This course examines environmental policy using economic analysis. The first half introduces core environmental economics concepts, including microeconomic review, market failures, and cost-benefit tools for evaluating policy and pollution levels, along with common policy solutions. The second half explores real-world challenges in policy implementation, such as unintended incentives, economy-wide effects, and strategic interactions between regulators and polluters.

This course focuses on making students more effective at identifying and designing AI use cases to create novel AI-powered products and services. Students will work with a variety of AI technologies across several projects. They will gain a deep understanding of design considerations for incorporating AI into products in ways that create value for users and businesses.

Research origins of gun violence in American society, in conjunction with engaging with various stakeholders to propose sensible solutions to this problem. Assigned to Baltimore, Richmond, or Washington, DC & will participate in a visit to their locale to gain insights from politicians, policymakers, public safety professionals, & members of the public on the policies & programs that have been implemented to mitigate the prob. of gun violence.

What does it mean to prioritize equity in policy? Equity must be operationalized & incorporated into all policy stages: agenda setting, design, implementation, & evaluation. Consider frameworks & tools for centering equity in policy design: engage disadvantaged communities; evaluate degree current policies promote equity, examine policy histories & differential impacts; surface apparent tradeoffs in elevating equity over other analytic concerns.

Applied Policy Clinics Topics Course

This course provides the opportunity to offer new topics in Creative Writing and is open to both undergraduate and graduate students.

Investigates a selected issue in public policy or leadership.

Caring well for an aging population is among the greatest challenges facing both the United States and the world. Significant gaps persist between the health and social systems that older adults need, and those to which they have access. This course uses a multidisciplinary approach--encompassing history, public health, ethics, the social sciences, and literature--to explore these gaps, their impact, and their meaning.

This course is an introduction to clinical ethics, which concerns the identification, analysis, and resolution of ethical problems arising in patient care. The course deals with two tiers of ethical problems occurring frequently in the clinical setting: those that are present in every clinical encounter and special problems that arise with particular patients.

Independent research for undergraduate students enrolled in the BA/BS/MPH 5 year program or other programs that may be related to Public Health or Ethics.