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Practicum:  Professors Pulizzi and Liang 

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Practicum:  Professors Pulizzi and Liang 

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While undertaking an approved professional practicum in your field, you will be responsible for completion of an applied project demonstrating your application of degree program learning goals and the project's connection to your professional community of practice. Practicum is a learning opportunity that enables you to demonstrate, integrate, apply, deepen, and reflect on the core competencies of your degree(s).

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Monday & Wednesday, 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM, CMDC

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Economic Statecraft: Culture & Conflict Resolution, Dr. Robert Rogowsky

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Economic Statecraft: Culture & Conflict Resolution, Dr. Robert Rogowsky

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The growing dominance of economic relations among nations requires a keen understanding of economic statecraft. Statecraft is the resolution of conflicts between governments and private parties. An essential skill for economic statecraft is to understand conflict.

To facilitate our exploration of conflict, the course draws from the field of conflict analysis and resolution, a field which seeks to intervene constructively in conflicts. However, constructive intervention demands that we think critically about conflict in order to discern its underlying causes and to understand its dynamics. From such an understanding, you may develop meaningful objectives to address, resolve, or perhaps even transform the conflict into something constructive. Moreover, objectives grounded in a thorough understanding of the conflict should drive the intervention strategy. If the linkage between analytic findings, objectives, and strategy is present, then the likelihood of a constructive outcome increases substantially. The course is designed to help you to think more critically about conflict, providing you with some tools to structure your analysis, shape your intervention objectives, and develop your strategy to achieve those objectives.

This course is inherently multi and interdisciplinary, drawing on conceptual frameworks derived from psychology, sociology, anthropology, international relations, political science, economics, and other social sciences, but also informed by all fields of human inquiry. Students will critically apply theories to seek a better understanding of conflicts, to intervene constructively, and to advance theory and practice related to statecraft.

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Budget & Finance: Public & Non-Profit Organizations, Dr. Natalie Webb

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Budget & Finance: Public & Non-Profit Organizations, Dr. Natalie Webb

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This course provides an introduction to budgeting and financial and financial analysis in governmental and nongovernmental organizations. Topics to be covered include budget systems; improved management of resources; budgetary decision making including the activities of allocating, using, and accounting for resources, and activities associated with securing resources. The course will help to maximize organizations’ potential for mission impact and results, specifically focusing on measuring organizational performance and financial stewardship in terms of impact, performance budgets, and accountability. Students will also learn economics concepts that support budgetary and financial decision making, and practical financial management tools to improve stewardship among nonprofit and government managers and leaders.

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Wednesday, 4:00 PM - 6:50 PM, MGWN DLC DSPACE

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Organizational Development & Leadership, Dr. Mahabat Baimyrzaeva

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Organizational Development & Leadership, Dr. Mahabat Baimyrzaeva

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This course offers you a meaningful learning opportunity to understand what it takes for organizations - a group of people with a shared goal – to work together and get things done. This presupposes a good understanding of human motivation and drivers of behavior and how to problem solve and make decisions in complex situations. These also happen to be the highest ranked among the 21stcentury skills. To learn about how organizations operate and how to lead them effectively, we will use readings, exercises, and case studies among other learning methods. In addition, you will engage in analysis, diagnosis, and problem-solving exercises focusing on one organization of your choice.

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Seminar: Qualitative Data Analysis, Dr. Kent Glenzer

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Seminar: Qualitative Data Analysis, Dr. Kent Glenzer

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This hands-on course focuses on analysis of qualitative data. “Qualitative data”, refers to interview, focus group, written reports and visual records; hundreds of pages of them. Qualitative data sets will be provided, as there is no time in this short course to engage in primary data collection. Our entire focus will be on a) deciding how to interrogate the data (what is it you wish to know, demonstrate, reveal, test?), b) developing code books and coding, c) inter-coder reliability, and d) a wide variety of analytical approaches you can use, once you have qualitative data reduced and organized.

This course emphasizes the importance of learning-through-doing, making mistakes, and collaborative analysis (qualitative inquiry is almost always improved through collaboration). Your final product will be a written analysis that summarizes your findings.

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Seminar: Indo-Pacific: Security, Trade, and Development, Dr. Wei Liang

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Seminar: Indo-Pacific: Security, Trade, and Development, Dr. Wei Liang

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Indo-Pacific is a dynamic region of great importance by virtue of its population size, economic dynamism, and political and social challenges. The region is characterized by diversity in historical, civilizational, and ethno-cultural backgrounds, political systems, levels of economic development, and foreign relations, as well as global impact.  This course will examine a broad range of security, political, economic and social issues that present both opportunities and challenges to the regional countries and the United States.  Given this dynamic geopolitical and geoeconomic context, this course is designed to give students a greater understanding of the problems and prospects of the region, as well as the ability to assess its efforts to adapt to the changing regional and international environment. Particular attention will be paid to the US-China competition for influence in the region; China is increasingly present as an economic and military power, and both the Trump and Biden Administrations have appeared to be putting competition with China at the forefront of its Indo-Pacific strategy. This may make it more difficult for countries in the region to navigate these relations. In addition to traditional security threats, we will spend ample time exploring the non-traditional security threats that plague the region, including human trafficking and environmental insecurity.

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Monday, 4:00 PM - 5:50 PM, McGowan DLC Space

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Program Evaluation for Social Change Organizations, Dr. Scott Pulizzi

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Program Evaluation for Social Change Organizations, Dr. Scott Pulizzi

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This seminar introduces participants to a variety of monitoring, evaluation, adapting, and learning (MEAL) approaches that are used by public sector and nongovernmental professionals in organizations engaged in social change and human development work. We will engage with the meaning, perspectives, and methods of evaluation, as well as power dynamics that influence the profession. This includes choosing designs appropriate to the stages of a program cycle, identifying and meaningfully engaging different stakeholders through participatory approaches, collecting data that is most useful to stakeholders, monitoring implementation, understanding causality, appreciating the limits of what can be measured through evaluation techniques, upholding ethics in evaluation, and using information generated through evaluations to improve programs and policies and to promote organizational learning.

Seminar participants will review and critique evaluations of social and human development projects sponsored by foundations, civil society organizations, governments, and multilateral agencies. The course concludes with participants presenting an original monitoring, evaluation, adapting, and learning plan where they apply critical seminar concepts to a project of their choice developed iteratively over the semester.

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International Trade Law/Dispute Resolution, Dr. Warren Small

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International Trade Law/Dispute Resolution, Dr. Warren Small

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This course will provide students with an introduction to the primary international rules, regimes and organizations governing international trade and international investment. By understanding the principles of international trade law and how it is applied through a treaty regime developed to monitor and enforce international trade law, students will gain an appreciation of the crucial role these that international trade law and its enforcement play in shaping and determining the flow of international trade and investment. Students will gain an understanding of the specific rules and regulations that govern international trade and how those rules and regulations are applied and enforced. Students will gain practical experience in applying these rules and regulations to real world international trade disputes in order to gain an appreciation of the process involved in resolving these disputes. As a result, students should be able to determine whether or not a particular state’s action(s) is (are) a violation of an international trade regulation and more importantly, how a trade dispute arising from an alleged violation(s) is resolved.

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Economics of Inequality, Dr. Jeff Dayton-Johnson & Dr. Fernando DePaolis

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Economics of Inequality, Dr. Jeff Dayton-Johnson & Dr. Fernando DePaolis

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Is global inequality increasing or decreasing? Experts differ on the right answer to that straightforward question. In this course, students will explore various concepts of economic inequality, including a consideration of measurement and data issues. The course will review key theories of the relationship between economic inequality and economic development, including the causes and consequences of inequality levels. For Spring 2022, the course will devote considerable space to the mutual impacts of inequality and COVID-19. Student’s work will include group projects, written and oral communication, and reading of a variety of technical and non-technical texts. The course, which satisfies either of the Development Paradigms or the Economics requirement, will be offered in-person and will be accessible to online learners.

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Wednesday, 12:00 PM - 1:50 PM, MGWN DLC DSPACE

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Seminar: Social Innovations, Dr. Mahabat Baimyrzaeva

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Seminar: Social Innovations, Dr. Mahabat Baimyrzaeva

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Public sector has been lagging behind others in innovating its services and the ways it operates, makes, and implements policies. Meanwhile social challenges it is expected to tackle are increasing in scale and complexity. To remain relevant and effective, leading public organizations from around the world have been applying innovative methods with promising outcomes. This course helps students learn and synthesize cutting edge social innovations and methods, and apply them to real life local projects. The innovation skills and knowledge from this course can be applied to other sectors and interventions.

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Introduction to Trade Policy & Institutions, Dr. Wei Liang

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Introduction to Trade Policy & Institutions, Dr. Wei Liang

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This course provides a multidimensional introduction to international trade policy. The course is structured to provide students with a thorough understanding of the political economy of trade and the ever-evolving nature of policy issues that are confronted by those engaged in international trade. Its purpose is to provide students with an understanding of international trade economics, rules, politics and institutions, and the major policy issues facing the global trading system. The course begins with an exploration of the theories of international political economy, the rationales for free trade & protection, the distributional impact of trade, and the challenges presented by deeper international economic integration. The course then considers the World Trade Organization (WTO). It explores negotiation mechanisms and principles, and the rules relating to market access, dispute settlement, fair trade, safeguards and trade-related intellectual property (TRIPs). The final section considers major issues facing the global trading system. These include regional trading arrangements, foreign investment, labor standards, trade and environment and the implication of the current global financial crisis on international trade.

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Power, Social Change, & Organizations, Dr. Kent Glenzer

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Power, Social Change, & Organizations, Dr. Kent Glenzer

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Complex social problems are beyond the capacity of any single organization – or sector -- to solve.

Their sheer intractability suggests that we need new ways of both understanding the problems themselves and imagining solutions that span across the public, private, and non-profit sectors. This course will look at one such intractable problem – the fact that a very large percentage of workers in the United States do not come close to earning a living wage – and unpack the multiple reasons for this and the harms to society that this situation creates. The course will then challenge students to identify pathways forward towards achieving a society in which all workers receive a living wage. Learners will master tools and approaches for power, institutional, and hegemonic analysis; acquire knowledge about the actions needed to bring together odd bedfellows (organizations/sectors that do not normally work together); gain understanding of what a true living wage is in the US and how to calculate it; and will build a sophisticated understanding regarding how structural social change actually happens…vs. how we may wish it happens.

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Intro to Network Analysis, Dr. Philip Murphy

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Intro to Network Analysis, Dr. Philip Murphy

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This course introduces students to the skills and concepts at the core of a dynamic and rapidly developing interdisciplinary field. Network analytic tools focus on the relationships between nodes (e.g., individuals, groups, organizations, countries, etc.). We analyze these relationships to uncover or predict a variety of important factors (e.g., the potential or importance of various actors, organizational vulnerabilities, potential subgroups, the need for redundancy, social and economic ties, growth within a network, …). Although the security field has received the greatest amount of recent attention (covert or terrorist networks), these tools can offer valuable insight into a variety of disciplines. The combination of – often stunning – visual analytic techniques with more quantitative measures accounts for much of the increasing worldwide popularity of this field.

At the end of the semester, students will be able to:

Explain and apply a number of the concepts that underpin network analysis;

Apply concepts such as centrality, brokerage, equivalence and diffusion to network data;

Critically evaluate structures and substructures within a network;

Perform a variety of approaches to clustering and cohesion to networks; and

Analyze networks using a variety of software packages.

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International Migration, Security, & Human Rights, Dr. William Arrocha

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International Migration, Security, & Human Rights, Dr. William Arrocha

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In the context of a more integrated yet unequal global economic system, of growing international and national security concerns, humanitarian crises and skill shortages, migration and immigration have become central to economic, political and social debates. This seminar is meant to engage in these debates by studying the intricate links between the ever increasing flows of peoples across borders; the national and international security dilemmas facing states and regions; and the urgent need to fully implement and redefine the international and domestic laws pertaining to Human Rights. [collapse]

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Policy & Data Analytics, Dr. Philip Murphy

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Policy & Data Analytics, Dr. Philip Murphy

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This course is a guided introduction to conceptualizing problems and making sense of quantitative information in the policy sphere. The course begins by introducing the theory and practice of policy analysis. The stages of the public policy process and methods for structuring policy inquiry are introduced to provide a means for deconstructing policy problems and asking relevant and practical questions in a policy context.

Next the class is introduced to how such questions are addressed using quantitative tools. Topics to be covered include sampling, estimation, hypothesis testing, analysis of variance, and regression techniques. This will basically be a primer on applying inferential statistics to policy problems. The course will also include introductory training in the use of innovative statistical software, as well as Excel statistical functions.

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Seminar: 21st Century Trade Issues, Dr. Robert Rogowsky

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Seminar: 21st Century Trade Issues, Dr. Robert Rogowsky

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The global marketplace has become more integrated, more vibrant, and more complex. As a result, it becomes more difficult to analyze, to negotiate, and to navigate. The complications and difficulties are increasingly housed and addressed within the ambit of trade policy. This course explores the changing structure of international commerce underlying and driving the trade relations evolving across the world and focuses on the most pressing trade issues that are looming for the next 5 years.

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Monday & Wednesday, 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM, Morse B106

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Development Theory and Practice, Dr. William Arrocha

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Development Theory and Practice, Dr. William Arrocha

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This course introduces students to the field of International Development as well as the key ideas, major debates and politics that inform its theoretical and practical boundaries. The first section of the course covers the theoretical debates around the intricate connections between economic, social and political development. The remaining sections discuss specific issue areas, such as globalization, human rights, human security, gender equity, and ideas of sustainable development. The purpose of this course is to provide students with a general and critical understanding of the field of International Development and an opportunity to begin to narrow down their own interests. It is organized by in-class discussions and the screening of documentary films with a strong focus on alternative approaches and social justice. As it is a course geared towards future practitioners and policy experts in development, the key assignments are focused on acquiring strong analytical tools accompanied by persuasion and influencing skills.