G - Pre-major, major, or minor are required to take this course graded to be applied to major/minor requirements
U - Some or all of the seats in this section are reserved for students in Freshman Interest Groups (FIG), Academic Residential Communities (ARC), or Summer Bridge participants.
- Wait list is available when course is full
Course Data
PPPM 201 + Dis >2 >AC >US
0.00 cr.
Overview of professional public service and the planning and management of public issues. Focuses on the goals of public services within their economic, social, and political contexts.
Grading Options:
Optional; see degree guide or catalog for degree requirements
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January 10:
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January 10:
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January 11:
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January 11:
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January 12:
Add this course
January 12:
Last day to change to or from audit
January 18:
Process a complete withdrawal (75% refund, W recorded)
January 18:
Withdraw from this course (75% refund, W recorded)
January 25:
Process a complete withdrawal (50% refund, W recorded)
January 25:
Withdraw from this course (50% refund, W recorded)
February 1:
Process a complete withdrawal (25% refund, W recorded)
February 1:
Withdraw from this course (25% refund, W recorded)
February 22:
Withdraw from this course (0% refund, W recorded)
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Expanded Course Description
This course is an introduction to the related fields of planning, public policy, and the management of public and non-profit organizations. As an introduction, it aims to lay out the broad contours of these disciplines: the problems they address and the intellectual and methodological approaches to these problems. Another objective of this course is to convey the challenge and the excitement of professional work in these fields.
Professional work in planning, public policy and management requires that the practitioner be a savvy politician, a skilled analyst, an effective leader, and possess a deep knowledge of the substantive issue being addressed, whether it be terrorism and national security, child welfare policy, or wetlands management. Moreover, the effective practitioner operates with an ethical purpose, respecting the integrity of civic institutions and the ultimate sovereignty of citizens. This course will have failed if any of the intellectual, political, technical, social or ethical dimensions of effective performance are slighted. It is this peculiar stew that gives the field its challenge and excitement.
My intention is to combine a number of approaches: lectures, guest speakers, case reviews, student presentations, and as much class discussion as we can fruitfully accommodate.
- Wait list is available when course is full
