Policy Studies Policy Studies Courses 195.395 Citizenship and Politics A survey of the varying meanings of the concept of citizenship and a consideration of how these meanings are realized or distorted in the institutions that make policy for communities and societies. Admission is by permission of the instructor. Undergraduates must take the seminar and internship concurrently. Graduate students may take the seminar only. The goal of this course is to communicate the basic principles of microeconomics by emphasizing applications to the solution of public problems.
Students examine how markets operate and how they fail.
This includes an analysis of the reasons for government intervention. Public vs. private goods, the problem of externalities, the pricing of public goods, and related issues will be addressed. The course provides the student with elements of a theoretical framework useful in addressing policy problems. This course sequence introduces students to the application of statistical techniques commonly used in policy analysis and decision analysis including measures of central tendency, correlation, analysis of variance, and multivariate analysis. The course uses actual policy problems to demonstrate applications of techniques.