MSPPM Advanced Coursework Requirements

Students are required to take each of the following: 12 units of Advanced Policy courses, 12 units of Advanced Methods courses, 6 units of additional Management courses, and 6 units of additional Information Technology courses. Each semester a wide range of courses are offered to satisfy each of these requirements.

Advance Coursework

The Spring semester courses listed below are generally offered in the spring semester, however, students should check the schedule to verify the courses will be offered during the following Spring semester.

Advanced Policy Topics (12 units)

Advanced Policy Topics courses are designed to provide you with an opportunity to explore the substantive aspects of policy making within the context of several policy areas.

Course No.	Title	Sem	Units
90703	Women and Public Policy	Spring	6
90704	Poverty, Inequality and Social Policies	Fall	12
90730	Methods of Policy Analysis	Fall	12
90733	Urban Development	Spring	6
90734	Urban and Regional Economic Development	Spring	6
90736	Public Finance	Fall	12
90743	Urban and Regional Economic Development	Fall	12
90752	The Rise of East Asian Economies	Fall	12
90763	Human Rights Conflicts & Development	Fall	6
90765	Cities, Technology and the Environment	Spring	6
90789	Sustainable Community Development	Spring	12
90798	Environmental Policy & Planning	Fall	12
90808	Energy Policy	Fall	6
90811	Foundations of Social Innovation and Enterprise	Fall	6
90816	Migration Policy	Fall	6
90817	Education Finance and Policy	Spring	12
90822	Immigration Research: Interpretation & Critique	Spring	6
90827	Economics of Development	Spring	12
90842	Public Policy Implementation	Spring	6
90860	Policy in a Global Economy	Fall	6
90861	Health Policy	Fall	6
90882	Behavioral Economics in Public Policy	Fall	12
90894	Policy Topics I: Federal Budget Policy	Fall	6
94806	Privacy in Digital Age	Fall	6

Advanced Methods Courses (12 units)

Advanced Methods courses deepen your understanding of both the tools and topics of policy analysis and management. Many of these courses count toward your concentration area.

Course No.	Title	Sem	Units
90730	Methods of Policy Analysis	Fall	12
90745	Methods of Policy Analysis: International Policy	Spring	12
90747	Cost Benefit Analysis	Spring	6
90774	Public Expenditure Analysis	Spring	12
90823	Program Evaluation	Fall & Spring	12
90866	Large Scale Data Analysis for Public Policy	Spring	6
90905	Statistical Theory for Social and Policy Analysis	Fall	12
90906	Introduction to Econometric Theory	Fall & Spring	12
90908	Ph.D. Microeconomics	Fall	12
94827	SAS for Public Policy	Spring	6
94830	Analysis of Survey Data	Spring	6
94833	Decision Analysis and Multicriteria Decision Making	Fall	6
94834	Applied Econometrics I	Fall & Spring	6
94835	Applied Econometrics II	Fall & Spring	6
94842	Programming R for Analytics	Fall & Spring	6
94867	Decision Analytics for Business and Policy	Spring	12

Additional Management Courses (6 units)

Additional Management courses are designed to equip you to lead and manage organizations in the public interest.

Course No.	Title	Sem	Units
90737	Budget Management Control System	Fall	12
91809	Organizational Change	Spring	6
94800	Negotiation	Fall & Spring	6
94808	Management Consulting	Fall & Spring	12
94811	Strategy Development	Fall & Spring	6
94813	Project Management	Fall & Spring	6
94854	Developing as a Leader	Fall & Spring	6

Additional Information Technology Courses (6 units)

Additional Information Technology courses provide the knowledge to succeed in the following four categories:

Analytics - courses at the intersection of data analytics and information technology
Applications - courses about using or analyzing information technology in organizations and a variety of settings
Strategy - courses on approaches to using information tehcnology as a comparative advantage or to advance the missions of organizations
Systems - courses on or supporting designing, building, and implementing information systems.

All MSPPM students except MS-DA students must take 90-728, Introduction to Database Management plus at least six units from the courses listed below. Students may take additional courses from the lists as advanced policy or methods courses where cross-listed, but students may not use any course to satisfy both an information systems core requirement and an advanced requirement.

Information technology courses that meet the core requirement are listed in four categories:

Analytics—courses at the intersection of data analysis and information technology. There is very high demand for graduates who have analytical skills including a statistical package such as SAS or other advanced statistical software.
Applications—courses about using or analyzing information technology in organizations and a variety of settings. These courses apply information technology to various industries and functional areas of organizations.
Strategy—courses on approaches to using information technology as a comparative advantage or to advance the missions of organizations. These courses address the advantages as well as threats to strategic uses of information technology.
Systems—courses on or supporting designing, building, and implementing information systems. These courses have material at the foundation of information systems and provide comparative advantages for graduates.

Analytics

Course No.	Title	Sem	Units
90866	Large Scale Data Analysis for Public Policy	Spring	6
94827	SAS for Policy Analysis	Spring	6
94830	Analysis of Sample Survey Data	Spring	6
94832	Business Intelligence & Data Mining SAS	Fall & Spring	6
94842	Programming R for Analytics	Fall & Spring	6
95791	Data Mining 1	Fall & Spring	6
95868	Exploring and Visualizing Data	Spring	6

Applications

Course No.	Title	Sem	Units
90834	Health Care Geographic Information Systems	Spring	12
90812	Introduction to Programming with Python	Fall & Spring	6
94706	Health Care Information Systems	Spring	12
94823	Measuring Social	Fall & Spring	12
95732	Marketing Digital Media	Spring	6
95818	Privacy Policy, Technology, and Law	Fall	12
95821	Product Management in Information Technology	Spring	6
95822	IT Consulting	Spring	12
95891	Introduction to AI	Fall	6

Strategy

Course No.	Title	Sem	Units
94806	Privacy in the Digital Age	Fall & Spring	6
95743	Cybersecurity Policy and Governance II	Fall	6
95744	Cybersecurity Policy and Governance I	Fall	6
95752	Introduction to Information Security Management	Fall	12
95775	IT Business Leadership	Fall	6
95794	Tech Startup: Tools and Techniques	Fall	6

Systems

Course No.	Title	Sem	Units
90782	Multimedia	Fall & Spring	12
90801	Desktop Publishing	Fall & Spring	6
94774	Business Process Modeling	Fall & Spring	6
94802	Geographic Information Systems	Fall & Spring	12
95703	Database Management	Fall	12
95797	Data Warehousing	Fall & Spring	6
95808	IT Project Management	Fall & Spring	6