ALT The UConn School of Public Policy logo. The words PP 5397 - Special Topics: Equity in Public Policy and Evaluation - Wednesday - 6:30pm - 9:00pm - Hartford - Focus Area: Public Policy - publicpolicy.uconn.edu/courses"

ALT The words "Favorite Course Friday - PP 5373 / PP 3032 - Budgeting in Public Service Organizations - In this course, students will explore various public budgeting and financial management issues facing decision makers. The budget represents an organization’s priorities, and as such, is arguably its most important policy document. Further, budget approaches send strong incentives through an organization—for good or ill. As a result, the budget process is where policy and management intersect. In the end, students will be familiar with important public budgeting issues, understand different budget and finance concepts, and be able to construct and analyze simple budgets using Microsoft Excel. - Focus Area: Public Financial Management”

ALT The words "Favorite Course Friday - PP 5303 / PP 3033 / AFRA 3033 - Race and Public Policy - This course focuses on an examination of contemporary public policy through the lens of race. Students will begin by looking at the policy process, the racial and ethnic composition of the United States, the impact of immigration, and the malleability of race and ethnicity. Throughout the course, students will analyze past public policies that systematically disadvantaged African Americans compared to their White American counterparts through de jure discrimination and will discuss why policies designed to remedy the resulting disparities have seemed unsuccessful at closing the Black/White wealth gap. Finally, students will trace this gap to the public policy of slavery in the United States and brainstorm about ways how this gap can be reduced or eliminated through race-related public policy proposals regarding reparations for African American descendants of the enslaved. - Focus Areas: Public