Courses in Public Policy are listed in the Time Schedule under the School of Public Policy.
The following courses count as
LS&A courses for LS&A degree credit.
529/Poli.
Sci. 529. Statistics. Permission
of instructor. No previous course work in statistics is required, but a prior calculus course or concurrent enrollment in Math 413.
(3). (Excl).
This course covers descriptive
statistics, probability theory, probability distributions (normal, binomial, Poisson, exponential), sampling distributions, confidence
intervals, hypothesis testing, correlation, and simple regression
analysis. It also includes an introduction to experimental design
and to Bayesian decision analysis. The emphasis in the course
in on preparing competent users and consumers of basic statistics.
Some attention is paid to the mathematical underpinnings of statistical theory so that students will be prepared to go on to the SPP econometrics
course (SPP 571). (Chamberlin)
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556/Econ. 556. Macroeconomics. (4). (Excl).
The course analyzes the determinants of a country's living standards in the long run
and how a country can influence those standards by its saving-investment
policies. It explains how business cycles arise and how they can
or cannot be stabilized by policy actions. It also analyzes inflation, unemployment, the balance of trade, exchange rates, interest rates, and other widely-watched indicators of economic success. The course
gives students a chance to act as policy makers. Students break
into small groups, pick a country, and analyze that country's
macroeconomic problems: inflation; budget deficits; unemployment;
private investments; and trade deficits. (Deardorff)
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573/Econ. 573. Benefit-Cost Analysis.
Econ. 555. (4).
(Excl).
This course teaches
students how to evaluate government programs. It covers the mechanics
of benefit-cost analysis, how scarce or unemployed resources should
be priced, the choice of a proper time discount rate, treatment
of income distribution issues, environmental benefits, intergovernmental
grants, and regulatory problems. A concluding section handles
some methodological issues such as the optimal scale of an investigation
and the potentials of social experimentation. An essential part
of the course is a term project – each student selects a program
and evaluates it. (Deardorff)
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586/Poli. Sci. 586. Organizational Design.
(3). (Excl).
This course is designed
to help students understand organizations from several perspectives.
One perspective is that of a person who will be working in an
organization. A second perspective is that of a policy analyst
whose job it is to do analyses that are organizationally sensitive
and to propose appropriate solutions to organizational problems.
A third perspective is that of a manager responsible for making
decisions that affect the well-being of the organization and its
members. The course presents theory and opportunities for practice
relevant to these perspectives. (Mohr)
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