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Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy: Programs/Courses


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Programs
(Majors/Minors)
  •  Accelerated Bachelor/MPP  
  •  Master of Public Policy (MPP)  
  •  MPP/JD  
  •  MPP/MBA  
  •  MPP/MPH  
  •  MPP/MUEP  
  •  MPP/PhD  

Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy

Courses

  • PPOL 5025 - Wise Interventions: Social Psychology and Public Policy


    Course will provide an overview of classic and contemporary psychological interventions aimed at improving human welfare. It will examine the role of psychological factors in social reforms in healthcare, the workplace, education, intergroup relations, and other domains. Theory, empirical evidence, policy implications, and policy implementation will be emphasized.



    Credits: 3
  • PPOL 5035 - Leading and Managing Diverse Groups


    This course will focus on interpersonal, organizational, and societal factors leaders must negotiate to lead effectively in socially diverse environments. Students will be exposed to cases and empirical research that will enable them to (1) develop well-articulated positions on diversity-related issues and (2) form strategies to promote sustainable settings for productive exchange among diverse groups of individuals.



    Credits: 3
  • PPOL 5060 - International Financial Institutions


    What are the IFIs and how have they influenced development policy and country outcomes? What factors do internal and external politics play in their operation and the panopoly of international aid efforts? Are groups like “50/60 years in enough” and the Meltzer report right? Come explore IFIs (the IMF, the World Bank, and the Multilateral Development Banks) in a seminar setting examining policy in practice.
    Cross-listed with PLIR 5060.



    Credits: 3

  • PPOL 5200 - Adv Policy & Practice in Humanitarian Assistance: Critical Case Studies


    Course will use experiential learning and a case study approach that leads students to directly engage on a selection of the most pressing global humanitarian policies and operational practices being debated and developed. It will allow students to gain and practice critical leadership and management skills that are essential in crisis contexts, but also applicable to the aspiring consultant, public policy practitioner, and development worker.



    Credits: 3
  • PPOL 5225 - uAcademy for Conscious Change


    An experiential learning course and social venture incubator integrating and applying contemplative practice, mindful leadership skills, conscious social change methodologies and social entrepreneurship frameworks in the development of new ideas to solve local and global social issues. The uAcademy provides future change leaders with the skills to invest in their own self-understanding and initiate social change with impact at home and abroad.



    Credits: 3
  • PPOL 5240 - Anti-Terrorism and the Role of Intelligence


    Course examines the intelligence failures prior to 9/11 and the Iraq war, and the critical reports composed after the events, to determine what improvements may be needed to avoid a recurrence and to pre-empt future terrorist attacks against the United States.



    Credits: 3
  • PPOL 5295 - Global Humanitarian Crises: Dilemmas, Leadership, and Action


    Course will look at critical questions defining global humanitarian action and policy. The inability to deliver aid inside Syria, record refugee flows, drought in Ethiopia, brutal conflict in Yemen, are only some of today’s crises. Using historical and critical analysis, case studies, and insights from guest speakers, the foundations, dilemmas, and operations of humanitarian aid will be explored.



    Credits: 3
  • PPOL 5325 - Leadership Implementation Development Policy Nudges


    Exciting new developments in social psychology and from behavioral economics are transforming our understanding of what makes for effective anti-poverty policy in developing as well as developed countries. This seminar course will examine specific anti-poverty policies like chlorinating water and using insecticide-treated bednets, in a series of case studies that illustrate how effective policy requires careful implementation.



    Credits: 3
  • PPOL 5340 - Race and Policy


    This seminar will focus on the challenge that instances of racial injustice pose to political leaders designing policy. Race has offered a set of demonstrable injustices in American history through the present. The list of topics is inexhaustible, and the following list is necessarily limited and imperfect, but instances include slavery, Reconstruction, Jim Crow laws, segregation, class discrimination, and current criminal justice policies.



    Credits: 3
  • PPOL 5345 - Turkey and the USA: Poverty, Politics, and Social Policy


    This course compares social policy in NATO Allies Turkey and the US. Social policy consists of health, education, and social protection (welfare and social security). Turkey and the US have very different social policy environments, reflecting different histories and politics. This seminar will look at a different aspect of poverty, politics, and social policy each week, with one class meeting on the US and one on Turkey. STATA not required.



    Credits: 3
  • PPOL 5350 - NGO Leadership in Public Policy: Best Practices


    NGOs play a growing role in shaping U.S. public policies. Skepticism of federal policymaking has opened opportunities for policy entrepreneurs to challenge well-funded private sector lobbies in shaping the agenda. This seminar will examine tactical options and key case studies to equip future NGO activists. We’ll look at best practices from both national and local NGO campaigns, think tanks and grass roots organizations competing to make policy



    Credits: 3
  • PPOL 5460 - The Politics of the Budgetary Process


    This course examines the politics and processes of federal budgeting, and the role the budget plays in national economic policy making. Topics covered include the historical development of the budget and fiscal policy; the creation of the executive budget; the politics of the budgetary process through appropriations, entitlements, and tax policy; and the relationship between fiscal and monetary policy. Crosslisted with PLAP 5460



    Credits: 3
  • PPOL 5500 - Special Topics


    Courses examine special topics in public policy and/or leadership



    Credits: 3
  • PPOL 5540 - Applied Policy Clinics


    Applied Policy Clinics Topics Course



    Credits: 2
  • PPOL 5550 - Global Field Experience


    Global Field Experience Topics Course



    Credits: 3
  • PPOL 5600 - Education Policy


    Education policy has taken center stage in a variety of national, state and local policy debates. To make sense of the policy process, we will explore the goals of policies and the extent to which the intention, implementation and ultimate effects of the policies align. How can theory and empirical analysis inform our understanding of the best ways for policy to improve outcomes for students?



    Credits: 3
  • PPOL 5660 - Design and Leadership


    The aim of this course is to give students a fundamental and practical understanding of leadership and the role that design plays in exercising leadership and mobilizing the resources of a group. This is a course designed for students currently being educated in the disciplines of architecture, landscape architecture and urban planning. The purpose is to increase significantly one’s individual capacity to sustain the demands of leadership and to



    Credits: 3
  • PPOL 5760 - International Financial Institutions


    What are the IFIs and how have they influenced development policy and country outcomes? What factors do internal and external politics play in their operation and the panopoly of international aid efforts? Are groups like “50/60 years in enough” and the Meltzer report right? Come explore IFIs (the IMF, the World Bank, and the Multilateral Development Banks) in a seminar setting examining policy in practice.



    Credits: 3
  • PPOL 6000 - Political Institutions and Processes


    This class focuses on political strategy from the point of view of participants in American public policy, especially managers, analysts, advocates, and elected officials. The goal of the class is to promote a better understanding of the political and organizational factors involved in policy adoption, choosing among alternatives, gaining acceptance, assuring implementation, and coping with unanticipated consequences.



    Credits: 3
  • PPOL 6050 - Leadership in the Public Arena


    Course provides an introduction to leadership in the public arena. Through course readings, team projects, and discussion of case studies, students will develop skill at identifying the resources, options, and constraints of leaders and followers in different organizational and political settings, writing policy memos, making professional policy presentations, developing negotiation strategies, managing uncertainty and stress, & working in teams.



    Credits: 3
  • PPOL 6080 - Education Policy


    An introductory course in which principles of assessing educational policies are applied to the evidence currently available across a range of policies. Areas of education policy may include early childhood education, charter schools, accountability, teacher recruitment, retention and assessment, and bridging from K-12 to high education. Discussions focus on linking policies to outcomes for students.



    Credits: 3
  • PPOL 6085 - Social Policy in Advanced Economies


    What social programs do governments prioritize? How does social policy shape behavior, and conversely, how does public opinion shape policy? This course will contrast social programs across Europe and North America by considering the welfare state broadly (e.g. how social insurance and social assistance are framed and funded) and specifically (e.g. how policies push Americans to own and Germans to rent).



    Credits: 3
  • PPOL 6100 - Economics of Public Policy I


    This course presents the simplest economic models explaining how individuals and organizations respond to changes in their circumstances and how they interact in markets, and it applies these models to predict the effects of a wide range of government programs. It also analyzes justifications that have been offered for government actions.



    Credits: 3
  • PPOL 6130 - International Economic Policymaking


    American economic interaction with the rest of the world dwarfs U. S. expenditures on diplomatic and security issues. This course will offer an overview of how the U. S. government regulates these economic activities and the relationship between the U. S. government and the private sector. The class will include theory, but will focus heavily on practical, hands-on questions and issues.



    Credits: 3
  • PPOL 6135 - Policy Development in International Humanitarian Assistance


    This course will look at the policy positions that are currently being developed in international humanitarian assistance arena as well as challenge students to learn the professional skills and policy development tools and processes being used by practitioners. Using a real-time case-study approach, students will engage in present day policy questions. The class will also be engaged in a real-time policy assignment.



    Credits: 3
  • PPOL 6150 - Research Methods & Data Analysis I


    The first part of a two-semester sequence in research methods and tools used to evaluate public policies. This course reviews basic mathematics and statistics used by policy analysts, and introduces regression methods for empirical implementation and testing of relations among variables. The purpose of this course is to develop skills that can be used throughout your profession and civic life.



    Credits: 3
  • PPOL 6250 - Policy Analysis


    The purpose of this course is to develop the student’s ability to define and solve public problems. Subsidiary objectives of the course are to help the student to integrate the analytical, political, and leadership skills they have learned in their other MPP courses and improve their ability to work in teams; and hone their written and oral presentation skills. Prerequisites: Graduate student in public policy



    Credits: 3
  • PPOL 6500 - Topics in Public Policy


    Investigates a selected issue in public policy or leadership.



    Credits: 1
  • PPOL 6501 - Topical Workshops in Public Policy and Leadership


    Courses examine public policy and leadership issues in a workshop seminar format - no grade.



    Credits: 0
  • PPOL 6700 - Strategic Thinking at the Organizational Level


    Topics include Conducting an Environmental Scan: What It Is and How To Do It, Strategic Planning: How to Complete a Plan That Will Get Used, Setting Benchmarks and Performance Goals, and Implementing Plan Results.



    Credits: 1
  • PPOL 6710 - Congress 101: Leadership Strategies


    This course will provide a solid foundation of insights into how Congress works, essential for aspiring public policy advocates. Topics investigated include historical precedents for policymaking, the process of Congressional decision-making, and power dynamics in Congress. We will also identify and develop the leadership skills and tactics of successful advocates, placing recent controversies and public policy issues in an historical context.



    Credits: 3
  • PPOL 6715 - Leadership in U.S. Foreign Policy: Best Practices for Advocates


    This graduate seminar examines how contemporary US foreign policymakers proceed under pressures of competing interests. How are Washington policy options shaped for foreign aid, development, trade, and security issues? What leadership skills do crisis management and effective advocacy require? What constitutes best practices for nongovernmental organizations and policy entrepreneurs? How are national interests defined and pursued in Washington?



    Credits: 3
  • PPOL 6720 - Economic Development Policy


    This course will review of the history of development policy advice to lesser developed countries and will examine the most pressing development challenges of the current age including AIDs, urbanization, climate change, disease, and failed states.



    Credits: 3
  • PPOL 6725 - Evaluating Causal Effects of Social Policies


    The goal of this class is to learn how to evaluate the causal effects of social policies. Course will increase understanding of distinctions between correlation and causation through an examination of social policy issues from ‘birth to old age.’ Alternative estimation approaches will be explored. Each policy section will include substantive discussion of current policies and alternatives followed by close readings of social science studies.



    Credits: 3
  • PPOL 6730 - Experiential Social Entrepreneurship


    This graduate course will introduce you to the techniques of and cutting edge research on global advocacy campaigns. At the same time governments are under fiscal austerity pressure to cut budgets, and charitable giving to non-profits is down, this class will therefore also introduce new innovations to solving global problems including social entrepreneurship, social business, and impact investing.



    Credits: 3
  • PPOL 6735 - Politics and Policymaking in European Union


    This graduate course offers an introduction to the history, institutions and politics of the European Union, with an emphasis on policymaking in the EU today. First, the class will review the process of European integration and enlargement since the Treaty of Paris in 1951, including a review of the major theories of European integration. Second, the structure and function of the EU institutions will be introduced.



    Credits: 3
  • PPOL 6745 - Stigma and Social Disparities


    Introduces classic and contemporary theory and research on the social psychology of stigma, primarily from the perspective of the stigmatized. Topics include stigma’s origin and nature, stigma and self-concept, stereotype threat, attributional ambiguity, stigma and social interaction, and implications of stigma for education, health, and life attainment more generally. Provides an overview of this area of psychology and its policy implications. Prerequisites: Graduate Student



    Credits: 3
  • PPOL 6751 - Evidence-based criminal justice policy


    There is widespread interest across the political spectrum in reforming criminal justice policy in the United States. The challenge for policy-makers and practitioners is finding cost-effective strategies to reach their policy goals. In this course we consider the latest economics research on a variety of topics related to the criminal justice system, with the intention of understanding how to make related policies more evidence-based.



    Credits: 3
  • PPOL 6752 - Sustainability Policy Design and Evaluation


    We will discuss how to measure and evaluate the trade-offs related to different environmental policy choices. We will discuss benefit-cost analysis, the impact of decentralization of policies impacting multiple jurisdictions, command and control policies versus tradeable permits, and sustainable development. We will evaluate policies designed to reduce water use and pollution, improve air quality, and reduce greenhouse gas emissions.



    Credits: 3
  • PPOL 6765 - Federal and State Budgeting


    Course will cover the fundamental processes of government budgeting, discussing the role of the office of management and budget and the congressional budget office including how long and short run budget projections and cost estimates of pending legislation are done. We will also address the role of the budget committees, and the congressional budget process including reconciliation. Similar issues at the state level will be covered.



    Credits: 3
  • PPOL 6770 - Development Economics


    This course will investigate the key topics in development economics. There will be strong focus on the importance of evidence based policy making and the design of program evaluation in development projects, and understanding existing research on development policies and programs.



    Credits: 3
  • PPOL 6775 - Federal Regulatory Policy


    This course examines how federal agencies make policy by issuing regulations to implement legislation. It considers administrative procedures that agencies follow in issuing regulations. It explores regulatory policy as an arena where economic and political interests struggle to control the federal bureaucracy. Students learn rulemaking and how to influence regulatory policy. They prepare public comments on proposed federal regulations.



    Credits: 3
  • PPOL 6780 - The US Health Care System


    Students will develop a basic understanding of the structure of the U.S health care system including both the delivery system and financing. Including access problems, cost drivers and quality problems inherent in the current health care system. As well as the underlying structure of the Affordable Care Act including state implementation of the Medicaid program and the creation of state exchanges. Cost containment will also be discussed.



    Credits: 3
  • PPOL 6785 - Global Challenges in Labor and Social Policy


    Examines contemporary labor and social policy debates and challenges facing both developed and emerging economies. Topics include unemployment, social protection policy through taxes and transfers, minimum wages, immigration, inequality, discrimination, human capital and education production. Grounded in economic analysis this course will compare and contrast labor and social policies in the US to those implemented in other countries.



    Credits: 3
  • PPOL 6790 - Health Care Politics and Policy


    This seminar will explore the interplay between politics and policy in the American health care system. Topics include: the history of U.S. health policy; political and policy issues related to Medicare, Medicaid and private insurance; the development and implementation of the Affordable Care Act; public opinion on health issues; and health care spending, cost control and the quality of care, among others issues.



    Credits: 3
  • PPOL 6810 - Virginia Politics and Policy


    What are the most pressing policy problems facing Virginia and how can they be addressed?  Students will learn how the broad historical forces of Virginia’s past, her current political institutions, and changing social divisions shape public policy in Virginia today.  Student projects will focus on current and future challenges facing the Commonwealth and develop strategies to address them.



    Credits: 3
  • PPOL 7001 - Math Camp


    Students will review fundamental math concepts in preparation for the MPP degree.



    Credits: 0
  • PPOL 7005 - The Science of Self-Regulation and Decision Making


    Self-regulation is the management of social, cognitive, and motivational resources in goal pursuit. It is critical to understanding psychological processes (e.g., self control, decision-making) and influencing economic & health behavior (40% of US deaths involve self-reg. failures). Via in-depth reading and discussion of the science of self-regulation, researchers will aim to generate new ideas, and MPPs to inform policy analysis and solutions



    Credits: 3
  • PPOL 7010 - The Political and Moral Dimensions of Public Policy


    The philosophical dimension of the course stresses that all public policy involves making choices among conflicting values, and that such normative tradeoffs apply both at the institutional level and at the level of policy itself. The course serves as a natural venue for discussions of the professional ethics of being a leader or policymaker.



    Credits: 3
  • PPOL 7015 - Advanced Development Policy


    Examines theories and policy debates particularly relevant to developing and transition economies. Class will discuss the standard theories of development economics as well as how those theories - and existing policies - are challenged by current trends in the global economy. Particular focus is placed on the macro and micro-economic challenges facing governments in developing countries, and the int’l institutions that attempt to assist them.



    Credits: 3
  • PPOL 7020 - Macroeconomic Policy


    Course examines how the macroeconomy finds equilibrium where aggregate supply equals aggregate demand. Lectures will examine fiscal policy, monetary policy, and the use of economic reasoning to understand the performance of national economies. Students will gain an appreciation for how the current global economic recession happened and why some policy intervensions have been more effective than others.



    Credits: 3
  • PPOL 7025 - Values-Based Leadership


    The goal of this course is to create, develop, and enhance leadership skills. I will focus on ways in which leaders must recognize and respond to a variety of competing value propositions both within and outside their organizations. This class explores how to take disparate value propositions of various stakeholders and integrate them into a coherent vision.



    Credits: 3
  • PPOL 7030 - Environmental Policy: Design, Implementation and Evaluation


    This class will use the theory of environmental problems to analyze environmental policy. We will emphasize: 1) policy design based on an understanding of the cause of the problem, 2) the costs of implementation, compliance, monitoring, and enforcement, and 3) techniques for evaluating environmental policy including cost-benefit analysis, and other tools.



    Credits: 3
  • PPOL 7035 - Benefit-Cost Analysis


    This course teaches 1) quantitative estimation of the benefits and costs of policy interventions, 2) the identification of deficiencies in published benefit-cost analyses (BCA), and 3) recognition of policy arenas where BCA may be problematic. The course covers the theory and historical use of BCA, and techniques to address uncertainty, benefits in the distant future, interventions that both raise and lower risks, and distributional impacts.



    Credits: 3
  • PPOL 7040 - Business and Public Policy


    This course uses theoretical frameworks and applied case studies to study how businesses affect (and are affected by) public policy choices. Students learn how activists and business leaders overcome obstacles presented by the media, public interest groups, regulatory agencies, lobbyists, legislatures, the international business environment, and a variety of other governmental and non-governmental organizations.



    Credits: 3
  • PPOL 7045 - Game Theory: Applications and Experiments


    Game theory is the analytic study of strategic interactions among individuals, firms, governments, or other groups of people. Game theory has been widely used in economics, management, political science, and public policy. This course demonstrates the usefulness of this powerful analytic approach, through numerous real-world and scholarly applications and through an examination of lab experiments built upon game theoretic modeling techniques.



    Credits: 3
  • PPOL 7050 - The National Security Process


    This seminar will cover the national security process in the US from the passage of the National Security Act of 1947 to the present. It will cover important national security movements and moments such as containment of the Soviet Union after the Kennan “Long Telegram,” the onset of CIA-mounted covert action, the passage of the National Security Act Amendment of 1949, the Bay of Pigs, and Osama bin Laden and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.



    Credits: 3
  • PPOL 7055 - Strategies and Processes of Negotiation


    This course examines the art and science of negotiation. The science of negotiation involves learning to recognize the structure of a conflict situation and knowing what techniques tend to be most effective given that structure. Because there is no substitute for negotiating experience, this class will rely heavily on role-playing exercises and analyses designed to help students develop their own styles and learning the art of negotiation.



    Credits: 3
  • PPOL 7065 - Drug Abuse Control Policy


    The abuse of psychoactive drugs can damage drug users and lead them to damage other people. Policies aimed at controlling drug abuse-especially drug prohibition and its enforcement-generate harms of their own. What set of policies toward currently legal drugs such as alcohol and tobacco and currently illegal drugs such as cocaine, marijuana, methamphetamine, and heroin would minimize the total social damage from drug abuse and drug abuse control?



    Credits: 3
  • PPOL 7075 - Global Leadership


    What does it mean to be a global leader? Global leaders think globally and act globally, think globally and act locally, or think locally and act globally. What additional knowledge and leadership skills are necessary for successful performance of those roles? After considering the analytical dimensions of global leadership, the course will discuss a series of cases of global leadership, including both successful and unsuccessful examples.



    Credits: 3
  • PPOL 7110 - Economics of Public Policy II


    Prepares students to apply economic analysis to public policy problems. Topics include externalities, industry regulation, and policy problems of allocating resources over time. Examples will show a broad range of substantive applications to domestic and international policymaking.



    Credits: 3
  • PPOL 7115 - Public Economics


    This course builds on the core Master of Public Policy economics sequence in examining the role of government in the economy. We will study several policy issues related to taxation and government spending in depth. Topics may include: Tax reform, Social Security, welfare, healthcare, unemployment insurance, education, criminal justice policy, and fiscal federalism. Prerequisite: PPOL 6100 and 7110, or permission of the instructor.



    Credits: 3
  • PPOL 7146 - Global Health Law and Policy


    This seminar provides insight into the challenges of improving the health status of individuals worldwide - especially in low and middle income countries. Discussions will focus on financing, organizing, delivering, and administering health services in environments where resource constraints are significant. Material will be drawn from global health and policy sources including the WHO, The World Bank, the Institute of Medicine, the UN, etc.



    Credits: 3
  • PPOL 7150 - Environmental and Natural Resource Policy


    Pollution, public goods, and natural resource scarcity have long been core concerns in public policy, but as the human population heads toward 9 billion, there is an increasing sense that we can no longer take for granted the ability of Earth’s natural systems to support expected future levels of human activity.



    Credits: 3
  • PPOL 7160 - Research Methods and Data Analysis II


    Builds on the methods and concepts introduced into Research Methods and Data Analysis I to prepare students to gather, analyze, criticize, and interpret complex data in public policy settings. Tools stressed may include multiple regression and experimentation.



    Credits: 3
  • PPOL 7200 - Household Data Analysis


    This course provides students with the basis to analyze one form of ‘big data’ information from households and individuals from a Household Budget Survey (HBS). This course will use an HBS dataset from Turkey, but the STATA and other techniques (ADePT) covered can also be used with datasets from other countries, including the US..



    Credits: 3
  • PPOL 7250 - Summer Internship


    An important requirement of the Master in Public Policy, PPOL7250 allows students to apply the knowledge gained through their course work in a hands-on setting through domestic and international summer internships. Internships must last 10 weeks, 40 hours weekly.



    Credits: 0
  • PPOL 7300 - Principles of Net Assessment


    Net assessment is a way of determining where one stands as a nation compared with an adversary. Course explores historical & contemporary approaches to the measurement of military & economic capabilities. Capabilities are informed by the cultural, organizational, & bureaucratic context that shapes how states perceive, draw on, & apply them. Class brings these strands together through case studies illustrating the principles of net assessment.



    Credits: 3
  • PPOL 7350 - Applied Policy Project Preparation


    The course consists of assignments related to preparation for the Applied Policy Project in the spring.



    Credits: 1
  • PPOL 7400 - Legal and Moral Dimensions of Policymaking


    This seminar is designed to introduce MPP students to the basic structure of law and patterns of moral reasoning about public policy. Students will examine how the legal system operates in four fields (international, environmental, criminal, & immigration) and how legal advisers inform policy making. Case studies in each field will allow for the exploration of how the interaction of law, morality and policy changes from one context to the next.



    Credits: 3
  • PPOL 7410 - Psychology for Leadership


    Leading requires an understanding of one’s own and others’ thoughts, feelings, attitudes, motivations, and determinants of behavior. This course will use lectures, discussions, demonstrations, and group interactions to provide an introduction to theory and research in behavioral science. The goals of the course are to provide conceptual knowledge that helps students understand and manage their own unique and complicated leadership interactions.



    Credits: 3
  • PPOL 7550 - Leadership Workshop


    his workshop course will provide an introduction to the theory and practice of leadership. It will begin with an evaluation of the ways in which leadership is studied and taught, and will then turn to the identification and analysis of the specific tasks required of leaders in various public policy arenas, including examples of both leadership success and leadership failure.



    Credits: 3
  • PPOL 7600 - Thesis Project


    Thesis Project



    Credits: 3
  • PPOL 7610 - Applied Policy Project


    The Applied Policy Project (APP) is the capstone event of the MPP program, an independent analytical project for each student, working with an external client on a mutually agreed upon policy problem facing the client organization. The final product is a report approximately 50 pages single-spaced in length, professionally bound, and presented both to the faculty member and to the client.



    Credits: 3
  • PPOL 7650 - Law and Public Policy


    Students will take a class in the law and complete assignments that will be graded by Batten faculty.



    Credits: 0 to 6
  • PPOL 7800 - Leadership Skills


    Emphasizing learning through practice, this ‘short course’ reinforces, and in some cases introduces, skills that students will use in the policy arena. Skills include public speaking, negotiation in public policy, and grant-writing. Students will be graded on the basis of engagement with class materials and completion of a weekly, one-page deliverable or assignment of similar weight. Meets for 10 hours during the semester of students’ second year.



    Credits: 1
  • PPOL 7993 - Independent Study


    Student will perform independent projects under close faculty supervision.



    Credits: 1 to 6
  • PPOL 8210 - The American Presidency


    Readings and research on special problems of the American political and administrative system that come to a focus in the presidency or arise out of the manifold responsibilities of the president. Cross-listed with PLAP 8210.



    Credits: 3
  • PPOL 8680 - Economics and Education Policy


    This course is designed for those without training in economics who want a better understanding of how economic concepts and methods are used in analyzing education policy issues. It examines market concepts and forms of government involvement in the market and uses economic research in education. Students develop the skills of economic analysis by applying them to current issues in public education.



    Credits: 3