Course Level: Graduate
Selected Topics: Non-recurring (1-6)
Topics vary by section, may be repeated for credit with different topic.
Course Level: Graduate
Selected Topics: Non-recurring (1-6)
Marketing in Nonprofit Organizations
The course provides students with an understanding of the principles of strategic marketing process in nonprofit organizations, from planning through execution and assessment. Students learn how to analyze a market, conduct marketing audit, develop a positioning strategy, focus on consumer behavior and a customer orientation, identify various elements of the marketing mix, create an implementation plan, and evaluate results.
Course Level: Graduate
Selected Topics: Non-recurring (1-6)
Tax Policy
This course analyzes a broad set of tax policy issues with a focus on the institutional details of the tax system at the federal, state, and local levels and relevant policy issues. The course reviews the major tax structures (e.g., individual and corporate income taxes, property taxes, and consumption taxes), considers how the tax system affects and interacts with health care, housing, and energy policy, and evaluates tax policy from the perspective of its impact on the distribution of the tax burden and the economic cost of taxes.
Course Level: Graduate
Selected Topics: Non-recurring (1-6)
Technology-Empowered Public Management
This course explores the impact of information technology on society today, highlights the emergence of new technology tools for the public administrator, and introduces the skill sets and guiding principles necessary to manage the IT-empowered environment of today. It also provides a framework for public policy development in an environment where IT is changing far more quickly than government's ability to change laws and administrative responses to issues.
Course Level: Graduate
Selected Topics: Non-recurring (1-6)
Intergovernmental Fiscal Systems in Developing Countries
This course focuses on issues of coordination and accountability in a decentralized context and considers decentralization and intergovernmental finance from a public finance perspective, including expenditure and revenue assignment, intergovernmental transfer, coordinated budget processes and structures, and public expenditure management.