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Policy Simulation and Decision Modeling
Course #: PUBPOL 671
Description:
This elective course in the Master of Public Policy program provides an introduction to analytic methods for decision-making to improve planning and operations of public service organizations with a particular focus on mission-driven community-based organizations. A deeper understanding of relevant methods will help organizations better measure the impact of their services, and design new ways to provide these services to optimize efficiency, effectiveness and equity. The course will emphasize iterative, inductive, mixed-methods and critical approaches to empirical problem-solving using two broad classes of analytic methods: simulation and optimization.
Pre Requisites: Pre-requisite = Completion of PPOL-G 611, PUBPOL 620,PPOL-G 621, PUBPOL 610, PPOL-G 602 and PUBADM 602 or PPOL-G 622