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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 645 Professional Development

    Units: 1, 2, 3, 4
    Max Units: 8.0
    Terms Offered: Irregular
    Selected topics in the practical application of administrative concepts.
    Duplicates Credit in former PUAD 502.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Credit/No Credit

  

  • PPD 646 Fieldwork

    Units: 1, 2, 3, 4
    Max Units: 8.0
    Terms Offered: Sp
    Supervised study of management activities in governmental agencies.
    Duplicates Credit in former PUAD 503.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Credit/No Credit

  

  • PPD 647 Finance of the Public Sector

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Sp
    Sources of government revenue, intergovernmental financial relations, budgeting, public goods theory. Theoretical and applied skills in analysis of equity and efficiency issues.
    Prerequisite: PPD 501b .
    Duplicates Credit in former PUAD 513.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • PPD 648 Concepts and Practices of Public Budgeting

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Irregular
    Budget planning, budget formulation, tools for budget analysis and budget implementation.
    Duplicates Credit in former PUAD 515.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • PPD 649 Concepts and Practices in Public Personnel Administration

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: FaSm
    Concepts of man and of work; workforce; government personnel systems, including merit concepts, classification, and compensation; collective bargaining; organizational justice; training and development.
    Duplicates Credit in former PUAD 516.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • PPD 650 Organization Development in Public Administration

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Overview of concepts and methodologies of organization development; diagnosing organizational needs; developing change strategies; selecting appropriate interventions.
    Duplicates Credit in former PUAD 517.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • PPD 651 Seminar in the Administration of Local Government

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Irregular
    Intensive consideration of the functions of the municipal executive and his environment. Research preparation and discussion of cases.
    Duplicates Credit in former PUAD 520.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • PPD 652 Financial Administration in Local Government

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Irregular
    Revenue sources, fees and charges, benefit assessments; financing economic development and redevelopment, issuing and managing debt, current asset management, and state-local relations.
    Duplicates Credit in former PUAD 521.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • PPD 653 Training in the Public Sector

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Fa
    Emergence of public service training; learning theories; program development process — assessing needs, design, delivery, and evaluation; role of media; individual, group, organization development; managing training.
    Duplicates Credit in former PUAD 522.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • PPD 654 Information Technology Management in the Public Sector

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    Application of computer and information technology in government; e-government; information technology architecture; systems project management.
    Duplicates Credit in former PPD 518.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • PPD 655 Administrative Law and Public Management

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    Administrative perspectives on legal principles of agency rule-making and adjudication; distinctions between the two; informal administrative actions; decision-making; judicial review; public control of administrative decisions.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • PPD 656 Political Management: Theory and Applied Techniques

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Sm
    Political management theories; strategy formation; research and data collection approaches; computer applications; electronic databases; issue management; problem-solving techniques; ethical considerations.
    Duplicates Credit in former PUAD 545.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • PPD 657 Political Leadership in Public Organizations

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Sp
    Concepts and skills for public executives and senior managers; understanding the dynamics of governmental institutions and policy processes; organizational and personal assessment skills.
    Duplicates Credit in former PUAD 546.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • PPD 658 Advocacy in Public Administration

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Fa
    Perspectives on advocacy in the policy process; practice of advocacy; accessing the policy process; simulation of the advocacy process; ethical considerations.
    Duplicates Credit in former PUAD 547.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • PPD 659 National Security Administration and the Domestic and International Environment

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Irregular
    Interplay of domestic and international environments; resultant constraints upon national security program administration; administrative and organizational implications for future scenarios.
    Duplicates Credit in former PUAD 549.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • PPD 660 Local Agency Debt and Cash Administration

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Irregular
    Overview of methods of debt and cash administration including official statement analysis; mechanics of different types of issues; and cash management principles.
    Duplicates Credit in former PUAD 550.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • PPD 661 Intergovernmental Management: Local Perspective

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Fa
    Role of city, special district, and metropolitan governments in intergovernmental relations; intergovernmental impacts on local policy process and service delivery; management problems and alternatives.
    Duplicates Credit in former PUAD 552.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • PPD 662 Intergovernmental Management: State Perspective

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Role of state government in intergovernmental relations, emphasis on California experience; financial aspects of intergovernmental system.
    Duplicates Credit in former PUAD 553.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • PPD 663 Intergovernmental Management: Federal Perspective

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Irregular
    Role of national government in intergovernmental process; impact of federal legislative, executive, and judicial actions on state and local government; intergovernmental policy-making process.
    Duplicates Credit in former PUAD 554.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • PPD 664 Contract Management

    Units: 2
    Terms Offered: Sp
    Contract management techniques in the public and private sectors; micro and macro management; compliance and negotiation; conflicts of interest and ethical issues.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • PPD 665 Contemporary Issues in Philanthropy

    Units: 4
    Motivations and strategies of philanthropists; philanthropic foundations and emerging institutions for philanthropy; issues of philanthropic stewardship, public policy and public accountability.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • PPD 666 Administrative Research and Analysis

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Irregular
    Theory and methods for study of administrative effectiveness: problem solving, performance measurement, administrative and organizational research, quality improvement, and change implementation.
    Prerequisite: PPD 502 .
    Duplicates Credit in former PUAD 506.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • PPD 667 Public Ethics

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Sp
    Following an introduction to the study of ethics, relationships among administrative, political and policy ethics are examined, emphasizing the ethics of the administrative role.
    Duplicates Credit in former PUAD 560.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • PPD 668 Entrepreneurship in the Public Sector

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Irregular
    Providing public services through the private and nonprofit sectors; public-private partnerships; political and organizational skills required for public entrepreneurship.
    Duplicates Credit in former PUAD 561.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • PPD 669 Federal Management Systems

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Principal institutions and processes in federal government for overhead leadership and control; examines Office of Management and Budget, Office of Personnel Management, Merit Systems Protection Board, General Services Administration, and General Accounting Office.
    Duplicates Credit in former PUAD 564.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • PPD 670 Management of Intergovernmental Programs

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Sp
    Analysis of relationships among governmental units in delivery of governmental programs; historical development of intergovernmental relations; present status and future implications.
    Duplicates Credit in former PUAD 566.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • PPD 671 Decision-Making in Regulatory Agencies

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Irregular
    Risk assessment, management, and communication concepts and practices; comparisons of regulatory decision making in regulatory agencies; emerging benefit assessment, cost-effectiveness, and communication issues.
    Duplicates Credit in former PUAD 567.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • PPD 672 Presidency, Congress, and the Bureaucracy

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: SpSm
    Relationships in national government among political executive, legislative, and administrative units; reviews institutions, formal processes, and political dynamics.
    Duplicates Credit in former PUAD 568.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • PPD 673 Strategic Planning in the Public Sector

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Sp
    Analysis/field application of action research models for strategic planning in public agencies; design of effective public systems; citizens/administrators’ roles in strategic decision-making.
    Duplicates Credit in former PUAD 574.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • PPD 674 Science, Technology, and Government

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Irregular
    Impact of science/technology on governmental policy, processes, institutions; critical policy areas in science/technology; machinery for formulating science policy; governmental impact on science/technology.
    Duplicates Credit in former PUAD 575.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • PPD 675 Nonprofit Management and Leadership

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    Issues in nonprofit management and leadership including: the role of boards; strategic planning; marketing and fund-raising; financial management; and volunteer and human resource management.
    Recommended Preparation: PPD 689 .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • PPD 676 Comparative Public Administration

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Irregular
    Methodologies, theories and models of comparison; administrative systems; role and functions of the public sector; administrative cultures.
    Duplicates Credit in former PUAD 579.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • PPD 677 International Development Administration

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Sp
    Development of theories; role of international institutions in resource exchanges; foreign investment and trade policies; national planning and allocation systems; development and modernization strategies and implementation.
    Duplicates Credit in former PUAD 581.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • PPD 678 Processes of Change in Developing Societies

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Irregular
    Nature of traditional and transitional societies; theories and practice of developmental change; role of bureaucracy in development; institution building; public enterprise; technology assessment and transfer.
    Duplicates Credit in former PUAD 582.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • PPD 679 Financial Administration in Developing Countries

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Sm
    Public sector finance; tax policy and administration; budgeting and auditing; debt management; public enterprise and development banks; planning; techniques; project assessment.
    Duplicates Credit in former PUAD 583.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • PPD 680 Development of Effective Groups and Organizations

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Fa
    Theories and techniques of assessing and improving interpersonal relationships and group dynamics in an organizational context; action research-based approaches to implementing organizational change.
    Duplicates Credit in former PUAD 586.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • PPD 681 Public Organization and Management Theory

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Nature and management of public organizations; examination of organizational characteristics, forms, and processes, including the relationship with the broader environment.
    Duplicates Credit in former PUAD 595.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • PPD 682 Justice Administration: A Management Perspective

    Units: 4, 2 years
    Terms Offered: Fa
    Justice administration as an interactive system: law, etiology of crime, police, the judiciary and corrections. Interface of offenders with community and political force fields.
    Duplicates Credit in former PUAD 540.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • PPD 683 Homeland Security and Public Policy

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Definition and history of terrorism, counterterrorism, domestic policy and public sector management; intelligence/information sharing and analysis; emergency preparedness planning, response and recovery.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • PPD 684 Leadership Development in the Public and Nonprofit Sectors

    Units: 2
    Terms Offered: Fa
    An overview of leadership concepts, frameworks and skills; application of leadership in complex or inter-sectoral settings.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • PPD 685 Human Resources Management in Public and Non-Profit Sectors

    Units: 2
    Terms Offered: Fa
    Merit principles, position classification, recruitment and selection, compensation, organizational development, labor relations; challenges and strategies for managing a diverse workforce.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • PPD 686 U.S. Immigration Policy

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Sp
    Overall understanding of contemporary U.S. immigration policy.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • PPD 687 Strategic Management in the Nonprofit Sector

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Sp
    Strategic management of nonprofit organizations, social entrepreneurship, and management practice.
    Prerequisite: PPD 675  and PPD 689 .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • PPD 688 Business and Public Policy

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Irregular
    The business-government relationship; effects of selected public policies (antitrust, economic, and social regulation, industrial policies, legal policy) on firm and industry behavior.
    Prerequisite: PPD 501b .
    Duplicates Credit in former PUAD 557.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • PPD 689 The Nonprofit Sector and Philanthropy

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Nonprofit organizations and their relation to government and business; the role of philanthropy, social enterprise and public support; and implications for policy, strategy and management.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • PPD 690 Alternative Dispute Resolution

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Fa
    Theory and methods of conflict analysis, negotiation, facilitation and mediation in the public sector.
    Duplicates Credit in former PUAD 519.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • PPD 692 Transportation and the Environment

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Sp
    Analysis of the benefits and costs of urban transportation; concepts of social costs; benefits and externalities; environmental costs; social justice issues; policy and planning alternatives for sustainable transportation.
    Prerequisite: PPD 501a .
    Duplicates Credit in former PPD 584.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

    Crosslisted as CE-692
  

  • PPD 693 Communicating Public Policy

    Units: 4
    Exploring the complex relationships that exist among policies, policymakers, and the media; analyzing the role of journalists and policy analysts in the public policy process.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • PPD 694 Coastal Policy and Planning

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Sp
    Coastal management issues in the context of public and private users competing for land resources, the costs and benefits of seaports, compare coastal development models.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • PPD 695 Clinical Issues for Managers

    Units: 1
    Terms Offered: Fa
    Introduces key information and concepts for managers of clinical services. Examines problems and issues facing health care managers and clinician relations.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • PPD 696 Health Care Venture Development

    Units: 2
    Terms Offered: SpSm
    Focuses on developing the resourcefulness, know-how and decision support skills needed to identify, assess and develop new health ventures. Includes business planning, financing, strategy, entrepreneurship.
    Recommended Preparation: PPD 510a  or HMGT 565 .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • PPD 697 Cultural Proficiency in Health Management and Policy

    Units: 2
    Terms Offered: Sp
    Provides an understanding of what social factors contribute to racial/ethnic, socioeconomic, and gender disparities in health and the culturally proficient provision of health care.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • PPD 698 Strategic Management and Change

    Units: 4
    Theory and applied skills in management of social sector organizations with applications in international settings. Strategic management and planning; communication strategies, marketing and promotion; leadership skills; organizational development and change.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • PPD 700 Teaching Seminar

    Units: 2
    Pedagogy: learning objectives, curriculum design, teaching methods, evaluation.
    Duplicates Credit in former PPD 700ab.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Credit/No Credit

  

  • PPD 706 Paradigms of Research and the Design of Inquiry

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Philosophy of social science; applied social research; research design; sampling and validity; overview of qualitative and quantitative methods.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • PPD 707 Survey Research Methods

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Sp
    Collection and use of survey data: basic orientation, mechanics of using SAS, and interpretation of survey tabulations.
    Prerequisite: PPD 525 .
    Duplicates Credit in former PLUS 608.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • PPD 708 Qualitative Methods

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Sp
    Reflective and critical approach that questions data collection techniques, positions relative to those being studied, and explanatory methods.
    Recommended Preparation: PPD 525  or PPD 612 .
    Duplicates Credit in former PLUS 609.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • PPD 709 Applications in the Advanced Quantitative Methods

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Sp
    Statistical and econometric modeling in real estate finance, urban economics, public policy, and planning research. Building, estimating and adjusting models for real-world.
    Prerequisite: PPD 525 .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • PPD 710a Research Seminar

    Units: 2
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Research fields and design; literature reviews; critical reading and critiquing; project development.
    Prerequisite: PPD 706 .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Credit/No Credit

  

  • PPD 710b Research Seminar

    Units: 2
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Research fields and design; literature reviews; critical reading and critiquing; project development.
    Prerequisite: PPD 706 .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Credit/No Credit

  

  • PPD 711 Theoretical Foundation of Public Management

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Fa
    Theories of the role, structure, and growth of the public sector; political economy of public bureaucracies; the voluntary nonprofit sector.
    Prerequisite: PPD 501b .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • PPD 712 Seminar in Public Policy

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Fa
    Critical analysis of the policy field; theoretical foundations; integration of quantitative, organizational, and political considerations; policy research.
    Prerequisite: PPD 501b , PPD 554 .
    Duplicates Credit in former PUAD 626.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • PPD 713 Advanced Planning Theory

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Fa
    Positive and normative attitudes of public plans, policies, programs, organizational and institutional settings; policy analysis; modeling of social choices; evaluation; applied welfare analysis; performance assessment.
    Duplicates Credit in former PLUS 605.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • PPD 714 Advanced Urban Development

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Fa
    Urbanization, urban economics, land use, the politics of growth, governance, regulation, and the state, immigration, and place promotion.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • PPD 715 Political Economy and Institutional Analysis

    Units: 4
    Institutional dimension of political economy; analytic approaches in institutional analysis and their relevance for understanding the interactions between political and economic factors in public-sector issues.
    Prerequisite: PPD 501a .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • PPD 790 Research

    Units: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
    Max Units: 18.0
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    Research leading to the doctorate. Maximum units which may be applied to the degree to be determined by the department.
    Duplicates Credit in former PLUS 790 and PUAD 790.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Credit/No Credit

  

  • PPD 794a Doctoral Dissertation

    Units: 2
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    Credit on acceptance of dissertation.
    Duplicates Credit in former PLUS 794abcdz and PUAD 794abcdz.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: In-progress to Credit/No Credit

  

  • PPD 794b Doctoral Dissertation

    Units: 2
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    Credit on acceptance of dissertation.
    Duplicates Credit in former PLUS 794abcdz and PUAD 794abcdz.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: In-progress to Credit/No Credit

  

  • PPD 794c Doctoral Dissertation

    Units: 2
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    Credit on acceptance of dissertation.
    Duplicates Credit in former PLUS 794abcdz and PUAD 794abcdz.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: In-progress to Credit/No Credit

  

  • PPD 794d Doctoral Dissertation

    Units: 2
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    Credit on acceptance of dissertation.
    Duplicates Credit in former PLUS 794abcdz and PUAD 794abcdz.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: In-progress to Credit/No Credit

  

  • PPD 794z Doctoral Dissertation

    Units: 0
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    Credit on acceptance of dissertation.
    Duplicates Credit in former PLUS 794abcdz and PUAD 794abcdz.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: In-progress to Credit/No Credit

  

  • PPD 795 Law of the Political Process

    Units: 2, 3, 4
    Max Units: max 8
    (Enroll in LAW 795 )
  

  • PPD 797 Public Policy in Law: Analysis and Advocacy

    Units: 1, 2, 3, 4
    (Enroll in LAW 797 )

Policy, Planning, and Development — Expanded
  

  • PPDE 580 Social Innovation

    Units: 4
    Strategies and processes of social innovation in the context of economics, institutional, and innovation theory. How social innovation materializes across all sectors, including the government, nonprofit, and for-profit spheres. Critical thinking and practical application development to solve social problems.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • PPDE 589 Public Policy and Administration in the European Union, Germany, and the United States

    Units: 6
    Terms Offered: Sm
    Governance issues from a comparative perspective with a special focus on the US, Germany and the European Union.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • PPDE 610 Population Health Management

    Units: 2
    Terms Offered: Sm
    Principles and concepts of population health management; application of key principles that drive health and well being of populations; development and evaluation of strategies in management of disease and prevention of illness.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • PPDE 628 Introduction to Lean Health Care

    Units: 2
    Performance improvement methods and principles in health care; how Lean, Six-Sigma, and Human Centered Design (HCD) methodologies are applied to health care organizations to improve quality and efficiency.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • PPDE 629 Transitional Care and Hospital Readmission Prevention

    Units: 2
    Alternatives within the healthcare delivery system beyond the acute hospital; how social, medical and financial determinants provide alternatives to acute care and impact a patient’s disposition; Hospital Readmission Penalty Program; effect of the Affordable Care Act of 2010 on patient care.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • PPDE 630 Community Health Planning

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Sp
    The role of planning in sustaining community health; examines relationship between health and environment; historical development, conceptualization and practice of community health planning.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • PPDE 631 Public Space: Theory, Policy, and Design

    Units: 4
    Examination of contemporary issues and practices in the design, production, and uses of public space in a comparative perspective; implications for future design and public policy.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • PPDE 632 Sustainable Cities

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Exploration of environmental problems linked to urbanization, drawing on historical analysis, social theory, scientific research, and city planning/design practice. Alternative policy options for urban sustainability.
    Duplicates Credit in the former GEOG 601.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • PPDE 633 Communicating City Design: Positions and Representations

    Units: 2
    Communicating the processes, products, and concepts of city design; merging theoretical and skill-based exercises for effective communication; verbal and graphic communication; physical components of urban landscape and dimensional attributes.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • PPDE 634 Methodology, Methods and Tools for Urban Sustainability

    Units: 2, 3, 4
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Methodology, assessment and planning methods for urban sustainability and land use planning; how the choice and use of theory and methods impact the planning process; systems and spatial analysis.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • PPDE 635 Housing and Land Use in Rapidly Urbanizing Regions

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Fa
    Interdisciplinary approach to conceptualize urban land and property rights; property rights strategies; design and policy interventions; the struggle for rights to space in the city.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • PPDE 636 Urban Spatial Ethnography and Critical Cartography

    Units: 4
    Theories and methods of how to develop original data about, analyze, and produce visualizations of urban space; conventional conceptualization and representations of cities and urban spatial data.
    Recommended Preparation: PPD 631   or other GIS course work
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • PPDE 637 Urban Mass Transit

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Fa
    Fundamentals of urban mass transit planning. Topics include the fiscal context of mass transit planning, fares and farebox recovery, ridership forecasts, land development near transit, and transit operations, scheduling, and network design.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

    Crosslisted as CE 637
  

  • PPDE 644 Land Use and Transportation Planning

    Units: 4
    Key theories of land use — transportation interactions; understanding of land markets and derived-demand approach; use of evidence for information; travel data collection methods; application of land use.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • PPDE 645 Financial Management of Nonprofit Organizations

    Units: 4
    Accounting and financial management principles and practices in nonprofit organizations: budgeting financial analysis, internal controls, financial policies, grant making and financial reporting.
    Duplicates Credit in PPD 541.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • PPDE 646 Grant Writing Practicum

    Units: 2
    Grant making process and proposal development; philanthropic foundations; strategies for funding; budgeting, logic models, and evaluation; peer review.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • PPDE 647 Civic Engagement in Governance

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Sp
    Roles of citizens, civic associations, nonprofit organizations, government and business in democratic governance; civil society as the interface among these entities; techniques, purposes and contexts of civic engagement.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • PPDE 648 Performance Management

    Units: 2
    Concept and practice of performance management; examination of performance measurement; analysis and reporting practices for organizational accountability and improvements; performance design, indicators, utilization of information.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • PPDE 649 International Development NGOs: Theory, Policy and Management Issues

    Units: 4
    Critical issues involved in International Development NGO management; theoretical work and analytical framework to understand organizational features; NGO management, issues and challenges.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • PPDE 660 Environmental Policy Design and Analysis

    Units: 2
    Terms Offered: Sp
    Analytical foundation for design of institutions and policies; environmental policy; welfare economics and market failure; policy evaluation; economic policy instruments; climate change policy issues; other policy issues.
    Prerequisite: PPD 501a ;
    Recommended Preparation: PPD 501b .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • PPDE 661 Methods for Equity Analysis

    Units: 4
    Techniques to measure inequality and segregation. Policy evaluation using techniques for casual inference.
    Prerequisite: PPD 558 .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • PPDE 662 China from a US Policy Perspective

    Units: 4
    Examination of China through the lens of the US federal government; trade issues; economic coordination and stability; environment and sustainability; defense and security; human development.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • PPDE 663 Media for Policy Change

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Sp
    The use of media as an implement of social policy and change at the state and federal level; analysis of social problems and the effect policy practitioners influence on change.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • PPDE 664 Seminar in Social Justice and Public Policy

    Units: 4
    Major theories of social justice in the US and globally; how theories of social justice influence policy, urban planning, and public administration; how to bridge theories about justice for professional practice.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • PPDE 665 Economic Impact Analysis: Methods and Applications

    Units: 2
    Terms Offered: Sp
    Economic models for understanding and measuring impacts of man-made and natural disasters; analysis of public policy initiatives to mitigate environmental threats; model construction and software.
    Prerequisite: PPD 501a 
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • PPDE 668 Applied Econometrics for Program Evaluation

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Application of econometric methods for causal inference. Production and evaluation of empirical estimates of causal relationships to inform evidence-based policy decisions.
    Prerequisite: PPD 558 
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • PPDE 680 Board Governance and Leadership

    Units: 2
    Governance of nonprofit organizations; responsibilities and expectations of boards; board effectiveness; and changes in governance as a result of recent federal and state legislation.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

 

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