Analyzes the development of large systems like smart highways, computer networks, electrical power, weapons, and space. Teaches practical skills including negotiation, coalition-building, strategy, and innovation politics. The course will explore concepts and issues related to the formation and implementation of information policies. An examination of the political processes that makes communications policy. The course covers the historical origins of government management of communications, Federal Communication Act, Federal Communications Commission, Congress, judiciary, executive, and special interest activity.
Communications is compared to other types of policies.
The discussions include historical and contemporary communications issues. Students develop an understanding of GIS software and hardware components, develop facility with a desktop GIS software package, explore digital data availability on the Internet, learn data transfer procedures, learn cartographic projection methods, apply GIS and environmental management data to analyze a selected program. TOP PUBP 6600. This course provides an introduction to the context, theory, process, and practice of local economic development planning and policy. This course focuses on strategy development, methods of analysis, and approaches to practice for urban and regional economic development policy and planning.