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Special Tuition Rate. Off-Campus: Airlie Conference Center, Warrenton VA.

Special Tuition Rate.

Special Tuition Rate. Beginning the Leadership Journey (0) Students explore their assumptions about management and leadership and review well-known theories of leadership. Discussion topics include the distinction between management and leadership; leader and follower perspectives on leadership; current challenges in leadership and motivation; and what it takes to play a leadership role in organizations today.

Special Tuition Rate.

Special Tuition Rate.

Special Tuition Rate.

Special Tuition Rate.

Special tuition Rate.

Special Tuition Rate.

Special Tuition Rate.

Special Tuition Rate.

Special Tuition Rate.

Special Tuition Rate. Dates and times will be scheduled between the students and their executive coaches August 31- December 19, 2015. Executive Coaching (0) Students have a session with an executive coach based on the survey results of the Emotional and Social Competency Inventory (ESCI), a 360 tool which measures behaviors that contribute to socially and emotionally effective performance. The ESCI feedback report shows how others, including manager(s), direct reports, peers, etc., experience the student's behavior in terms of the consistency with which he/she demonstrates the 12 emotional and social intelligence competencies. Open only to OIG students.

Special Tuition Rate.

Special Tuition Rate.

Special Tuition Rate.

Special Tuition Rate.

Special Tuition Rate.

Special Tuition Rate.

Special Tuition Rate.

Special Tuition Rate.

Special Tuition Rate.

Special Tuition Rate.

Special Tuition Rate.

Special tuition Rate.

Special Tuition Rate.

Instructional Method: Online.

Instructional Method: Online.

Admission to MPA/MPP program required.

Instructional Method: Online.

State and Local Management (3) This course acquaints students with the major features and theories of state and local administration, with an emphasis on the intergovernmental context in which these governments function. The course uses political, legal, fiscal, and managerial perspectives to examine selected policy areas including education, health and welfare, economic development, and others.

Instructional Method: Online.

Instructional Method: Online.

Special Tuition Rate.

Special Tuition Rate.

Special Tuition Rate. Language of Statistics (1.5) This course covers a number of techniques and strategies designed to enhance analytic and decision-making skills. The primary objective is to equip students to interpret statistics that are widely used in statistical reports, studies, evaluation, etc., with a focus on how these statistics can aid management policy and decision making, and problem solving.

Special Tuition Rate.

Special Tuition Rate.

Special Tuition Rate.

Instructional Method: Online.

Special Tuition Rate. Executive Clarity (1.5) This course focuses on the elements of effective writing and covers subjects such as organizing concepts and pre-writing, wordiness, parallel structure, paragraphing, subordination, passive voice, transition, report structure, nominalizations, prepositional decay, proofreading, and document design and layout. Meets with PUAD-628 901.

Special Tuition Rate. Executive Clarity (1.5) This course focuses on the elements of effective writing and covers subjects such as organizing concepts and pre-writing, wordiness, parallel structure, paragraphing, subordination, passive voice, transition, report structure, nominalizations, prepositional decay, proofreading, and document design and layout. Meets with PUAD-628 900.

Instructional Method: Online.

Special Tuition Rate.

Instructional Method: Online.

Special Tuition Rate.

Special Tuition Rate.

Special Tuition Rate.

Special Tuition Rate.

Special Tuition Rate. Travel Dates: November 2-12, 2016. Travel Location: Amsterdam, Netherlands.

Special Tuition Rate.

Special Tuition Rate. Travel Dates: November 4-10, 2016. Travel Location: Amsterdam, Netherlands.

Instructional Method: Online.

Instructional Method: Online.

Instructional Method: Online.

Instructional Method: Online.

Special Tuition Rate.

Instructional Method: Online.

Public Policies for the Environment and Energy (3) This course provides a review, analysis, and evaluation of environmental and energy policies, including energy production and consumption, air and water pollution, climate change, regulation of toxic chemicals, land and resource management, habitat protection, and the effects of new and emerging technologies. The course considers substantive issues, strategies, analytical approaches, and the political perspectives that influence policy framing, evaluation, and implementation.

Grant Management (3) This course exposes students to skills necessary to design and manage projects of various sizes. The course also discusses the skills needed to seek external funding, with particular attention to grant seeking and grant writing. The focus is not on a particular grant-maker, sector, or national context; the skills and tools students learn transcend organizational, sectoral, and national boundaries.

Nonprofit Policy, Advocacy, and Law (3) This course examines both how policy influences nonprofits as well as how nonprofits impact policy. It addresses the role of nonprofit organizations in the public policy process including advocacy strategies and techniques and examines how laws shape nonprofit involvement in that process. The course also reviews state and federal policy that enables and regulates nonprofits, including legal forms, tax exemption, fundraising regulations, and employee compensation.

Housing Policy (3) This course gives students a comprehensive overview of U.S. affordable housing policy since the 1930s. Emphasis is given to federal initiatives and systems focused on financing, building, and maintaining affordable housing units across the country. Topics covered include public housing, urban renewal, vouchers (and other mobility programs), public housing demolition, HOPE VI developments, Low Income Housing Tax Credits, subprime lending, and various mechanisms of housing finance.

Nonprofits and Public Policy (3) This course examines both how public policy influences nonprofits as well as how nonprofits impact public policy. It addresses the role of nonprofit organizations in the public policy process including advocacy strategies and techniques, and examines how laws shape nonprofit involvement in that process. The course reviews how state and federal policies enable and regulate nonprofits in areas such fundraising, human resource management, and tax exemptions, including legal matters, tax exemption, fundraising regulations, and employee compensation.

Child/Family Policy (3) This multidisciplinary course examines the complex policies and programs through which services are delivered to children, youth, and families. It provides students with the critical skills, abilities, and substantive knowledge necessary to be effective policy analysts or program managers. It includes welfare, maternal employment and child well-being; marriage, family structure and responsible fatherhood/child support; child care; early child education; primary and secondary schooling; child welfare; teen pregnancy prevention; children's health (including obesity); and family leave policies. The course incorporates case studies, lectures, in-class debates, policy memoranda, and a sequential policy analysis project.

Conduct of Inquiry III (3) This doctoral level course covers extensions of the basic linear regression model including quasi-experimental methods for estimating causal effects using cross sectional and longitudinal data, multilevel modeling, and time series analysis. The course assumes that students have a firm grasp of classical hypothesis testing and the properties of the OLS estimator. Prerequisite: GOVT-613.