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Planning, Public Policy & Management (PPPM)
119 Hendricks, 541-346-3635
College of Design
G - Pre-major, major, or minor are required to take this course graded to be applied to major/minor requirements
Wait List- 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
Instructor: Afshari SE-mail Office:   College Of Design -Pppm
Course Materials
 
  CRN Avail Max Time Day Location Instructor Notes

+ Dis

34308 25 25 1100-1150 f 142 HED Afshari S Wait List
 
Associated Sections

Lecture

34303 150 150 1400-1520 tr 100 WIL Lambert P G
Academic Deadlines
Deadline     Last day to:
March 29:   Process a complete drop (100% refund, no W recorded)
April 4:   Drop this course (100% refund, no W recorded; after this date, W's are recorded)
April 4:   Process a complete drop (90% refund, no W recorded; after this date, W's are recorded)
April 5:   Process a complete withdrawal (90% refund, W recorded)
April 5:   Withdraw from this course (100% refund, W recorded)
April 6:   Add this course
April 6:   Last day to change to or from audit
April 12:   Process a complete withdrawal (75% refund, W recorded)
April 12:   Withdraw from this course (75% refund, W recorded)
April 19:   Process a complete withdrawal (50% refund, W recorded)
April 19:   Withdraw from this course (50% refund, W recorded)
April 26:   Process a complete withdrawal (25% refund, W recorded)
April 26:   Withdraw from this course (25% refund, W recorded)
May 17:   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.

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