Carnegie Mellon Heinz College

The School of Public Policy and Management at Heinz College offers elective courses taught by faculty and industry practitioners that are leaders in their field. Below is just a sample of electives. You can also choose courses in the Carnegie Mellon Tepper School of Business and the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public and International Affairs.

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Course Number	Title	Faculty
90-744	Accounting and Control in Not for Profit Organizations	Kathleen A. Smith
90-759	Acting for Management	Geoffrey Hitch
95-845	Acting for Management	Geoffrey Hitch
90-748	Addressing Local Government Financial Distress
90-751	Advanced Negotiation in Complex Environments	Linda C. Babcock Jared Simmer
91-845	Advanced Power and Influence	David M. Krackhardt
90-792	Applied Demography	Shelby Stewman
90-770	Applied Econometrics I	Melvin Stephens Victor Pontines
90-771	Applied Econometrics II	Melvin Stephens
90-710	Applied Economic Analysis	Lowell J. Taylor Mark Wessel Victor Pontines
90-866	Artificial Intelligence Tools for Policy	Daniel B. Neill
90-843	Branding and Marketing Strategies for Entrepreneurial Nonprofits and Social Enterprises	Jerr Boschee
90-737	Budgeting And Management Control Systems	Kathleen A. Smith
90-765	Cities, Technology, and the Environment	Joel Tarr
95-848	Consulting Communications	Chris Labash
90-747	Cost-Benefit Analysis	Karen B. Clay Tiong Kiong Lim
90-885	Counterinsurgency History and Theory	Terrence Kelly
90-864	Cross-Cultural Management
90-746	Database Management
90-886	Decision Making in Counterinsurgencies	Terrence Kelly
90-801	Desktop Publishing	Gary Franko
90-807	Diplomacy and Statecraft	Jendayi E. Frazer
90-825	E&TIM Seminar: Innovation Management in Practice
90-738	Economics II	Tiong Kiong Lim
90-827	Economics of Development	Mark Wessel
90-828	Economics of Global Warming	Lee Branstetter
90-711	Empirical Methods For Public Policy And Management	Victor Pontines Daniel Nagin Janusz Szczypula
90-754	Engineering Public Policy Change	Richard A. Stafford
90-874	Entrepreneurship	Barbara Carryer
90-798	Environmental Policy And Planning	Chris W. Brussalis
91-828	Ethical Issues In Management	Peter Madsen
90-745	Ethics and Information Networking
90-758	Ethics and Public Policy	Peter Madsen Riaz Esmailzadeh
90-816	Evidence-Based Management	Jonathan P. Caulkins Denise M. Rousseau
90-724	Financial Analysis	Kathleen A. Smith Tiong Kiong Lim
91-857	Financial Modeling and Analysis	Lynne Pastor
90-715	Gender and Pay Inequality
90-727	Globalization	Silvia Borzutzky
90-777	Globalization and International Trade	Mark Wessel
90-723	Great Policy Problems in Historical Perspective	Karen B. Clay
90-721	Health Care Management	Laura W. Synnott
90-735	Health Economics	Martin S. Gaynor
90-861	Health Policy	David J. Dausey
90-863	Health Policy II	David J. Dausey
90-797	Human Resources Management
91-822	Human Resources Management	Aloysius M. Gallagher
90-796	Human Resources Policy and Modeling
90-763	Human Rights Policy	Silvia Borzutzky
90-804	Industrial Organization
90-802	Information Security: Comparison of US and European Policies	Albrecht Funk
90-732	Information and Communication Technologies	John Huber Wilpen L. Gorr
90-709	Intermediate Economic Analysis	Martin S. Gaynor
90-786	Intermediate Empirical Methods	Shamena Anwar
90-755	Intermediate Management Science I	Robert C. Hampshire
90-775	Intermediate Management Science II: Decision and Risk Modeling	Robert C. Hampshire
90-713	International Politics and Policies	Silvia Borzutzky
90-856	International Project Development and Management - An NGO	Scott Hudson
90-728	Introduction to Database Management	John Huber Karyn E. Moore
90-784	Introduction to GIS	Kristen S. Kurland
90-741	Irregular Warfare in the 21st Century	Terrence Kelly
90-764	Just War in the 21st Century	Terrence Kelly
90-781	Knowledge Management and Infrastructure Planning
90-791	Law and Economics	Karen B. Clay
91-810	Leadership: Innovation And Organizational Change	Lance B. Kurke
91-864	Leading in a Lean and Six Sigma World
91-824	Legal Issues In Human Resources Management	Toni Pellegrini
90-840	Legislative Policy Making	Jon W. Delano
90-762	Macroeconomics	Tiong Kiong Lim
90-862	Making Public Policy in the Real World	Mark Roosevelt
91-807	Management Consulting	Chris W. Brussalis
90-731	Management Methods
90-722	Management Science I: Optimization and Multicriteria Methods	Rema Padman Stephen F. Roehrig
90-760	Management Science II: Decision and Risk Modeling	Jonathan P. Caulkins George T. Duncan
91-851	Managerial And Cost Accounting
90-879	Managerial and Engineering Economics
90-716	Managing In a Multicultural Society
91-844	Managing Quality Improvement	Joseph J. Balestreire
90-778	Media And Public Policy	Jon W. Delano
90-730	Methods Of Policy Analysis	Terry F. Buss Harold D. Miller
90-858	Microfinance and Development
90-726	Money & Politics	Jon W. Delano
90-782	Multi-Media	Gary Franko
90-750	Negotiation	Linda C. Babcock Jared Simmer
91-877	Non-Profit Marketing
90-772	Operations Research
91-809	Organizational Change: Transition And Transformation	Denise M. Rousseau
90-729	Organizational Design And Implementation	David M. Krackhardt
91-800	Organizational Management: Theory And Practice	Terry F. Buss David Lassman
91-808	Performance Management	Denise M. Rousseau
90-719	Physical Technical Systems I
90-720	Physical Technical Systems II
91-816	Planning And Management Of Nonprofit Organizations	Dana Phillips
90-705	Policy Analysis I	Terry F. Buss
90-714	Policy And Politics In American Political Institutions	Silvia Borzutzky
90-854	Policy Decision Modeling Workshop	Jonathan P. Caulkins
90-757	Policy Seminar
90-897	Policy Topics IV: International Development Policy	Jendayi E. Frazer
90-895	Policy Topics: Information Security Policy	Earl N. Crane Michael J. Smith
90-810	Population and Policy	Shelby Stewman
90-753	Population and Public Policy
91-843	Power And Influence	David M. Krackhardt
90-783	Presidential Rhetoric: Power of Persuasion
90-761	Principles of Healthcare Management
91-863	Process Analysis and Improvement
90-823	Program Evaluation	David J. Dausey
91-823	Program Evaluation
91-821	Project Management	Laura W. Synnott Riaz Esmailzadeh
90-774	Public Expenditure Analysis	Robert P. Strauss
90-736	Public Finance	Robert P. Strauss
90-844	Public Leadership	Robert B. Webb
90-812	Public Management
90-842	Public Policy Implementation	Jon W. Delano
90-824	Real Estate Design and Development
90-817	Regional Finance and Education Policy	Robert P. Strauss
90-742	Seminar in Criminal Justice	Alfred Blumstein
90-857	Service Management	Robert C. Hampshire
90-869	Social Enterprise Applied Research	Jerr Boschee
90-845	Social Enterprise Incubator	Jerr Boschee
90-811	Social Innovation, Social Enterprise, Social Change	Jerr Boschee
90-814	Special Topics Technology Innovation Policy
91-858	Spreadsheet Modeling and Analysis for Management Decision Making	Lynne Pastor
90-790	State And Local Finance	Robert P. Strauss
91-815	State and Local Government Law
91-854	Strategic Cost Analysis	Lynne Pastor
91-818	Strategic Marketing/Communications
91-820	Strategic Planning	Laks Iyengar Terry F. Buss
90-718	Strategic Presentation Skills	Pamela Payne Lewis Julia Deems
90-717	Strategic Writing Skills	Edward H. Barr
90-785	Survey Design And Analysis	Justin Hayward Gross
90-794	Survey Sampling Methods
90-768	Sustainability Strategies for Nonprofits: Matching Money to Mission	Jerr Boschee
90-789	Sustainable Community Development
90-739	Systems Synthesis I
90-740	Systems Synthesis II
90-756	Technology and Economic Growth
90-795	Technology and Policy for Disaster and Humanitarian Response
90-855	Technology for Developing Communities
91-813	The American Legal System	Toni Pellegrini
90-749	The Global Economy: A User's Guide	Lee Branstetter
90-776	The Global Financial System: Growth, Crisis & Opportunity	Mark Wessel
90-752	The Rise of the Asian Economies	Lee Branstetter
90-880	The Strategy and Management of Technological Innovation
95-854	Transformational Leadership for Global Enterprises
90-806	Transformational Leadership for Global Enterprises	Cheryl Grise
90-808	U.S. Energy Policy
90-743	Urban And Regional Economic Development	Jerry R. Paytas
90-733	Urban Development	George R. Whitmer
90-734	Urban Policy: Shaping The City
90-769	Welfare Policy Analysis	Gordon Lewis
90-703	Women and Public Policy	Silvia Borzutzky
90-780	Writing for Policy	Edward H. Barr

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