MPM Courses
Semester Courses
Economic Analysis for Public Policy
3 credits
Examines best practices in qualitative and quantitative policy analysis and guides students toward a deeper understanding of how to balance the requirements of each approach.
Decision Making for Public Policy
3 credits
Develops students' abilities in the crucial executive functions of commissioning, interpreting and communicating policy analysis.
Management of Program Evaluation
3 credits
Develop students' abilities in the key executive function of managing the evaluation of policy program alternatives. Although there will be significant devotion to academic consideration, the course is designed to focus principally on the executive practitioner.
Summer Institutes
Experience and Innovation in Public Management
6 credits
Students explore the nature of management itself and then identify what is distinctive about public management. Among the concepts and issues in this course are leadership, organizational culture, privatization and outsourcing, reorganization, management reform and innovation, performance management, and human resources management.
The Public Policy Process
6 credits
Students will assess the policymaking process in terms of key players and factors at the intersection of politics and policy. The course covers broad policy concepts and theories; the role of institutions and political actors; and key policy areas, including social welfare and national security as substantive cases.
Seminars
Seminars on Public Policy Issues
3 credits
During the program each student enrolls in semester-long seminars. The seminars consist of monthly weekend workshops on current policies issues. Each month the instructor, with the assistance of scholars and senior practitioners, will examine a specific policy issue with a view to leading the group through a team effort at identifying alternative solutions, devising how these might be pursued fiscally and institutionally, and developing a program advocating preferred objectives and the means for achieving these.
Electives
9 credits
Students will complete three elective courses which are selected either from the seven
Georgetown Public Policy Institute tracks,
- Education, Social, and Family Policy
- Environmental & Regulatory Policy
- Health Policy
- Homeland Security
- Nonprofit Policy and Leadership
- Public Management
- International Policy and Development
or from accepted courses in other departments within the University.
Capstone
3 credits
Each student will complete an Applied Policy Management Project. This will take the form of a paper -- of at least 40 pages in length --that demonstrates the student's ability to integrate consideration of analytic, management and advocacy issues in the pursuit of solutions to a specific policy issue. For more information, please consult the
MPM Thesis Guidelines.
