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First Year
The first year is dedicated to a core curriculum centered on the comparative and critical analysis of the principle theories and techniques associated with contemporary public policy. Throughout the first year, the courses will emphasize theoretical bases, analytical techniques, leadership skills, and exemplary case studies, in a comparative and critical light.
Students take three core courses and choose two or three electives each semester, do one study trip, follow a special lecture series on Global Public Policy, and may in addition take up to two languages (usually French plus another world language) and follow the professional development courses.

FIRST SEMESTER SECOND SEMESTER
Required introduction:
  • Organizations and Leadership: Situating Ourselves in Complex Settings

Core courses:
  • Public Policy and Politics: State Restructuring and Policy Change: Government and Governance

Register for one only according to your result on placement test

  • Quantitative Analysis: Statistics and Data Analysis for Policymakers Level 1A
  • Quantitative Analysis: Statistics and Data Analysis for Policymakers Level 2

Register for one only according to your result on placement test

  • Economics: Microeconomics for Public Policy Level 1A
  • Economics: Microeconomics for Public Policy Level 2
  • Economics: International Macroeconomics and Policy Making Level 1A
  • Economics: International Macroeconomics and Policy Making Level 2

Electives:
  • Organizations and Leadership: Scenario Planning Lab
  • Law: Global Governance
  • Policymaking in Transitional Situations: Policy-making in Transition
  • Critical Policy Challenges: Managing Innovation in the Globalizing Learning Economy
  • Critical Policy Challenges: International Security and Public Policy
  • Public Policy and Politics: State-society Relations and Political Institutions
  • Policymaking in Transitional Situations: EU/Asia in a Comparative Perspective

Optional courses:
Language I: 3 credits
Language II: 0 credits

Professional development:
  • Career Navigation, Workshops, and GPP Round Tables are to be taken in the first and second years.
Required study trip course:
  • Los Angeles and Mexico City (pass/fail)

Core courses:
  • Public Policy and Politics: Governing by Delegation
  • Public Policy and Politics: Comparative Public Management

    Only for those who took Level 1A in the first semester (2.5 credits each) :
  • Quantitative Analysis: Statistical and Data Analysis for Policymakers Level 1B
  • Economics: Microeconomics for Public Policy Level 1B
  • Economics: International Macroeconomics and Policy Making Level 1B

Electives:
  • Organizations and Leadership: Management of Organizational and Institutional Conflict
  • Public Policy and Politics: From Analysis to Policy
  • Critical Policy Challenges: Environmental Policies and Politics
  • Law: Law and Globalization
  • Critical Policy Challenges: International Public Health
  • Organizations and Leadership: Transnational Collective Action
  • Organizations and Leadership: Organizational Leadership and Ethics
  • Policymaking in Transitional Situations: East Asian Political Economy in Transition
Optional courses:
Language I: 3 credits
Language II: 0 credits

Professional development:
  • Career Navigation, Workshops, and GPP Round Tables are to be taken in the first and second years.

Key to MPA courses (NB. Unless otherwise indicated, course credits are as follows):
R core course (5 credits)
R2 second-year only core course (5 credits)
E elective course, open to first- and second-year students (5 credits)
E2 second-year only elective course (5 credits)
RC second-year concentration course (5 credits)
RCM second-year methods course (6 credits)
RCAP2 second-year capstone tutorial (12 credits)

FIRST YEAR COURSES

Semester 1 Title of Module Instructor Download
CORE COURSES Situating Ourselves in Complex Settings Erhard Friedberg
State Restructuring and Policy Change: Government and Governance Patrick Le Galès

Statistics and Data Analysis for Policymakers - Level 1A Bruno Cautrès

Statistics and Data Analysis for Policymakers - Level 2 Bruno Cautrès

International Macroeconomics and Policy Making - Level 1A Francesco Saraceno
International Macroeconomics and Policy Making - Level 2 Francesco Saraceno
Microeconomics for Public Policy - Level 1A Anton Granik

Microeconomics for Public Policy - Level 2 Anton Granik

ELECTIVES
Global Governance Sabino Cassese
Policy-making in Transition Daniel Vaughan-Whitehead
Managing Innovation in the Globalizing Learning Economy Bengt-Ake Lundvall
International Security Ghassan Salamé
State-society Relations and Political Institutions Emiliano Grossman
EU/Asia in a Comparative Perspective François Bafoil
Scenario Planning Lab Vianney Basse & Thierry Senechal
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Career Navigation Christian Vie  
  Workshop: Change in Organizations

Erhard Friedberg and Yves Morieux
Workshop: Behavioral Game Theory Bernard Ruffieux
  Workshop: Frontier Issues in Global Governance and the Role of Key Actors Yves Tiberghien
  Workshop: The International Financial Crisis Philip Ward
  Workshop: Creativity and Innovation Bengt-Ake Lundvall
  GPP Round Table    
OPTIONS Language 1    
Language 2    


Semester 2 Title of Module Instructor Download
CORE COURSES Comparative Public Management Kent Weaver
Governing by Delegation Mark Thatcher & Hitomi Kubo
International Macroeconomics and Policy Making - Level 1B Francesco Saraceno
Statistical and Data Analysis for Policymakers – Level 1B Bruno Cautrès
Microeconomics for Public Policy – Level 1B Anton Granik
REQUIRED STUDY TRIP Los Angeles and Mexico City  
ELECTIVES Management of Organizational and Institutional Conflict Raymond Saner
Law and Globalization Jean Bernard Auby & Wilfried Bolewski
Environmental Policies and Politics Stephanie Pincetl
International Public Health Henri Bergeron and Patrick Castel
Transnational Collective Action Virginie Guiraudon
From Analysis to Policy Chris Brooks
Organizational Leadership and Ethics Erhard Friedberg and Eric Jean Garcia
East Asian Political Economy in Transition Yves Tiberghien
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT Career Navigation Christian Vie  
Workshop: International Relations and Intercultural Behavior Philippe Pierre and Michel Sauquet
Workshop:Advocacy Communications Training 1 Tom Lansner
Workshop: Advocacy Communications Training 2 Tom Lansner
Workshop: The Construction of the French Republican Model Hélène Marineau
Summer Project    
GPP Round Table    
OPTIONS Language 1    
Language 2    


Summer
Research project, internship or work		  
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