| PUBLPOL1 | Introduction to Public Policy | Public Policy 1 is an introduction to the wide range of fields and methods used in Public Policy analysis including economics, political science, social psychology, justice, ethics and organizations. The course will have weekly speakers who will prov... |
| PUBLPOL100 | Hoover Institution National Security Affairs Fellows Mentorship Program | This course is designed to give Stanford undergraduates an introduction to civil-military relations, leadership development, and operational aspects of American foreign policy. Admitted undergraduates will be mentored by a distinguished leader from t... |
| PUBLPOL101 | Introduction to American Politics and Policy: In Defense of Democracy | American democracy faces a series of unprecedented challenges. This course will identify the greatest areas of weakness in the American political system, make sense of the most pressing threats facing democracy, and contemplate how democracy can be s... |
| PUBLPOL103C | Justice | Justice, as we use the term in this class, is a question about social cooperation. People can produce much more cooperatively than the sum of what they could produce as individuals, and these gains from cooperation are what makes civilization possibl... |
| PUBLPOL103D | Ethics and Politics of Public Service | Ethical and political questions in public service work, including volunteering, service learning, humanitarian assistance, and public service professions such as medicine and teaching. Motives and outcomes in service work. Connections between service... |
| PUBLPOL103E | Ethics on the Edge Public Policy Core Seminar | This seminar-style course will explore additional foundational readings on organizational ethics (business, non-profit, and governmental organizations) and policy ethics. Themes will include, among others: AI and policy considerations; social media a... |
| PUBLPOL103F | Ethics of Truth in a Post-Truth World | This course will explore changing notions of truth in a world in which technology, global risks, and societal developments are blurring the boundaries of humanity and boring through traditional notions of nation states, institutions, and human identi... |
| PUBLPOL103Z | Ethics and Politics in Public Service | This course examines ethical and political questions that arise in doing public service work, whether volunteering, service learning, humanitarian endeavors overseas, or public service professions such as medicine and teaching. What motives do people... |
| PUBLPOL104 | Economic Policy Analysis | The relationship between microeconomic analysis and public policy making. How economic policy analysis is done and why political leaders regard it as useful but not definitive in making policy decisions. Economic rationales for policy interventions,... |
| PUBLPOL105 | Empirical Methods in Public Policy | Methods of empirical analysis and applications in public policy. Emphasis on causal inference and program evaluation. Public policy applications include health, labor and saving. Assignments include hands-on data analysis, evaluation of existing lite... |
| PUBLPOL108H | Housing Affordability Crisis in California: Causes, Impacts, and Solutions | This course will divided into three sections that when combined provide 1) the overall narrative of the precedents and adverse impacts of the worldwide, US west coast and California housing crises and the frameworks for California to create a balance... |
| PUBLPOL109Q | Community Police Academy | The Community Police Academy is a combination of classroom instruction and "hands-on" activities that examine life as a police officer. This class looks to clarify and expand the participant's knowledge of the responsibilities, decisions and constrai... |
| PUBLPOL111 | Leadership Challenges in Public Service | This course will examine the responsibilities and challenges for those who occupy leadership roles in public service, broadly defined to include work in government, non-profit organizations, academia, and philanthropy, whether as a full- time career... |
| PUBLPOL113 | America: Unequal | It was never imagined "when the U.S. was founded" that the rich would be so rich and the poor so poor. It was never imagined "when the U.S. was founded" that opportunities to get ahead would depend so profoundly on one's family circumstances and oth... |
| PUBLPOL114 | Spies, Lies, and Algorithms: The History and Future of American Intelligence | This course examines the past, present, and future of American espionage. Targeted at first years and sophomores, the class surveys key issues in the development of the U.S. Intelligence Community since World War II. Topics include covert action, int... |
| PUBLPOL115 | Practical Training | Qualified Public Policy students obtain employment in a relevant research or industrial activity to enhance their professional experience consistent with their degree programs. Prior to enrolling students must get internship approved by the Public Po... |
| PUBLPOL116 | Climate Perspectives: Climate Science, Impacts, Policy, Negotiations, and Advocacy | The course contains four main parts:Climate Science, Climate Impacts, Climate Policy, Climate Advocacy. Part I begins with a detailed introduction to climate science, including an assessment of arguments by climate science skeptics, and an examinatio... |
| PUBLPOL117 | Research and Policy on Postsecondary Access | The transition from high school to college. K-16 course focusing on high school preparation, college choice, remediation, pathways to college, and first-year adjustment. The role of educational policy in postsecondary access. Service Learning Course... |
| PUBLPOL118Y | Shaping the Future of the Bay Area | The complex urban problems affecting quality of life in the Bay Area, from housing affordability and transportation congestion to economic vitality and social justice, are already perceived by many to be intractable, and will likely be exacerbated by... |
| PUBLPOL118Z | Shaping the Future of the Bay Area | Students are placed in small interdisciplinary teams (engineers and non-engineers, undergraduate and graduate level) to work on complex design, engineering, and policy problems presented by external partners in a real urban setting. Multiple projects... |
| PUBLPOL119 | Automation, Autonomy, and the Future of Warfare | This course seeks to prepare future policymakers and industry leaders for the complex debate surrounding the development and employment of automated and autonomous weapons for warfare. Exploring the developmental, legal, ethical, and operational cons... |
| PUBLPOL121L | Racial-Ethnic Politics in US | This course examines the profound role race plays in American politics. Topics covered include the construction of political identity among Asian, Black, Latino, Native, and White Americans; the politics of immigration and acculturation; and the infl... |
| PUBLPOL122 | BioSecurity and Pandemic Resilience | Overview of the most pressing biosecurity issues facing the world today, with a special focus on the COVID-19 pandemic. Critical examination of ways of enhancing biosecurity and pandemic resilience to the current and future pandemics. Examination of... |
| PUBLPOL123 | Thinking About War | Introduction to the ideas, important writers, and policy decisions about warfare. Topics include: what causes wars, great strategists of warfare, whether nuclear weapons require different strategy than conventional war, fostering innovation, what cr... |
| PUBLPOL124 | American Political Institutions in Uncertain Times | This course examines how the rules that govern elections and the policy process determine political outcomes. It explores the historical forces that have shaped American political institutions, contemporary challenges to governing, and prospects for... |
| PUBLPOL127 | Health Care Leadership | Healthcare Leadership class brings eminent healthcare leaders from a variety of sectors within healthcare to share their personal reflections and insights on effective leadership. Speakers discuss their personal core values, share lessons learned and... |
| PUBLPOL129 | Conversations on the Indian Economy | This course is intended to give students the opportunity to engage with Stanford faculty, across the University's different schools, who undertake research related to the modern Indian economy, including professors from the Humanities and Sciences, E... |
| PUBLPOL130 | Planning Calif: the Intersection of Climate, Land Use, Transportation & the Economy | Cities and urban areas have always been transformed by major external changes like pandemics and public health crises. California is both in the midst of its greatest economic recession since the Great Depression and experiencing a pandemic that has... |
| PUBLPOL131 | Introduction to Space Policy | The last decade has seen dramatic developments and a rekindling of interest in space efforts. Silicon Valley has invested in a range of activities, including reusable launch services, constellations of communication and observation satellites, off-p... |
| PUBLPOL132 | The Politics of Policy Making | Public policymaking in the United States is part of a political process that can take years or even decades to play out. A familiarity with the politics of policymaking is key to understanding why some reform attempts are successful while others are... |
| PUBLPOL134 | Ethics on the Edge: Business, Non-Profit Organizations, Government, and Individuals | (PUBLPOL 134, PUBLPOL 234 - 3 credits, Ways - ER) (Same as LAW 7020) The objective of this course is to explore the increasing ethical challenges in a world in which technology, global risks, and societal developments are accelerating faster than our... |
| PUBLPOL135 | Regional Politics and Decision Making in Silicon Valley and the Greater Bay Area | Dynamics of regional leadership and decision making in Silicon Valley, a complex region composed of 40 cities and four counties without any overarching framework for governance. Formal and informal institutions shaping outcomes in the region. Case st... |
| PUBLPOL136 | The Sharing Economy | The rapid growth of the sharing economy, sometimes also called the peer to peer economy, is made possible by the ubiquity of smart phones, inefficiency of ownership, and measures designed to create and measure trust among participants. The course wi... |
| PUBLPOL14 | Navigating Financial Crises: From Emerging Markets to COVID-19 | What causes financial crises? What are the keys to anticipating, preventing, and managing disruptions in the global financial system? This course prepares students to navigate future episodes as policymakers, finance professionals, and citizens by go... |
| PUBLPOL141 | Monitoring the Crisis | A course devoted to understanding how people are faring as the country's health and economic crisis unfolds. The premise of the course is that, as important and valuable as surveys are, it's a capital mistake to presume that we know what needs to be... |
| PUBLPOL143 | Finance, Corporations, and Society | Both 'Free market capitalism' and democracy appear to be in crisis around the world. This interdisciplinary course, which draws from the Social Sciences, Business and Law, will help you gain a deeper understanding of the root causes of these intertwi... |
| PUBLPOL147 | Ending Poverty with Technology | There are growing worries that new technologies may eliminate work, increase inequality, and create a large dependent class subsisting on transfers. But can technology instead be turned against itself and used to end poverty? This class explores the... |
| PUBLPOL148 | Ending Poverty with Technology: A Practicum. | Will robots, automation, and technology eliminate work and create a large poverty-sticken dependent class? Or will they eliminate poverty, free us from the tyranny of work, and usher in a new society defined by leisure and creative pursuits? This t... |
| PUBLPOL150 | Investors and the Social Responsibility of Business | Much of the world's economic activity is undertaken by corporations, the largest being more powerful than most nations. Given daunting societal challenges like climate change, inequality, and racial injustice, what objectives should corporations have... |
| PUBLPOL152 | Negotiation | Students learn to prepare for and conduct negotiations in a variety of arenas including getting a job, managing workplace conflict, negotiating transactions, and managing personal relationships. Interactive class. The internationally travelled instru... |
| PUBLPOL153 | Energy, Clean Innovation & Sustainability | This Writing in the Major (WIM) course for Public Policy will focus on students being able to identify innovative solutions to address the energy, environmental, and infrastructure challenges in North America and clearly communicate these strategies... |
| PUBLPOL154 | Politics and Policy in California | State politics and policy making, including the roles of the legislature, legislative leadership, governor, special interests, campaign finance, advocacy groups, ballot initiatives, state and federal laws, media, and research organizations. Case stud... |
| PUBLPOL155 | Solving Social Problems with Data | Introduces students to the interdisciplinary intersection of data science and the social sciences through an in-depth examination of contemporary social problems. Provides a foundational skill set for solving social problems with data including quant... |
| PUBLPOL156 | Health Care Policy and Reform | (HUMBIO students must enroll in HUMBIO 122A. Graduate students must enroll in PUBLPOL 156.) Focuses on U.S. health care policy. Includes comparisons with health care policy in other countries and detailed examinations of Medicare, Medicaid, private i... |
| PUBLPOL159 | Economic, Legal, and Political Analysis of Climate-Change Policy | This course will advance students understanding of economic, legal, and political approaches to avoiding or managing the problem of global climate change. Theoretical contributions as well as empirical analyses will be considered. It will address eco... |
| PUBLPOL163 | Land Use: Planning for Sustainable Cities | Through case studies with a focus on the San Francisco Bay Area, guest speakers, selective readings and interactive assignments, this survey course seeks to demystify the concept of land use for the non-city planner. This introductory course will rev... |
| PUBLPOL164 | The Psychology of Communication About Politics in America | Focus is on how politicians and government learn what Americans want and how the public's preferences shape government action; how surveys measure beliefs, preferences, and experiences; how poll results are criticized and interpreted; how conflict be... |
| PUBLPOL165 | How Cities Can Save the World | In our cities, we find the greatest concentrations of the world's great problems - poverty, homelessness, violent crime, and GHG emissions, to name a few. So too, cities present many of the most innovative, impactful solutions to these challenges.... |
| PUBLPOL167 | How To Be a Politician | Do you want to run for political office one day? This course will give you a full toolkit for winning elections. It will help students think about their personal narrative, how to present themselves to the electorate, and the issues and messages that... |
| PUBLPOL170 | Bridging Policy and Tech Through Design | This project-based course aims to bring together students from computer science and the social sciences to work with external partner organizations at the nexus of digital technology and public policy. Students will collaborate in interdisciplinary t... |
| PUBLPOL174 | The Urban Economy | Applies the principles of economic analysis to historical and contemporary urban and regional development issues and policies. Explores themes of urban economic geography, location decision-making by firms and individuals, urban land and housing mar... |
| PUBLPOL177 | Philosophy of Public Policy | From healthcare to voting reforms, social protection and educational policies, public policies are underpinned by moral values. When we debate those policies, we typically appeal to values like justice, fairness, equality, freedom, privacy, and safet... |
| PUBLPOL178 | The Science and Practice of Effective Advocacy | How can purposeful collective action change government policy, business practices and cultural norms? This course will teach students about the components of successful change campaigns and help develop the practical skills to carry out such efforts.... |
| PUBLPOL181 | Computers, Ethics, and Public Policy | Ethical and social issues related to the development and use of computer technology. Ethical theory, and social, political, and legal considerations. Scenarios in problem areas: privacy, reliability and risks of complex systems, and responsibility of... |
| PUBLPOL182 | Ethics, Public Policy, and Technological Change | Examination of recent developments in computing technology and platforms through the lenses of philosophy, public policy, social science, and engineering.  Course is organized around five main units: algorithmic decision-making and bias; data privacy... |
| PUBLPOL193 | Undergraduate Teaching Apprenticeship | Prior arrangement required. |
| PUBLPOL197 | Junior Honors Seminar | For juniors (advanced sophomores will be considered) who expect to write an honors thesis in Economics or Public Policy. Weekly sessions go through the process of selecting a research question, finding relevant bibliography, writing a literature revi... |
| PUBLPOL198 | Directed Readings in Public Policy | No Description Set |
| PUBLPOL199 | Senior Honors Thesis Research | May be repeated for credit. |
| PUBLPOL19Q | Government by the Numbers | Spending by federal, state, and local governments accounts for about one-third of U.S. GDP and governments employ more than one-in-seven workers in the U.S. For most U.S. residents, government is represented by a complicated web of federal, state, an... |
| PUBLPOL200A | Senior Practicum | Small student teams conduct policy analyses requested by government and nonprofit organizations. With guidance from the instructor and client organization, each team researches a real-world problem and devises implementable policy recommendations to... |
| PUBLPOL200B | Senior Practicum | Small student teams conduct policy analyses requested by government and nonprofit organizations. With guidance from the instructor and client organization, each team researches a real-world problem and devises implementable policy recommendations to... |
| PUBLPOL200C | Senior Practicum | Small student teams conduct policy analyses requested by government and nonprofit organizations. With guidance from the instructor and client organization, each team researches a real-world problem and devises implementable policy recommendations to... |
| PUBLPOL200H | Senior Honors Seminar | Honors students conduct original research for their policy-related Honors thesis. The course is designed to help students make progress on their theses and improve their analytical, research, and communication skills. |
| PUBLPOL201 | Introduction to American Politics and Policy: In Defense of Democracy | American democracy faces a series of unprecedented challenges. This course will identify the greatest areas of weakness in the American political system, make sense of the most pressing threats facing democracy, and contemplate how democracy can be s... |
| PUBLPOL203E | Ethics on the Edge Public Policy Core Seminar | This seminar-style course will explore additional foundational readings on organizational ethics (business, non-profit, and governmental organizations) and policy ethics. Themes will include, among others: AI and policy considerations; social media a... |
| PUBLPOL203F | Ethics of Truth in a Post-Truth World | This course will explore changing notions of truth in a world in which technology, global risks, and societal developments are blurring the boundaries of humanity and boring through traditional notions of nation states, institutions, and human identi... |
| PUBLPOL204 | Economic Policy Analysis | The relationship between microeconomic analysis and public policy making. How economic policy analysis is done and why political leaders regard it as useful but not definitive in making policy decisions. Economic rationales for policy interventions,... |
| PUBLPOL205 | Empirical Methods in Public Policy | Methods of empirical analysis and applications in public policy. Emphasis on causal inference and program evaluation. Public policy applications include health, labor and saving. Assignments include hands-on data analysis, evaluation of existing lite... |
| PUBLPOL209 | What is Public about Public Lands - Who and How to Manage. | The seminar will exam the origin and evolution of public lands from 1789 forward. Specifically, how the United States' concept of property has evolved and thus the management or caretaking of these lands has also changed. There are nearly 500 milli... |
| PUBLPOL217 | The Future of Global Cooperation | With autocracy resurgent and democracy on the decline, what is the future of global cooperation? What will be the fate of global institutions built to restore and maintain peace? Why pursue global cooperation at all? This seminar examines the role of... |
| PUBLPOL217A | Research and Policy on Postsecondary Access | The transition from high school to college. K-16 course focusing on high school preparation, college choice, remediation, pathways to college, and first-year adjustment. The role of educational policy in postsecondary access. Service Learning Course... |
| PUBLPOL218Y | Shaping the Future of the Bay Area | The complex urban problems affecting quality of life in the Bay Area, from housing affordability and transportation congestion to economic vitality and social justice, are already perceived by many to be intractable, and will likely be exacerbated by... |
| PUBLPOL218Z | Shaping the Future of the Bay Area | Students are placed in small interdisciplinary teams (engineers and non-engineers, undergraduate and graduate level) to work on complex design, engineering, and policy problems presented by external partners in a real urban setting. Multiple projects... |
| PUBLPOL219 | Automation, Autonomy, and the Future of Warfare | This course seeks to prepare future policymakers and industry leaders for the complex debate surrounding the development and employment of automated and autonomous weapons for warfare. Exploring the developmental, legal, ethical, and operational cons... |
| PUBLPOL222 | BioSecurity and Pandemic Resilience | Overview of the most pressing biosecurity issues facing the world today, with a special focus on the COVID-19 pandemic. Critical examination of ways of enhancing biosecurity and pandemic resilience to the current and future pandemics. Examination of... |
| PUBLPOL223 | Thinking About War | Introduction to the ideas, important writers, and policy decisions about warfare. Topics include: what causes wars, great strategists of warfare, whether nuclear weapons require different strategy than conventional war, fostering innovation, what cr... |
| PUBLPOL224 | Social Entrepreneurship and Innovation Lab (SE Lab) - Human & Planetary Health | Social Entrepreneurship and Innovation Lab (SE Lab) - Global & Planetary Health is a Collaboratory workshop for students/fellows to design and develop innovative social ventures addressing key challenges in health and the environment, especially in s... |
| PUBLPOL227 | Health Care Leadership | Healthcare Leadership class brings eminent healthcare leaders from a variety of sectors within healthcare to share their personal reflections and insights on effective leadership. Speakers discuss their personal core values, share lessons learned and... |
| PUBLPOL230 | Planning Calif: the Intersection of Climate, Land Use, Transportation & the Economy | Cities and urban areas have always been transformed by major external changes like pandemics and public health crises. California is both in the midst of its greatest economic recession since the Great Depression and experiencing a pandemic that has... |
| PUBLPOL232 | The Politics of Policy Making | Public policymaking in the United States is part of a political process that can take years or even decades to play out. A familiarity with the politics of policymaking is key to understanding why some reform attempts are successful while others are... |
| PUBLPOL234 | Ethics on the Edge: Business, Non-Profit Organizations, Government, and Individuals | (PUBLPOL 134, PUBLPOL 234 - 3 credits, Ways - ER) (Same as LAW 7020) The objective of this course is to explore the increasing ethical challenges in a world in which technology, global risks, and societal developments are accelerating faster than our... |
| PUBLPOL238 | Wise Interventions | Classic and contemporary psychological interventions; the role of psychological factors in social reforms for social problems involving healthcare, the workplace, education, intergroup, relations, and the law. Topics include theories of intervention,... |
| PUBLPOL265F | Environmental Governance and Climate Resilience | Adaptation to climate change will not only require new infrastructure and policies, but it will also challenge our local, state and national governments to collaborate across jurisdictional lines in ways that include many different types of private a... |
| PUBLPOL267 | How To Be a Politician | Do you want to run for political office one day? This course will give you a full toolkit for winning elections. It will help students think about their personal narrative, how to present themselves to the electorate, and the issues and messages that... |
| PUBLPOL270 | Civic Design | How can we use participatory design strategies and interventions to address civic challenges at scale and support resilient cities and communities? Planners, policymakers, courts, and designers are exhorted to 'involve the public' in decision-making,... |
| PUBLPOL291 | Theories of Change in Global Health | Organizations dedicated to improving global health deploy various approaches ranging from efforts to improve economic conditions, health systems, and technology to policy change and advocacy. This course critically evaluates 15 common theories of cha... |
| PUBLPOL298 | Directed Readings in Public Policy | No Description Set |
| PUBLPOL301A | Intermediate Microeconomics for Public Policy | This course introduces the theories of consumers, producers, and markets, and uses these concepts to understand how people make complex economic decisions in the real world. By the end of the course, students will be familiar with core microeconomic... |
| PUBLPOL301B | Economic Policy Analysis for Policymakers | This class provides economic and institutional background necessary to conduct policy analysis. We will examine the economic justification for government intervention and illustrate these concepts with applications drawn from different policy context... |
| PUBLPOL302B | Economic Analysis of Law | (Same as LAW 7502.) This course will provide a broad overview of the scholarly field known as "law and economics." The focus will be on how legal rules and institutions can correct market failures. We will discuss the economic function of contracts a... |
| PUBLPOL303D | Applied Econometrics for Public Policy | This course aims to present the theory and practice of empirical research in economics with particular emphasis on topics relating to public policy questions. We will start with the analysis of randomized experiments, then move to basic regression an... |
| PUBLPOL306 | Writing and Rhetoric for Policy Audiences | This course offers hands-on learning of effective writing and presentation techniques for audiences that include policy makers, decision stakeholders, interest groups, the media, and the public. Class time will be spent learning lessons in rhetoric,... |
| PUBLPOL308 | Political Analysis for Public Policymakers | Policymakers in the United States, whether elected or unelected, operate in a governmental system where politics pervades nearly every element of their daily activity. This course provides students with both the theory and real-world examples they ne... |
| PUBLPOL309 | Practicum | Applied policy exercises in various fields. Multidisciplinary student teams apply skills to a contemporary problem in a major policy exercise with a public sector client such as a government agency. Problem analysis, interaction with the client and e... |
| PUBLPOL309X | Public Policy Research Project | Supervised research internship. Individual students perform policy research for outside client, applying analytical skills from core curriculum. Requires permission of program director. |
| PUBLPOL310 | Master of Arts Thesis | Restricted to students writing a master's thesis in Public Policy. May be repeated for credit. |
| PUBLPOL310A | Master's Thesis Seminar | For Public Policy MA students writing a thesis. Sessions go through the process of selecting a research question, finding relevant bibliography, writing a literature review, introduction, and study design. Each student works on their own project, wit... |
| PUBLPOL311 | Public Policy Colloquium | Weekly colloquia speaker series required for M.P.P. and M.A. in Public Policy students. Open only to Public Policy graduate students; permission number required to enroll. |
| PUBLPOL314 | Justice in Public Policy | How should we judge the fairness of social institutions? This is the basic question of justice, and it is a crucial topic for students of public policy. Justice, the philosopher John Rawls famously argued, is the "first virtue of social institutions... |
| PUBLPOL315 | Practical Training | Qualified Public Policy students obtain employment in a relevant research or industrial activity to enhance their professional experience consistent with their degree programs. Prior to enrolling students must get internship approved by the Public Po... |
| PUBLPOL316 | Global Education Policy & Organization | Education policy, politics, and development. Topics include: politics, interests, institutions, policy, and civil society; how schools and school systems operate as political systems; how policy making occurs in educational systems; and theories of d... |
| PUBLPOL319 | Legislation | (Same as Law 7048) Lawyers work in a legal system largely defined by statutes, and constantly shaped by the application of legislative power. This course is about statutes and the legislative institutions that create them. It discusses some of the ke... |
| PUBLPOL321 | Nonprofits, Philanthropy & Society | Over the past several decades nonprofit organizations have become increasingly central entities in society, and with this growing status and importance their roles are increasingly complex.We consider the social, political and economic dynamics of ph... |
| PUBLPOL339 | Questionnaire Design for Surveys and Laboratory Experiments: Social and Cognitive Perspectives | The social and psychological processes involved in asking and answering questions via questionnaires for the social sciences; optimizing questionnaire design; open versus closed questions; rating versus ranking; rating scale length and point labeling... |
| PUBLPOL353A | Science and Technology Policy | U.S. policies for science, technology, and innovation; political institutions that create and carry out these policies; government programs that support scientific research and the development and use of new technologies; political controversies surr... |
| PUBLPOL353B | Regulating New Technology: Policy, Innovation, and Risk | Social and political dimensions of the regulation of new and innovative forms of science and technology. Examines how science and technology both shape politics and are shaped by politics, with particular attention to the political system of Californ... |
| PUBLPOL364 | The Future of Finance | This 2-credit course will examine vast changes driven by innovation both from within traditional finance and from new ecosystems in fintech among others. Breathtaking advances in financial theory, big data, machine learning, artificial intelligence,... |
| PUBLPOL4 | Democracy Matters | Should the U.S. close its border to immigrants? What are the ramifications of income inequality? How has COVID-19 changed life as we know it? Why are Americans so politically polarized? How can we address racial injustice? As the 2020 election appr... |
| PUBLPOL50 | Intermediate Microeconomics for Public Policy | This course introduces the theories of consumers, producers, and markets, and uses these concepts to understand how people make complex economic decisions in the real world. By the end of the course, students will be familiar with core microeconomic... |
| PUBLPOL55N | Public Policy and Personal Finance | The seminar will provide an introduction and discussion of the impact of public policy on personal finance. Voters regularly rate the economy as one of the most important factors shaping their political views and most of those opinions are focused on... |
| PUBLPOL63Q | Democratizing Ethics with Discrimination, Inequality, Injustice and Technology in Mind | This seminar/practicum will invite students to ¿roll up our sleeves¿ and deliver concrete recommendations for making ethical decision-making accessible to ordinary citizens rather than just determined by corporate giants, law makers or academic exper... |
| PUBLPOL73 | Energy Policy in California and the West | This seminar provides an in-depth analysis of the role of California state agencies and Western energy organizations in driving energy policy development, technology innovation, and market structures, in California, the West and internationally. The... |
| PUBLPOL75 | Pathways to Public Service | This one-unit lecture series explores potential careers in public service, including roles in government as well as in many other organizations; such as nonprofits, foundations, corporations, and arts organizations that help shape public policy and c... |
| PUBLPOL75B | Public Service and Social Impact: Pathways to Purposeful Careers | How do I translate my interests and skills into a career in public service and social impact? This course will introduce you to a wide range of roles that help shape public policy and civic life, including government, education, nonprofits, social en... |
| PUBLPOL801 | TGR Project | Instructor and program consent required prior to enrollment. |