Ph.D. in Public Policy Curriculum
Ph.D. Core
P A 095 - Public Affairs Colloquium
0 credit hours
Designed to be taken every semester, this course provides an informal classroom setting for distinguished visitors, guest faculty, and lecturers to interact with LBJ School students. The course also provides a forum for professional development activities initiated and planned by students.
P A 390C - Advanced Research Methods
3 credit hours
This course identifies and teaches research methods appropriate for each student's research plan. The course serves as a forum for synthesizing the roles of descriptive, prescriptive, and inferential modeling in policy research; exercising modern formal descriptive and inferential methods; and managing research information, small- and large-scale databases, and geographical information systems.
P A 391C - Policy Research Paradigms
3 credit hours
This course examines the basic assumptions, forms of analysis, and methods of assessment used by social science disciplines in developing social science research approaches to policy problems.
P A 392C - Theories of Public Policy
3 credit hours
This course explores theories of public policy, emphasizing the historical development of policymaking institutions, the intellectual development of the discipline, and the role that theory may be expected to play in public policymaking.
P A 398T - Supervised Teaching in Public Affairs
3 credit hours
