GSPP Courses

The MPA Capstone Course is designed to enable each MPA student to write their Capstone Analytic Project, which will address a specific policy or programmatic challenge facing a real-world client. The weekly course meetings are structured to help students further hone their creativity, their analytic capacities and their writing and presentation skills as they develop the project through its various stages. Participants work closely together to learn from and help each other. Each student's final product, their CAP, is a…

The MPA Capstone Course is designed to enable each MPA student to write their Capstone Analytic Project, which will address a specific policy or programmatic challenge facing a real-world client. The weekly course meetings are structured to help students further hone their creativity, their analytic capacities and their writing and presentation skills as they develop the project through its various stages. Participants work closely together to learn from and help each other. Each student's final product, their CAP, is a…

The MPA Capstone Course is designed to enable each MPA student to write their Capstone Analytic Project, which will address a specific policy or programmatic challenge facing a real-world client. The weekly course meetings are structured to help students further hone their creativity, their analytic capacities and their writing and presentation skills as they develop the project through its various stages. Participants work closely together to learn from and help each other. Each student's final product, their CAP, is a…

The MPA Capstone Course is designed to enable each MPA student to write their Capstone Analytic Project, which will address a specific policy or programmatic challenge facing a real-world client. The weekly course meetings are structured to help students further hone their creativity, their analytic capacities and their writing and presentation skills as they develop the project through its various stages. Participants work closely together to learn from and help each other. Each student's final product, their CAP, is a…

The MPA Capstone Course is designed to enable each MPA student to write their Capstone Analytic Project, which will address a specific policy or programmatic challenge facing a real-world client. The weekly course meetings are structured to help students further hone their creativity, their analytic capacities and their writing and presentation skills as they develop the project through its various stages. Participants work closely together to learn from and help each other. Each student's final product, their CAP, is a…

The MPA Capstone Course is designed to enable each MPA student to write their Capstone Analytic Project, which will address a specific policy or programmatic challenge facing a real-world client. The weekly course meetings are structured to help students further hone their creativity, their analytic capacities and their writing and presentation skills as they develop the project through its various stages. Participants work closely together to learn from and help each other. Each student's final product, their CAP, is a…

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This course will be Hybrid. Demystifying Legislative Drafting: An Introduction to Crafting Laws provides background and practical experience in identifying, researching, analyzing, and drafting legislative measures. This is a skills-based experiential course for students to gain a background in drafting and amending legislative measures. The process of drafting legislation can feel daunting because it often addresses complex, public policy problems that are rooted in the law. This course offers valuable insight into the legislative drafting process and will empower students…

Three hours of synchronous lectures per week. This is a synchronous online course. The objective of this course is to improve negotiation skills and to increase the ability to resolve conflicts in a multitude of situations, including public policy disputes. Topics will include: distributive and integrative bargaining; preparation strategies; defense to ploys; power and perceptions; team and multi-party negotiations; political, legislative and regulatory negotiations; emotions and gender, email negotiations, handling difficult negotiators, impact of personality traits and public policy mediation.…

Modernizing policy implementation requires that we substantively rethink how government does business. Beyond agency reform, "agile government" crafts new approaches toward project management, teambuilding, and problem-solving. Leading onward from our fall-module on the foundations of government innovation, this course amplifies the methods, processes, and design-based user-centric mindsets which bring agile governance to life. Students will forge their own learning-paths, expanding upon lessons from invited subject-matter experts. The course aims to galvanize students' creativity, intuition, and pragmatism, as they envision applying…

Course examines current problems and issues in the field of public affairs. Topics may vary from year to year and will be announced at the beginning of the semester.

This course will be Hybrid. Taught by the former Mayor of Oakland, CA, this course will explore how solving society's most complex challenges requires deep collaboration between government and the private and nonprofit sectors, and how cross-sector collaborations succeed in changing public systems and accelerating policy change. Students will leave equipped with practical tools to create and grow successful collaborations and learn through real-world case studies and guest speakers who are leading to change the pressing problems of our time.…

This course develops the skills for managers, business leaders and people leaders to coach their people. Leaders who can coach have the ability to motivate and develop their employees by enabling them to develop themselves and unleash their full potential. The course covers fundamental coaching skills and a coaching model that leaders can apply to their day‐to‐day interactions with their team, direct reports, as well as their peers. Occasionally, the coaching skills can also be applied to situations…

Course examines current problems and issues in the field of public affairs. Topics may vary from year to year and will be announced at the beginning of the semester.

Course Instructor: Micah Weinberg This course will be hybrid. This two credit evening course offered to graduate students focuses on how to usher a good policy proposal through the political process in order to cement it as a new law. After learning more about the democratic systems these activities will have to negotiate, the class will feature a series of external speakers who have engaged in successful advocacy across a range of different policy areas. The primary focus of the…

This course will be co-taught by Ed DeSeve and Rich Callahan. This course teaches applied agile public policy making and agile government implementation in national level cases across varied nations internationally, as well as specific California State cases serving 40 million residents. The course emphasizes analysis of case studies, developing program recommendations, and building public trust based on key practices of agile government, including organizational leadership, mission, evidence-informed solutions, metrics, customers journey, networks, cross-functional teams, innovation incentives, speed, persistence. The course…

The Japan Policy, Culture and History is a student-led initiative that fosters collaboration and idea exchange between Goldman School of Public Policy students and academics, practitioners, and policymakers in Japan. Through Berkeley-based preparation and a Tokyo field component, students will engage issues central to both countries, including economic revitalization and productivity, technology and innovation policy, energy and climate transition, demographic change and aging, labor markets and migration, corporate governance, supply- chain resilience and trade, national security and regional strategy, disaster…

This is a 6 week course meeting during the weeks of January 26th-March 2nd. Opinion columns (op/eds) are a great way to get policy ideas and proposals into the political and social mainstream. Being at GSPP is a great advantage to the prospective op/ed writer--professors and students are writing policy-related, solution-oriented articles that make recommendations. Over the years I have drawn on the work of Hilary Hoynes, Rucker Johnson and Richard Rothstein, as well as my own research. You…