| • PPD 225 Public Policy and Management (Fall, Spring) Institutions, legal context, and processes of public policy and management. Contemporary theories of public policy formulation, implementation, and evaluation. Public managerial challenges and reforms. | |
| • PPD 227 Urban Planning and Development (Fall) Gateway to Urban Studies and Planning BS. City building and development process; who plans, politics of planning and development; major topics include land use, fiscal policy, transportation, sustainability, and economic development. | |
| • PPD 240g Citizenship and Public Ethics (Fall, Spring) Review of legal and ethical traditions of citizenship with emphasis on the latter; consideration of implications for current practice of public policy-making and management. | |
| • PPD 245g The Urban Context for Policy and Planning (Fall, Spring) The urban context for planning and policy decisions. Socioeconomic, physical, and spatial structure of cities: and the underlying demographic, economic, and social processes that drive their ongoing transformation. | |
| • PPD 250m Cities in the Developing World (irregular) The transition from traditional to modern cities in the developing world. Primacy and dualism; comparative urbanism as an expression of cultural variation; contrast in Western cities. | |
| • PPD 300 Social Justice Issues in Public Policy and Urban Planning (Fall, Spring) Social justice issues through the lens of public policy and urban planning with main focus on Los Angeles; critical thinking skills about the fields and their relevance to social justice | |
| • PPD 301 PPD Practices: Internship Seminar (Fall, Spring, Summer) Policy, planning, and development skills for practice; internship seminar; leadership, group dynamics and presentation skills; application of management; organizational diversity; reflection on experiences. Duplicates credit in the former PPD-401. | |
| • PPD 303 Statistics for Policy, Planning, and Development (Fall, Spring) Statistical applications applied to the real world; techniques including probability, sampling; hypothesis formation and testing; correlation, and linear regression. Pre-requisite: MATH 117 | |
| • PPD 306 Visual Methods in Policy, Management, Planning and Development (irregular) Introduction to graphic design, photo documentation, and geographic information systems as employed in planning, policy, and development. Visual explanations. Computer and by-hand applications. | |
| • PPD 313 Finance of the Public Sector (Fall) Justifications for and effects of government policies; tax and spending sides of government budgets; public goods; externalities; social insurance; redistribution and welfare; tax policy. | |
| • PPD 314 Public Policy and Law (Spring) Institutional foundations and analysis of public policy issues; policy formulation and implementation; application of theories; case analyses. | |
| •PPD 315 Analytic Foundations for Public Policy (Fall) Qualitative methods of analysis; ethical and political implications of policy choices; issue diagnosis and policy design skills; critical reasoning and ethics; policy leadership. | |
| • PPD 316 Human Resource Management for Public Organizations (irregular) Human resource development and management; values and processes in civil service career systems; training practices; human relations in supervision; personnel theory. | |
| • PPD 318 Financial Accounting in Public and Nonprofit Organizations (irregular) Basic accounting principles and concepts necessary for the preparation and understanding of financial statements; accounting for service organizations in the public/nonprofit sector; fund accounting. | |
| • PPD 320 Organizational Behavior in Public Administration (Spring) Understanding human behavior in public organization: motivation, roles, communication; group behavior and decision-making in public context; managing conflict; leadership and change in public complex organizational systems. | |
| • PPD 325 Fundamentals of Health Policy and Management (Fall, Spring) Learning the institutions of health care delivery and financing; evaluating key health policy issues; understanding and using economic, statistical and mathematical tools as ways to inform health policy issues. | |
| • PPD 330 Introduction to Health Care Systems (Spring) Concepts and determinants of health and illness; health care delivery organizations and programs; the role of the administrator; issues in health care financing and access; quality evaluation; future trends. | |
| • PPD 340 The American System of Justice (irregular) Introduction to the system of justice administration: components — police services, judiciary, corrections; interrelationships and issues; management strategies for change. | |
| • PPD 342 Crime and Public Policy (Fall) Public policy agenda-setting, alternatives formulation, and implementation for crime and criminal justice; analysis of specific issues including crime control, death penalty, and gun control. | |
| •PPD 343 Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Public Policy (irregular) Overview of terrorism, government policies and practices, issues of civil liberties, challenges to public sector management. | |
| • PPD 344 Environmental Policy and Sustainable Development (irregular) Introduction to critical issues of environmental policy in looking toward a more sustainable future; the science and policy of climate change; equity and justice; the greening of industry, governing for sustainable development; policy tools in addressing issues of environmental protection and sustainability. | |
| • PPD 353 Philanthropy and Social Change (Spring) History, theories, philosophies, and practices of philanthropy; relationship between philanthropy and nonprofit world; grant-making procedures and relation to social innovation. | |
| •PPD 357 Government and Business (Fall, Spring) Interrelated roles of business and public institutions; effects of public policies and laws on business sector; incorporates public and business perspectives. Pre-requisite: ECON 203 | |
| • PPD 358 Urban and Regional Economics (irregular) Basic concepts of urban and regional economies; how planners intervene in the urban market; housing, transportation, public goods; land use politics; fiscal issues; cost-benefit analysis. | |
| •PPD 360 Urban Transportation Planning and Policy (Fall) Current transportation planning and policy critiques. Transportation planning: the relationship to urban structure; conventional and para-transit modes; analysis of local plans. | |
| • PPD 361 Sustainable Communities, Policy and Planning (Fall, Spring) Policy and planning as shaped by sustainability theories; sustainability indicators; topics include water resources, air quality, land use regulations, environmental design, carrying capacity, ecological footprint analysis. Duplicates credit in former PPD 461. | |
| • PPD 364 Technology and the City (irregular) Smart cities; connectivity and technological innovation; effects of technology on infrastructure management and efficiency; how public policy has responded to technological change and identify best practices; case studies on the impact of technology on cities. | |
| • PPD 371 The Nonprofit Sector and the Public Interest (Fall, Spring) Theories of the voluntary nonprofit sector in society and its relationship to government and business; public policies toward the sector. | |
| • PPD 372m Public Service in an Urban Setting (irregular) Voluntary service in an urban, multicultural context: diverse meanings and practices, history, motivations, relationship to charity and change, dilemmas, public policies; service learning project required. | |
| • PPD 373 Public Policy and Planning Analysis (Fall, Spring) Applied analytic modeling and data manipulation; visual presentation; interpretation of data; needs assessment and market failure analysis; indexing; extrapolation and simple forecasting; simple risk analysis; benefit-cost analysis. Pre-requisite: PPD 225 and ECON 203 and 1 from (PPD 303 or PPD 404) | |
| • PPD 380a International Perspectives on Urban Problem Solving (irregular) Research on comparative urban public policy and administration utilizing case study approach; field research includes study in various foreign cities. | |
| • PPD 380b International Perspectives on Urban Problem Solving (irregular) Research on comparative urban public policy and administration utilizing case study approach; field research includes study in various foreign cities. | |
| • PPD 382 International Development (Spring) Definitions and measurements of development; impact of globalization; concept and practice of international development administration and planning at local, national, and global governance levels. | |
| • PPD 390 Special Problems | |
| • PPD 400 Topics in Public Policy and Urban Studies (Fall, Spring) Seminar in cross cutting topics in public policy and urban studies that engages students with faculty and scholars in interdisciplinary research and analysis of key problems and issues in the fields. | |
| • PPD 402 Management of Public and Nonprofit Organizations (Spring) Contemporary management theory; the nature of complex organizations’ organizational and intergovernmental arrangements; roles and responsibilities of managers; managerial and organizational effectiveness; organizational structure and dynamics. | |
| • PPD 403 Management Analysis I (irregular) Introduction to organizational and systems analysis; historical perspective; systems theory; information systems, procedure analysis; management planning; introduction to models. | |
| •PPD 404 Empirical Methods for Public Policy (Fall) Introduction to multivariate regression analysis for policy analysis; course begins with Ordinary Least Squares (OLS) estimation and covers some advanced topics such as panel data and experimental methods; application of these tools in a variety of policy contexts such as education, labor, and health. | |
| • PPD 405 Fundraising for Policy and Planning (2-units; irregular) Fundraising in the nonprofit sector; role and structure of philanthropy; strategic issues in the solicitation of private funds for the public good; effect of fundraising on behavior of institutions. | |
| • PPD 407 Financial Management of Public and Nonprofit Organizations (Spring) Time value of money, risk, government bonds and tax-exempt financing, cost of capital, budgeting, financial statement analysis, and working capital management. | |
| • PPD 410 Comparative Urban Development (Spring) Urbanization and urban development and growth through an international scope; globalizing cities. | |
| • PPD 412L GeoDesign Practicum (Spring) Application of design concepts, planning protocols and spatial analysis skills to a complex planning or design problem sponsored by a local public, private or not-for-profit client in a studio setting. | |
| • PPD 413 Administration of Health Care Organizations (Fall) Theory and practice; role of governing bodies, medical staffs and quality review committees; current trends; community responsibility; regulatory and oversight agencies. | |
| • PPD 414 Community Health Policy and Planning (Spring) Historical perspectives on and the contemporary practice of community health planning; impact of culture, socioeconomics, and environment; policy dimensions; urban planning’s role in enhancing and sustaining health. | |
| • PPD 415 Health Policy (Spring) Health policy analysis and challenges; price of health; structure of major sectors in health care; role of insurance in policy debates; trade-offs with policy decisions. Pre-requisite: PPD 325 | |
| • PPD 416 Food Policy and Planning (2-units; irregular) Key issues related to the practice of food system planning; practice of creating and implementing food policies; understanding of food systems; issues around community food governance. | |
| • PPD 420 Environmental Impact Assessment (irregular) Exploration of the role of the National Environmental Policy Act and the California Environmental Policy Act; study of environmental impact assessments including the regulatory aspects, stakeholder and participatory processes, and legal framework. | |
| • PPD 421 Land Use, Environment, and Housing in Developing Countries (irregular) Comparative analysis of issues in the built environment in the US and abroad; development, land use, and the supply of housing; housing affordability; land tenure. | |
| • PPD 422 Transportation and Technology and the Future of Mobility (Spring) Introduction of the role that technology will play in facilitating shared mobility, disrupting transportation markets, and reshaping multi-modal urban transportation systems; analyses of governance issues; the interaction between private markets and regulators; changes in the nature of infrastructure and urban planning that will be required to accommodate the wired future of transportation. | |
| • PPD 427L Geographic Information Systems and Planning Applications (Spring) Basic GIS concepts, ArcView and other GIS software, planning applications and databases, basic cartography; students selct, research and prepare a planning GIS analysis project. | |
| • PPD 429 Urban Design Practicum (irregular) Application of design concepts and graphic skills to a local design problem sponsored by a local public or private client in a studio setting; site visits, community contact, presentations. | |
| • PPD 430 Urban Informatics (Fall) Introduction to urban informatics including the fundamentals of coding, urban data analysis and statistics, visualization, mapping, smart cities/technology and telling stories with data. | |
| •PPD 431 Undergraduate Policy, Planning, and Development Studio (Fall, Spring) Application of methods in the exploration of a specific project, policy, or organization from the multiple perspectives of the five tracks in the undergraduate program. | |
| • PPD 438 Local Economic Development (irregular) Economic development in a capitalist system, historic review, sectoral review, funding, strategizing, partnerships, evaluation; class project. | |
| • PPD 439 Housing and Community Development (Fall) Evolution of government housing and community development programs; present practices, e.g., housing elements, economic development, neighborhood rehabilitation; housing needs and market analysis; housing and health. | |
| • PPD 466 Urban Government and Management (irregular) Preparation and discussion of cases dealing with selected policy areas including transportation, housing, poverty, and environmental quality. | |
| • PPD 476 Politics and Administration (irregular) Administrative relationships to the policy processes; influence of political and economic pressures on administrative policy determination; political behavior by administrators; case analysis. | |
| • PPD 478 Social Innovation (Fall, Spring) Strategies and processes of social innovation and change; examination of social change in the market, government, and within the nonprofit sector; dynamics; civic action and activism | |
| • PPD 482 Comparative Public Administration (irregular) Methodology, theories, and models of comparison; functional processes of administration in developing and developed nations compared; role of bureaucracy in development and nation-building; ecology of administration. | |
| • PPD 485m U.S. Immigration Policy (Fall; irregular) Examination of the historical and contemporary components of U.S. immigration policy with emphasis on policies addressing legal permanent immigrants, refugees, asylees, the undocumented. | |
| • PPD 490x Directed Research (Fall, Spring) Individual research and readings. Not available for graduate credit. Departmental approval. | |
| • PPD 497a Senior Thesis (Fall) Writing of the honors capstone project in an area of interest related to the track of study; research and writing skills. | |
| • PPD 497b Senior Thesis (Spring) Individual research and readings. Not available for graduate credit. Departmental approval. |