printer friendly pagePUBLPOL 305B: Public Policy and Social Psychology: Implications and Applications (IPS 207B, PSYCH 216)
Theories, insights, and concerns of social psychology relevant to how people perceive issues, events, and each other, and links between beliefs and individual and collective behavior. Topics include: situationist and subjectivist traditions of applied and theoretical social psychology; social comparison, dissonance, and attribution theories; social identity, stereotyping, racism, and sources of intergroup conflict and misunderstanding; challenges to universality assumptions regarding human motivation, emotion, and perception of self and others; the problem of producing individual and collective changes in norms and behavior.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 4
Instructors:
Ross, L. (PI)
;
Russell, A. (TA)
PUBLPOL 306: Writing and Rhetoric for Policy Audiences
Techniques of effective writing and argument for addressing decision makers, interest groups, and the public. The importance of apparent simplicity; uses and misuses of history and historical analogies; and incentives, cognitive limits, and biases of audiences. Why some arguments become traditional. Sources include historical briefing papers and oral arguments. Students write briefing papers and make oral arguments, individually and in teams. Enrollment limited. Prerequisite: consent of instructor.
Terms: Win
| Units: 4
PUBLPOL 307: Justice (ETHICSOC 171, IPS 208, PHIL 171, PHIL 271, POLISCI 136S, POLISCI 336S, PUBLPOL 103C)
Focus is on the ideal of a just society, and the place of liberty and equality in it, in light of contemporary theories of justice and political controversies. Topics include protecting religious liberty, financing schools and elections, regulating markets, assuring access to health care, and providing affirmative action and group rights. Issues of global justice including human rights and global inequality.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 4-5
Instructors:
Cohen, J. (PI)
PUBLPOL 309: Practicum (IPS 209)
Applied policy exercises in various fields. Multidisciplinary student teams apply skills to a contemporary problem in a major policy exercise with a public sector client such as a government agency. Problem analysis, interaction with the client and experts, and presentations. Emphasis is on effective written and oral communication to lay audiences of recommendations based on policy analysis.
Terms: Aut, Win
| Units: 1-10
| Repeatable
for credit
PUBLPOL 310: Master of Arts Thesis
Restricted to students writing a master's thesis in Public Policy. May be repeated for credit.
Terms: Win, Spr
| Units: 1-5
| Repeatable
1 times
(up to 5 units total)
PUBLPOL 311: Public Policy Colloquium
Weekly colloquia speaker series required for M.P.P. and M.A. in Public Policy students. Themes vary each quarter.
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr
| Units: 1
| Repeatable
4 times
(up to 4 units total)
Instructors:
Owen, B. (PI)
;
Rosston, G. (PI)
PUBLPOL 321: Sentencing, Corrections, and Criminal Justice Policy
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3
Instructors:
Petersilia, J. (PI)
PUBLPOL 112: Public Leadership in Theory and Practice (POLISCI 225S)
Models from Aristotle to the Harvard School of Business concerning what leaders are supposed to do. Students develop expectations of what interactions between national political leaders would be like under each of these theories and a reasonably large (n=300-800) database of actual interactions between presidents and other leaders in business, unions, congress, and administration, using recorded conversations from Kennedy through Nixon. Students assess their expectations and reach conclusions about the usefulness of these theories of leadership and how leadership in public policy making might differ substantially from leadership in enterprise.
PWR 1AH: Writing & Rhetoric 1: The Rhetoric of Multicultural Experience
Rhetorical and contextual analysis of readings; research; and argument. Focus is on development of a substantive research-based argument using multiple sources. Individual conferences with instructor. Exploration of multicultural experience and cultural assimilation, focusing on the theme of social acceptance. See
http://ual.stanford.edu/AP/univ_req/PWR/Courses.html.
Terms: Win, Spr
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: Writing 1
Instructors:
Heredia, A. (PI)
PWR 1AO: Writing & Rhetoric 1: Visual Rhetoric across the Globe: Capturing Culture in Images
Rhetorical and contextual analysis of readings; research; and argument. Focus is on development of a substantive research-based argument using multiple sources. Individual conferences with instructor. Students explore how various images shape key international issues; analyze a range of political cartoons, billboard advertisements, and street-scene photographs; and visit the Cantor Museum and the Hoover Collection to look at the power of propaganda and election posters. Students meet with other students around the world through video conferences or collaborative blogging. See
http://ual.stanford.edu/AP/univ_req/PWR/Req.html.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: Writing 1
Instructors:
O'Brien, A. (PI)
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