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Policy Courses Offered by the School of Social Work

6820
Women and Social Policy
8404
Seminar in US Social Policy *
8407
Social Policy Analysis *
8506
Inequality, Poverty, and Public Society *



Policy-Relevant Courses Offered at CUSSW and Elsewhere at the University

Students should check the cross-registration procedures and of each school and the course requirements for each course to determine eligibility for taking the course. You are advised to select a first, second or even third choice class, because as cross-registrants you will not have priority for registering for the class and may be blocked from a class due to full enrollment. Also remember that professor or departmental approval may be necessary to enroll in a course.

Students should check CUSSW’s other courses as many of these may be of interest to policy students. Students may also want to check other departments on campus for graduate-level courses, and also check with other graduate schools such as SIPA, Urban Planning, Public Health, and the Law School. It is also important to note that many policy-oriented faculty from around the campus teach courses through SIPA so it is important to check SIPA’s course listings as well as the departmental listings.

The following list of courses in political science and sociology is illustrative and probably not complete. It is meant to give students an idea of the range of courses offered and where to look for courses. In both political science and sociology, courses that have a course number of 4000 or higher are graduate-level courses.


Political Science
POLS W4134
Modern Political Thought
POLS W4145
Political Theory in the Ancient World
POLS W4209
Game Theory and Political Theory
POLS W4461
Latin American Politics
POLS W4476
Korean Politics
POLS W4610
Recent Continental Political Thought
POLS G4628
Philosophy of Social Science
POLS W4808
Weapons, Strategy, and War
POLS W4838
Terrorism & Counterterrorism
POLS W4911
Analysis of Political Data
POLS W4912
Multivariate Political Analysis
POLS G6403
Issues in Comparative Politics


Sociology
SOCI G4020
Civil Society
SOCI G4030
Sociology of Language
SOCI G4075
Introductory Social Data Analysis II
SOCI G4076
Computer Workshop for Introductory Social Data Analysis
SOCI G4324
Survey Methods
SOCI G4520
Social Theory and the City
PSSO G6047
Political Socology: Traditions and Concepts
SOCI G6063
Gender and Stratification


Research Methods Courses

Again, this list is illustrative. It indicates the range of research methods courses that masters and doctoral students have taken in the past. Some of these may be offered in spring 2005 and may be of interest to and open to policy students.


PUAF U6033
Decision Models and Management
INAF U6815
Data Analysis for Policymaking
PUAF U8213
Microeconomics and Policy Analysis I
PUAF U8216
Microeconomics and Policy Analysis II
PUAF U8320
Research Practicum on Poverty and Public Policy
PUAF U8920
Program Evaluation
POLS G4291
Advanced Topics in Quantitative Research
POLS W4910
Quantitative Political Research
POLS G8210
Colloquium on Political Behavior
PSYC G4680
Issues in Research in Motivation, Personality and Development
PUBH P8115 or
STAT W4335
Sample Survey Theory
PUBH P8116 or
STAT W4327
Design of Medical Experiments
PUBH P8120 or
STAT W4120
Analysis of Categorical Data
PUBH P8400
Epidemiology III: Applied Epidemiologic Analysis
PUBH P8404
Epidemiology of Genetics and Aging
PUBH P8410
Reading Seminar in Psychiatric Epidemiology I
PUBH P8417
Selected Problems of Measurement in Epidemiology
PUBH P8438
Epidemiology II: Design and Conduct of Observational Epidemiology
PUBH P8502
Research Methods for Health Policy and Management
PUBH P8541
Cost-benefit Analysis in Health
PUBH P8619
Research Design and Data Collection: Service-based Research I
PUBH P8623
Quantitative Data Analysis: Service-based Research II
PUBH P8637
Qualitative Data Analysis: Service-based Research II
PUBH P8640
Quantitative Methods in Program Evaluation
PUBH P6758
Introduction to Theory and Research on Interpersonal Violence
PUBH P6781
The Use of Large-scale National Health Care Data Sets
PUBH P8705
Seminar in Evaluation of Health Programs
PUBH P8738
Seminar on Gay and Lesbian Issues in Public Health
PUBH P8758
Advanced Seminar on Theory and Research in Interpersonal Violence
PUBH P8767
Health Psychology and Public Health
PUBH P8774
Introduction to Sociomedical Sciences Research Methods
PUBH P8775
Qualitative Research Methods I
PUBH P8777
Survey Research Methods
PUBH P9775
Qualitative Research Methods II
PUBH P9779
Advanced Research Methods and Analysis
SOCI G4097
Designs of Social Research
SOCI G4098
Qualitative Research Methods: Observations, Interviews, and Documents
SOCI G4161
Principles of Theorizing
SOCI G4324
Survey Methods
SOCI G6099
Field Research Methods
SOCI G6670
Research Practicum on Stratification Practices in Organizations
SOCI G9047
Selected Topics in Stratification Analysis
SOCI G9220
Social Structure and Social Action: Micro-foundations and Macrostructures
HBSS 6100
Measurement and Program Evaluation
HUDK 6010
Developmental Research Methods
HUDM 5053
Instrument Design and Validation
HUDM 5058
Choice and Decision Making
HUDM 5059
Psychological Measurement
HUDF 5020
Methods of Social Research: Survey Methods
HUDF 5021
Methods of Social Research: Evaluation Methods
ITSF 5000
Methods of Inquiry: Ethnography and Participant Observation
ITSF 5001
Ethnography and Participant observation: Fieldwork, Analysis, Reporting
ITSF 5002
Ethnography and Participant Observation: Comparative and Qualitative Analysis
ORL 6500
Qualitative Research Methods in Organizations: Design and Data Collection
ORL 6501
Qualitative Research Methods in Organizations: Data Analysis and Reporting
ORL 6518
Methods of Case Study and Analysis
ORLJ 5018
Using Survey Research in Organizational Consulting
ORLJ 5019
Multirater Feedback
ORLJ 5040-1
Research Methods in Social Psychology


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