Submitted by Stephen Dunne on January 31, 2024 - 2:36pm
We will offer the following undergraduate PUBPOL courses this SPR:
- PUBPOL 302 Public Service Leadership (5) This course examines how communities work with governments, businesses, and nonprofits to solve complex problems. Explores ways to assess value trade-offs between profit, people, planet, and purpose. Students will learn to address these questions through immersive learning experiences, guest speakers, small group exercises, and reflective assignments.
- PUBPOL 321 Decision-making, Behavior, and Policy Design (5) This course provides a foundation in the application of psychology, behavioral economics, judgment and decision-making to study public policy problems. Students will learn how cognition, heuristics, biases, emotion, and social dynamics interact in decision-making, and how context and framing shape decisions. We will also engage in how decision-making influences the effect of public policies on the equity and efficiency of the production and distribution of goods and resources.
- PUBPOL 403 Leadership in Action (5) W This course provides both a survey of leadership techniques and an experimental space for practicing them. We will demystify leadership, explore the many ways you have already been a leader, emphasize learning about your leadership style, and identify what makes leaders truly successful. You will also improve your skills in participation, teamwork, and writing.
- PUBPOL 499A Environmental Policy (5) This course will provide an overview of central environmental, natural resource management, and climate policies, focusing primarily on policies in the United States. Students will learn about the actors and institutions involved in environmental governance, as well as key social science and policy theories that help to explain environmental conflicts and decision-making. This course will cover environmental governance issues in both legislative and executive branches and across levels of government.
- PUBPOL 499B Natural Language Processing (5) Cross listed with PUBPOL 599, this course introduces natural language processing models like ChatGPT, investigates the application and limitations of these models, and discussed how they can be used in the policy arena.
- PUBPOL 499C GIS & Public Policy (5) Cross listed with PUBPOL 546, this course focuses on geographic information systems in public policy analysis with attention to the tools widely used by social scientists, public policy scholars, urban planners, and environmental scientists.
The best way for students to connect is to schedule an advising appointment or to email pubpoladv@uw.edu.