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Urban Policy
Location
Internet
Term
1st Term
Department
Health Policy and Management
Credit(s)
3
Academic Year
2024 - 2025
Instruction Method
Synchronous Online
Monday, 1:30 - 4:20pm
Auditors Allowed
Yes, with instructor consent
Available to Undergraduate
Yes
Grading Restriction
Letter Grade or Pass/Fail
Course Instructor(s)
Contact Name
Frequency Schedule
One Year Only
Resources
Prerequisite
Are you curious about the key urban policy challenges and opportunities facing American cities and their residents? In this course, we critically analyze 'the urban crisis,' the continuing viability of cities in the context of current economic and demographic dynamics, fiscal stress, governance, economic development, poverty and race, homelessness, federal urban policy, and survival strategies for declining cities.
Explores urban issues through a policy lens. Examines a wide range of urban characteristics and the challenges cities face from fiscal stress and governance to poverty, homelessness, and drugs. Explores policy remedies proposed or tried in the past, how well they have worked, and what other strategies may be tried.
Learning Objectives
Upon successfully completing this course, students will be able to:
- Describe the scope and complexity of a range of critical urban policy issues
- Think analytically, systematically and logically about complex urban policy problems
- Develop evidence-based targets for policy action
- Communicate complex ideas in a straightforward, cogent manner, both orally and in writing
Methods of Assessment
This course is evaluated as follows:
- 30% Participation
- 30% Written Assignment(s)
- 40% Final Paper