printer friendly pagePUBLPOL 20SI: Designing and Scaling Policy and Business Practices for Global Greentech
This course will focus on designing and scaling best practices of sustainability through corporate actions and government legislation. The course is split into 3 parts. First, students will learn the basics of drafting early legislation and starting corporate initiatives in both the US and internationally. Second, students will disrupt the current framework by applying a design thinking approach to corporate initiatives and public policy. Third, the class will focus on scaling the initiatives to create a global impact.
Terms: Win
| Units: 1-2
| Repeatable
for credit
Instructors:
Wolak, F. (PI)
;
Pinto, C. (TA)
PUBLPOL 55N: Public Policy and Personal Finance (ECON 25N)
The seminar will provide an introduction and discussion of the impact of public policy on personal finance. Voters regularly rate the economy as one of the most important factors shaping their political views and most of those opinions are focused on their individual bottom lines. In this course we will discuss the rationale for different public policies and how they affect personal financial situations. We will explore personal finance issues such as taxes, loans, charity, insurance, and pensions. Using the context of (hypothetical) personal finance positions, we will discuss the public policy implications of various proposals and how they affect different groups of people, for example: the implications of differential tax rates for different types of income, the promotion of home ownership in the U.S., and policies to care for our aging population. While economic policy will be the focus of much of the course, we will also examine some of the implications of social policies on personal finance as well. There will be weekly readings and several short policy-related writing assignments.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 3
| UG Reqs: WAY-SI
Instructors:
Rosston, G. (PI)
PUBLPOL 101: Politics and Public Policy (POLISCI 123, PUBLPOL 201)
How policies come to be formed. How interests compete within public institutions to turn ideas into policies. Examples of this process from contemporary policy areas, including tax, social welfare, and environmental policy; results evaluated using equity and efficiency criteria.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 4-5
| UG Reqs: WAY-SI, GER:DB-SocSci
PUBLPOL 103B: Ethics and Public Policy (MS&E 197, STS 110)
Ethical issues in science- and technology-related public policy conflicts. Focus is on complex, value-laden policy disputes. Topics: the nature of ethics and morality; rationales for liberty, justice, and human rights; and the use and abuse of these concepts in policy disputes. Case studies from biomedicine, environmental affairs, technical professions, communications, and international relations.
Last offered: Winter 2012
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, GER:EC-EthicReas, WAY-ER
PUBLPOL 103C: Justice (ETHICSOC 171, IPS 208, PHIL 171, PHIL 271, POLISCI 3P, POLISCI 136S, POLISCI 336S, PUBLPOL 307)
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 financing schools and elections, regulating markets, discriminating against people with disabilities, and enforcing sexual morality. Counts as Writing in the Major for PoliSci majors.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 4-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, GER:EC-EthicReas, WAY-ER
Instructors:
Olson, K. (PI)
PUBLPOL 104: Economic Policy Analysis (ECON 150, PUBLPOL 204)
The relationship between microeconomic analysis and public policy making. How economic policy analysis is done and why political leaders regard it as useful but not definitive in making policy decisions. Economic rationales for policy interventions, methods of policy evaluation and the role of benefit-cost analysis, economic models of politics and their application to policy making, and the relationship of income distribution to policy choice. Theoretical foundations of policy making and analysis, and applications to program adoption and implementation. Prerequisites:
ECON 50 and
ECON 102B.
Terms: Win, Spr
| Units: 4-5
| UG Reqs: WAY-AQR
Instructors:
Cogan, J. (PI)
;
Rosston, G. (PI)
;
Suarez Serrato, J. (PI)
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Instructors:
Cogan, J. (PI)
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Rosston, G. (PI)
;
Suarez Serrato, J. (PI)
;
Heil, D. (TA)
;
Sun, T. (TA)
PUBLPOL 106: Law and Economics (ECON 154, PUBLPOL 206)
Law as a tool for correcting market and cognitive failures. Design and consequences of laws, given alternative policy objectives. Welfarist approach to legal policy; deontological perspectives including Kant, Mill, and Rawls. Economic efficiency and agent rationality, effects of law on expectations and incentives, balancing costs of type I and type II legal errors. Empirical studies of law's effects. Applications: property, tort, contract, antitrust, discrimination, crime, legal procedure. Examples chiefly from U.S. law, but analytical tools of general applicability. Prerequisite:
ECON 50.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 4-5
| UG Reqs: WAY-SI
Instructors:
Owen, B. (PI)
;
Bade, J. (TA)
;
Chatterji, S. (TA)
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Instructors:
Owen, B. (PI)
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Bade, J. (TA)
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Chatterji, S. (TA)
;
LePham, J. (TA)
;
Vallacher, B. (TA)
PUBLPOL 107: Public Finance and Fiscal Policy (ECON 141)
What role should and does government play in the economy? What are the effects of government spending, borrowing, and taxation on efficiency, equity and economic stability and growth? The course covers economic analysis, statistical evidence and historical and current fiscal policy debates in the U.S. and around the world. Policy topics: Fiscal crises, budget surpluses/deficits; tax reform; social security, public goods, and externalities; fiscal federalism; public investment; and cost-benefit analysis. Prerequisites:
ECON 51,
ECON 52 (can be taken concurrently).
Terms: Spr
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: WAY-SI
Instructors:
Boskin, M. (PI)
PUBLPOL 115: Practical Training
Students obtain employment in a relevant research or industrial activity to enhance their professional experience consistent with their degree programs. At the start of the quarter, students must submit a one page statement showing the relevance of the employment to the degree program along with an offer letter. At the end of the quarter, a three page final report must be supplied documenting work done and relevance to degree program. May be repeated for credit.
Terms: Sum
| Units: 1-10
| Repeatable
2 times
(up to 20 units total)
PUBLPOL 122: Biosecurity and Bioterrorism Response (PUBLPOL 222, SURG 222)
This course provides an overview of the most pressing biosecurity issues facing the world today. Guest lecturers this year include former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, former Special Assistant on BioSecurity to Presidents Clinton and Bush Jr. Dr. Ken Bernard, Chief Medical Officer of the Homeland Security Department Dr. Alex Garza, eminent scientists, innovators and physicians in the field, and leaders of relevant technology companies. The class explores how well the US and global healthcare systems are prepared to withstand a pandemic or a bioterrorism attack, how the medical/healthcare field, government, and the technology sectors are involved in biosecurity and pandemic or bioterrorism response and how they interface, the rise of synthetic biology with its promises and threats, global bio-surveillance, making the medical diagnosis, isolation, containment, hospital surge capacity, stockpiling and distribution of countermeasures, food and agriculture biosecurity, new promising technologies for detection of bio-threats and countermeasures. Open to medical, graduate, and undergraduate students. No prior background in biology necessary. 2 unit option for once weekly attendance (Wed only); 4 unit option for twice weekly attendance (Mon and Wed); 1-2 additional units (for a maximum of 6 units total) for a research paper.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 2-6
Instructors:
Trounce, M. (PI)
;
Eddy, G. (TA)
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