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Aug 21, 2024
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PA 622 - Seminar in the Public Policy Process Units: 4 Critical analysis of the public policy-making processes emphasizing the interrelationships among policy formulation, implementation, evaluation, and revision. Explores alternative models of the policy process; develop strategies and tactics for identifying and solving implementation problems; assessment of policy impact and effectiveness.
Prerequisites: PA 611 and PA 612. Possible Instructional Methods: On-ground, or Hybrid, or Online-Asynchronous. Grading: A-F grading only. Student Learning Outcomes - Upon successful completion of this course students will be able to:
- Explain the historical foundations of public affairs (policy, administration, and management).
- Articulate how policy as process and policy as substance are intertwined and explain the political, managerial and operational implications of policy choices.
- Demonstrate the ability to recognize and interpreting societal trends and events in terms of their potential for policy intervention and apply theories and concepts to policy problems.
- Discuss the basic elements of the public policy process and identify the participants, stakeholders, and others influencing the public policy process and their motivations.
- Demonstrate the ability to identify, explain, and evaluate the connections between public problems, goals, public programs, outputs and outcomes.
- Demonstrate a basic understanding of key areas of policy substance (economic policy, education policy, welfare/social service policy, environmental and morality policy, etc).
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