollment in the graduate program with a cumulative 3.0 GPA.
    Registration Restriction: Open only to graduate students in the Sol Price School of Public Policy
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Credit/No Credit

  

  • PPD 599 Special Topics

    Units: 2, 3, 4
    Max Units: 8.0
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    Selected topics in public policy, management and planning.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • PPD 600 Management of Managed Care Organizations

    Units: 2
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    Managed care arrangements, interorganizational relations, management practices and controls, medical staff relations, strategic planning, marketing, utilization review, quality assurance, outcomes measures.
    Prerequisite: PPD 545  or HMGT 520 ;
    Recommended Preparation: PPD 516 , PPD 510a  or HMGT 565 .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • PPD 601 Management of Long-Term Care Organizations

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Fa
    History, development, trends; major policy issues; organization of systems; principles and techniques of administration; management of institutional and community based programs.
    Registration Restriction: Open only to graduate students.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • PPD 602 Strategic and Operational Planning for Health Services

    Units: 4, 2 years
    Terms Offered: Fa
    Strategic, institutional, and program planning theory and methods; governmental and legal requirements, certificate of need processes, reimbursement controls; financing and marketing considerations, practices, and methods.
    Duplicates Credit in former PUAD 535.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • PPD 603 Marketing of Health Services

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Sm
    Assessing community needs and organizational service capabilities; evaluating competition; qualitative and quantitative market research methods; market communications and advertising; developing marketing plans.
    Recommended Preparation: PPD 502  or competence in statistics.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • PPD 604 Seminar in Hospital Administration

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Sm
    Hospital systems and functions; managerial processes, theory, and practice; governance structures; legal, regulatory, administrative, and professional requirements; medical and professional staff; multi-institutional arrangements; controls.
    Prerequisite: PPD 545  or HMGT 520 ;
    Recommended Preparation: PPD 516 .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • PPD 605 Frontline Issues in Health Services Administration and Policy

    Units: 2
    Max Units: 6.0
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    Emphasis on current or emergent issues in the health care industry. Focus on impact of recent health legislation and/or health care system responsiveness.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • PPD 606 Urban Health Policy

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Fa
    Addresses current U.S. health policy issues and the critical processes that shape them, with an emphasis on urban populations; institutional, economic, social, ethical, and political factors.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • PPD 607 Introduction to Public Health Policy

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Sp
    Public health policy and analysis methods; evaluation of the public health system and safety net programs.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • PPD 608 Leadership Symposium in Health Management and Policy

    Units: 1
    Max Units: 3.0
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    A forum for leading executives and policymakers to address ways they or their organizations improve healthcare financing, delivery and management, in the U.S. and internationally.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • PPD 609 Physician Practice Management

    Units: 2
    Terms Offered: Sp
    Overview of medical practice management issues, structures, systems and strategies for effective clinical and financial performance of physician organizations.
    Recommended Preparation: PPD 509 .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • PPD 610 Managed Care Contracting

    Units: 2
    Terms Offered: Fa
    Provides practical and strategic decision-making skills in managed care contracting, including contract types, terms and conditions; financial assessment; proposal development and analysis; and negotiation.
    Prerequisite: PPD 600 ;
    Recommended Preparation: PPD 510a  or HMGT 565 , PPD 514 .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • PPD 611 Policy Issues in Planning and Development

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Fa
    Overview of policy issues in planning and development professions in the U.S. and abroad. Special attention to collective decision making, role of institutions, and ethics.
    Duplicates Credit in former PLUS 503.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • PPD 612 Research and Analytical Techniques

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Sp
    Professional practice-oriented analytic skill; fundamentals of data manipulation; spreadsheet applications and forecasting; and communication of results.
    Duplicates Credit in former PLUS 504.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • PPD 613a Policy, Planning, and Development International Laboratory

    Units: 1
    Max Units: 0.0
    Terms Offered: SpSm
    Research methods for intensive practical field research and evaluation; policy, management and planning practice in intercultural contexts; preparation for professional-level consulting abroad.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • PPD 613b Policy, Planning, and Development International Laboratory

    Units: 3
    Max Units: 6.0
    Terms Offered: SpSm
    Research methods for intensive practical field research and evaluation; policy, management and planning practice in intercultural contexts; preparation for professional-level consulting abroad.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • PPD 614 Management in Planning Practice

    Units: 2 or 4, 2 years
    Terms Offered: Sp
    Administrative, management, political, and other problems faced by the practicing professional planner.
    Duplicates Credit in former PLUS 521.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • PPD 615 Comparative Urbanization, Development, and Inequality

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Irregular
    Theories of inequality, dependency and dualism in relation to urbanization, growth, and poverty in developing countries; development and underdevelopment; core-periphery linkages.
    Duplicates Credit in former PLUS 534.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • PPD 616 Participatory Methods in Planning and Policy

    Units: 4
    Approaches to community participation, introducing students to the theories behind participatory methods as well as to the skills to implement them.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • PPD 617 Urban Demography and Growth

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Fa
    Theory and policy regarding population change in urban areas; housing; cohort analysis; immigration; ethnicity; employment; education. Methods of graphic representation; census data manipulation, interpretation, forecasting.
    Duplicates Credit in former PLUS 539.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • PPD 618 Housing Facilities and Community Development

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Irregular
    Structure of the building industry and technology. Housing markets and programs; environmental standards. Community development and redevelopment. Planning, program development, finance, and coordination of public facilities and services.
    Duplicates Credit in former PLUS 540.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • PPD 619 Smart Growth and Urban Sprawl: Policy Debates and Planning Solutions

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Irregular
    Determinants and analytical models of land use; interaction of land uses with environmental quality and natural resources, land use policy instruments; regulation, taxation, public services.
    Duplicates Credit in former PLUS 562.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • PPD 620 General Plans

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Fa
    Assessment of a recently adopted general plan, analysis of the general plan process, and detailed review of each major element and issue.
    Duplicates Credit in former PLUS 563.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • PPD 621 Environmental Impacts

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Sp
    Legal, political/institutional, and technical aspects of environmental impact reports for urban planning.
    Duplicates Credit in former PLUS 561.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • PPD 622 Seminar in Urban Development

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Irregular
    Central city housing and renewal problems and policies. Site selection, organization; land valuation, acquisition, disposition; relocation and management; reuse; site planning and development; politics; financing.
    Duplicates Credit in former PLUS 541.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • PPD 623 Community Development and Site Planning

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Sp
    Urban form and emerging community design practices; design project development; evaluation and assessment of site planning in cities and local communities.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • PPD 624 Local Economic Development: Theory and Finance

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Sp
    Socioeconomic change, economic development theory, assessment techniques, and economic indicators in the context of planning and development policies and programs.
    Duplicates Credit in former PLUS 547.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • PPD 625 Planning and Economic Development Finance

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Fa
    Fundamentals for economic development professionals and policy makers including feasibility analysis and the financing of facilities, social services, and community-based enterprises.
    Duplicates Credit in former PLUS 546.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • PPD 626 Public/Private and Mixed Enterprises Planning

    Units: 2, 4
    Terms Offered: SpFa
    Case studies of planning and public/private and mixed enterprises; public production of private goods; privatization of public services; public/private partnerships; mixed enterprises.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • PPD 627 Design Skills for Urban Planners

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Fa
    Develop observation, description, analysis, and conceptualization skills related to urban spatial conditions; advance professional communication proficiencies.
    Duplicates Credit in former PLUS 573.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • PPD 628 Urban Planning and Social Policy

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Irregular
    Urban planning and social work: theory, values, techniques of inquiry, and problem-solving methods appropriate to urban planning and social work.
    Duplicates Credit in former PLUS 552.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • PPD 630 Urban Economic Analysis

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Sp
    Economic models of cities and city development and structure; housing and land markets; transportation systems; problems of congestion and pollution; evaluation of urban policies.
    Duplicates Credit in former PLUS 566.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • PPD 631 Geographic Information Systems for Policy, Planning, and Development

    Units: 2
    Introduction to GIS systems and usage in the public sector; spatial data; understanding software and the application of technology; analysis of data using GIS.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • PPD 632 Planning Analysis and Evaluation

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Sp
    Methods of policy, program, and plan evaluation: economic principles and theoretical concepts introduced, followed by case studies.
    Duplicates Credit in former PLUS 574.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • PPD 633 Urban Transportation Planning and Management

    Units: 4, 2 years
    Terms Offered: Fa
    Background applications of established urban travel forecasting procedures; land use; trip-generation, trip-distribution, modal-choice, trip-assignment; evaluation; criticisms.
    Duplicates Credit in former PLUS 580.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

    Crosslisted as CE-633
  

  • PPD 634 Institutional and Policy Issues in Transportation

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Sp
    Analysis of policies relating to transportation alternatives; institutional environment and background; federal, state, regional, and local agency responsibilities and interactions.
    Duplicates Credit in former PLUS 581.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

    Crosslisted as CE-634
  

  • PPD 635 Principles of Transportation Systems Analysis

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Fa
    Planning, design, modeling, and operation of inter- and intra-urban transportation networks. Analysis of contemporary engineering-economic issues relevant to transport, especially questions pertaining to infrastructure.
    Duplicates Credit in former PLUS 582.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • PPD 636 Infrastructure and Modern Society

    Units: 2
    Terms Offered: Sp
    Survey of infrastructure issues that relates principles from multiple disciplines to the provision of vital services and encourages critical thinking within a systems context.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • PPD 637 Forecasting and Urban Planning: A Survey of Theory and Methods

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Sp
    Overview of forecasting methods and applications in urban planning processes used to determine urban futures; includes theoretical and institutional factors as well as quantitative methods.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • PPD 638 Integrative Seminar

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    Individual research and preparation of an integrated comprehensive study coordinated with a sponsor such as a government agency or development firm.
    Prerequisite: PPD 611 , PPD 612 .
    Duplicates Credit in former PLUS 591.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • PPD 639 Introduction to Community and Economic Development

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Theories of community and economic development and a contextual understanding of the forces that change the development and community life of urban areas.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • PPD 640 Leadership Foundations: Competencies and Core Values

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Sm
    An intensive introduction to leading through core values. Focuses on developing leadership skills at the personal level to build a foundation for leadership at all levels.
    Registration Restriction: Open only to Executive Master in Leadership students.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • PPD 641 Leading Individuals, Groups and Teams

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Fa
    Leadership styles in various settings; team demographics, and dynamics; problem-solving; decision-making; diversity and critical thinking skills; effect of culture on small group communication; managing conflict.
    Prerequisite: PPD 640 .
    Registration Restriction: Open only to Executive Master in Leadership students.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • PPD 642 Strategic Leadership of Organizations

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Sp
    Strategic analysis; strategic planning; leadership; performance measurement and management; control systems; organizational structure and networks; organizational culture; organizational learning and change.
    Prerequisite: PPD 641 .
    Registration Restriction: Open only to Executive Master in Leadership students.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • PPD 643 Leading Transformations Across Sectors: Integrative Seminar

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Sm
    Application and practice of leadership skills working across the public, private and nonprofit sectors. Skills include negotiation, collaboration, communication, political management and ethical responsibilities.
    Prerequisite: PPD 642 .
    Registration Restriction: Open only to Executive Master in Leadership students.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • PPD 644 Shaping the Built Environment

    Units: 4
    Introduction to the theories and concepts and good city form. Explores the options for designing more livable and sustainable urban communities.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

 

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