Spring 2013 Course Highlights Template.docx - NYU Wagner

PNP Course Highlights
Spring 2013
*** WEIGHTED PRE-REGISTRATION LOTTERY FOR SELECT COURSES ***
Wagner will hold a pre-registration lottery process for high-demand courses. This weighted lottery process will
allow students to request these courses without having to rush to place a registration request immediately
after registration opens on Albert. In the pre-registration process, students will use an online request form
instead of using Albert.
The online form will be available at http://wagner.nyu.edu/courses / from Friday, October 26 at 9:00 am
until Thursday, November 1 at 5:00 pm. It does not make any difference when during the pre-registration
period you submit the form. Please read the important information and directions below.
Selection for seats in the lottery courses will be based on certain weighted factors, including whether the
course is a requirement for the student’s specialization, how many semesters a student has remaining at
Wagner, etc. In cases where there are multiple sections of a course available, a student’s section preference
will also be part of the weighting. Having previously attempted to pre-register for a course will also be a
weighting factor (i.e., if you didn't get into the class in Fall 2012 and enter the pre-registration for the same
course in Spring 2013, you will be given preference).
If there are enough seats in the course for all of the students in a tier to be enrolled, all of those students will
be enrolled. If there are not enough seats for all of the students in a tier to be enrolled, students in that tier will
be randomly ordered and placed in the course or on the waitlist according to that order.
Everyone who enters the weighted lottery will be notified on Thursday, November 8 about whether they
have secured a seat in a course or their position on the waitlist (if appropriate). Students will be provided with
a unique permission number so that they may register for the course via Albert, when Albert registration opens
on Monday, November 12. Students must register themselves, using the permission number, before 11:59 pm
on the evening of Wednesday, November 14. Students must clear any holds on their account (bursar’s hold,
etc.) since the codes will expire if not used by November 14.
Students in a lottery course waitlist position will be manually placed on the waitlist by Wagner on Thursday,
November 15. The courses in the lottery will be open to all students for registration on Albert on Friday,
November 16.
The Spring 2013 pre-registration courses are (updated on 10/24/12):
1 PADM-GP 2135 Developing Human Resources
2 PADM-GP 2140 Public Economics and Finance
3 PADM-GP 2170 Performance Measurement
4 PADM-GP 2171 Program Analysis and Evaluation
5 PADM-GP 2173 Operations Management for Public, Nonprofit and Health Contexts
6 PADM-GP 2201 Institutions, Governance and International Development (002 w/Natasha Iskander)
7 PADM-GP 2310 Understanding Social Entrepreneurship
8 PADM-GP 2411 Policy Formation
9 PADM-GP 2445 Poverty, Inequality, and Policy
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10 PADM-GP 2875 Estimating Impacts in Policy Research
11 PADM-GP 2902 Multiple Regression and Introduction to Econometrics
12 PADM-GP 4101 Conflict Management and Negotiation
13 PADM-GP 4112 Building Effective Teams
14 PADM-GP 4340 Digital Innovation Lab
15 URPL-GP 2608 Urban Economics
Weighted Pre-Registration Lottery Timeline: Quick View
Friday, October 26 9:00 am Pre-registration Lottery Form is live at
http://wagner.nyu.edu/courses/
Thursday, November 1 5:00 pm Pre-registration Lottery Form closes
Thursday, November 8 5:00 pm Students notified of Lottery request results- whether they have
secured a seat in a course (and issued a permission code) or their
position on the waitlist (on which they will be manually placed by
Academic Services)
Monday, November 12 9:00 am Students begin to register themselves on Albert using permission
codes (if not on waitlist)
Wednesday, November 14 11:59 pm Deadline for students to use permission codes
Thursday, November 15 5:00 pm Students placed on Lottery course waitlists by Academic Services
Friday, November 16 10:00 am Lottery courses are open to all students for registration on Albert
Reminder: Students must clear any holds on their account (bursar’s hold, etc.) since the course registration
permission codes for the lottery will expire if not used before Wednesday, November 14. The lottery process
will not take into account any schedule conflicts. If you secure a seat in conflicting courses, you must choose
which course to take and which to forego.
If after reading through the instructions you have remaining questions, email
wagner.academicservices@nyu.edu.
*** IMPORTANT GENERAL NOTES ***
Check Albert for Updated Course Meeting Dates, Times and Course Changes
The course schedule is posted on Wagner website but it is important to always check Albert for the most
updated information on courses. Albert may be updated daily, while the course schedules on the Wagner
website are updated once per week.
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January Intersession courses included in Spring 2013 schedule
Courses offered in January 2013 are included and in the Spring 2013 schedule on the Wagner website (search
for “January”), and as part of Spring 2013 on ALBERT.
Skills Courses
Most skills courses are 2-credit courses (4000-level courses).
Outside/University-wide Electives
To view the University-wide list of courses that has been pre-approved by the Wagner faculty and may be taken
as electives, visit http://wagner.nyu.edu/courses/otherlistings.php. This is a helpful tool that allows you to
see non-Wagner courses listed by topic area, for example international development, social policy, education
policy, nonprofit management, and more. We have made every effort to update non-Wagner course numbers,
but you may need to consult with the department to verify new course numbers. For instructions on how to
register for non-Wagner courses, see: http://wagner.nyu.edu/students/registration/outsideWagner.php.
Pre-Term Workshops
Pre-Term Workshops are open to all current students. Registration is completed through Albert. For more
information on Pre-Term, consult the website: http://wagner.nyu.edu/current/services/preterm.php
Courses by Semester
To view an outline of when courses are typically offered, visit http://wagner.nyu.edu/courses/ and download
the “Courses by Semester” documents for each program.
Composing Your Career
Dates and times for these workshops can be found in Albert and on the spring course schedule,
http://wagner.nyu.edu/courses/. Students must submit pre-registration requests for the non-credit
“Composing Your Career” workshops.
Core Course Waiver Exams
Students who do not qualify for an automatic course waiver (see waiver policies at:
http://www.nyu.edu/wagner/current/registration/waivers.php) may write a waiver exam. The waiver schedule
for May is posted on our website, and students can register online (at the link above). Waivers must be
completed prior to the start of a student’s second semester.
SPSS Proficiency Exam
SPSS proficiency is a requirement for graduation. Students who waive Statistics (CORE-GP 1011) must
demonstrate proficiency in SPSS by passing the SPSS examination (NONCR-GP 938) prior to starting Capstone
or by completing PADM-GP 2902 Multiple Regression and Introduction to Econometrics. Register on Albert for
the optional preparatory module (NONCR-GP 931) for the SPSS exam and for the exam (NONCR-GP 938).
Students who take CORE-GP 1011 gain proficiency through their coursework.
Labs/Recitations for Quantitative Courses
Please note that the labs/recitations for the following courses are mandatory, but have been given separate
course numbers:
Statisitcs lecture: CORE-GP 1011; laboratory: CORE-GP 111
Microeconomics lecture: CORE-GP 1018; recitation: CORE-GP 118
Financial Management lecture: CORE-GP 1021; recitation: CORE-GP 121
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Multiple Regression lecture: PADM-GP 2902; recitation: PADM-GP 290
You must register the corresponding non-credit lab/recitation when you register for a lecture.
Please note that PADM-GP 2140 Public Economics and Finance has an optional recitation section (PADM-GP
140). It is not mandatory to register for this discussion when you register for the lecture, although it is highly
recommended.
*** SPRING 2013 COURSE INFORMATION ***
(In addition to the courses on the following pages, there are course announcements listed on the
International, MUP, and Health course highlight documents found here http://wagner.nyu.edu/courses/)
~ new courses offered in January intersession (listed on spring schedule) ~
PADM-GP 4132 Governance of Public/Private Finance: Policy, Law & Business (2 credits)
Instructor: Richard Brodsky
Day/Time: Tuesday/Thursday 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Dates: 1/08/2013 - 1/24/2013
Prerequisite: CORE-GP 1020
Recently, traditional methods of capital flow between the private and public sector have undergone
tremendous change. For many years the financial and social needs of both sectors were adequately addressed
by traditional debt instruments, largely bonds and notes. Starting some years ago, there began a proliferation
of new entities that now account for the bulk of public indebtedness. These have sprung up without serious
examination of the reasons for their creation, their governance, their policies and practices, and their
consequences. This course will examine all forms of these new structures, the law and reality of their
operation, international, national and state efforts to monitor and control them, and their impacts on financial
markets and government policies. The course will look at efforts by the IMF to rationalize and regulate
Public/Private groups and by New York State to rationalize and democratize their governance, the application
of fiduciary obligation to their operations, unintended legal and financial problems, and the unresolved
financial, ethical, legal, policy and political questions that remain. Cases to be studied include the financing of
the new Yankee Stadium, the TARP Fund, PATH, and the Norwegian Sovereign Wealth Fund. The course will
include required readings, notable guest speakers from both public and private sectors, team case studies,
and a final paper.
PADM-GP 4340 Digital Innovation Lab (2 credits)
Instructor: Yasmin Fodil (see bio below)
Day/Time: Wednesday/Friday 2:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Dates: 1/7/2013 – 1/25/2013
Prerequisites: None
Advances in the capabilities of digital technology to organize, create, and share information combined with
the pervasiveness of personal technology devices has transformed our society in innumerable ways.
Technology has also changed the way that institutions interact with and serve their constituents as evidenced
through a number of interesting innovations in the field. The course will delve into several of these programs,
such as: Code for America, which brings develops, designers and entrepreneurs into city government to help
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the offices become more open and efficient; TurboVote, a tool that is trying to make voting as easy as possible
by using the web to streamline the absentee voter registration process; the Transportation Security
Administration (TSA) Blog which enables a dialogue with the public about their methods and guidelines,
potentially improving the relationship between travelers and the agency; among others. This is a practical
course that will help you gain the practical skills necessary to develop and refine a socially conscious digital
innovation concept and bring it to fruition.
Instructor Bio:
Yasmin Fodil is the co-founder and director of BYO consulting, where she specializes in creative public policy
making and how technology can be used to make government and organizations more collaborative,
participatory, transparent, and accountable. She has worked at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center on an
internal communications plan for their engineering directorate and as an Information Officer for the Office of
the Arts and Special Projects at the NYC Department of Education.She regularly blogs at
wethegoverati.wordpress.com. Fodil has a Masters of Public Policy from the Harvard Kennedy School of
Government and a Bachelors in Government from Cornell.
PADM-GP 4413 Topics in Philanthropy (2 credits)
Instructor: Gara LaMarche
Day/Time: Tuesday/Thursday 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Dates: 1/8/2013 – 1/17/2013
Prerequisite: None
Professor LaMarche will not be teaching his regular full semester Philanthropy course this spring. Instead he
is offering the Topics in Philanthropy course during January. This course aims to introduce students to the
critical role played by U.S. foundations on public policy issues and in American society generally.
The manner in which the U.S. tax laws encourage charitable giving has had a significant impact on civil society
and social welfare. Philanthropy has not only been critical to the establishment of leading educational and
cultural institutions and medical research and discovery, but also to numerous public policy advances such as
public television, urban renewal, school vouchers and the modern human rights and women’s rights
movements.
The course will touch on some of that history by way of a short introduction to institutionalized philanthropy,
with particular emphasis on the foundations emerging in the first half of the 20th century from great American
fortunes like Carnegie, Rockefeller, and Ford. But the principal focus will be the public policy activities of
contemporary foundations. Proceeding from the legal and historical environment, the second class will
examine number of key public policy approaches and strategies, including research, organizing and
communications. The third class will be devoted to a more intensive case study of a particular philanthropysupported
policy, and the final session will cover emerging and contested issues in policy-focused
philanthropy.
~ new courses offered in spring semester ~
PADM-GP 2117 Information Management and Systems in Public and Nonprofit Service Organizations (4
credits)
Instructor: Derek Coursen (new instructor; see bio below)
Day/Time: Thursday 8:35 pm - 10:15 pm
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Dates: 1/28/2013 - 5/13/2013
Prerequisite: CORE-GP 1020
The goal of this course is to prepare non-technical stakeholders working in the human service, justice and
public health arenas to participate effectively in decision-making about information management practices
and tools. Using a framework of general systems concepts to explore organizational and technical issues, the
course will address how various roles—clients, front-line workers and supervisors, performance measurement
staff, evaluators and funders—conceive of useful information; the challenges of developing information
management capacity and acquiring information systems; and the context and implications of creating
comparable measures and/or integrating data across multiple programs and agencies. The course is designed
to enable students to understand differences between various stakeholder groups’ desire for and use of
information; analyze the costs required to collect data and produce information; become familiar with the
structure, development and customization of software; and the factors that contribute to success or failure.
Students will also learn to understand the particular complex problems that client-serving agencies face
around competing internal priorities, software acquisition, reporting to external funders, integration of data
across multiple programs, and managing change; and learn how emerging trends in shared measurement and
data integration may affect agencies.
Derek Coursen has 25 years of experience managing information in nonprofit organizations. He spent six
years working on educational and journalistic projects in non-governmental organizations in Central America
and four years planning immigrant services and managing performance data at Queens Borough Public
Library. In 1998 he joined the Vera Institute of Justice, where he formed and led a department that carried out
software development and performance measurement consulting work in areas including juvenile justice,
child welfare, substance abuse treatment, offender re-entry, healthcare advocacy, crime mapping, court
automation, and the interaction of race and prosecution. Derek joined Public Health Solutions in 2007, and
currently directs planning and informatics around the administration of New York City’s portfolio of HIV care
and prevention contracts, with particular emphasis on the development of systems for performance-based
reimbursement. He holds M.S. degrees in management (NYU Wagner), information systems (Pace University)
and information and library science (Pratt Institute).
PADM-GP 2173 Operations Management for Public, Nonprofit and Health Contexts (4 credits)
Instructor: Natalie Privett
Day/Time: Tuesday 4:55 pm - 6:35 pm
Dates: 1/28/2013 - 5/13/2013
Prerequisites: CORE-GP 1020, CORE-GP 1011, and NONCR-932 Excel I (or equivalent)
Operations management specifically involves the analysis, design, operation, and improvement of the
systems and processes that deliver goods or services and ultimately outputs and outcomes. It is required to
achieve the organization’s mission, provide value to the organization’s many stakeholders, and effectively
translate policy into action. As such, operations management plays an important part of being an effective
manager and policy implementer. In this course, we will develop a lens to perceive processes and systems in
a variety of contexts along with an analytical toolbox to examine and understand these. Students will learn
how to build basic operations models in Excel to make effective, evidence-based managerial, design, and
policy decisions as well as gain defined analytical skills that lend themselves to roles in operations,
management, hospital management, policy implementation, human services, consulting, and much more.
PADM-GP 2310 Understanding Social Entrepreneurship (4 credits)
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Instructor: Andrew Greenblatt
Day/Time: Friday 9:00 am - 10:40 am
Dates: 1/28/2013 - 5/13/2013
Prerequisite: None
The course description for this course will be updated shortly.
PADM-GP 2425 Government 3.0: Rethinking Governance for the 21st Century (4 credits)
Instructor: Beth Noveck
Day/Time: Wednesday 4:55 pm - 6:35 pm
Dates: 1/28/2013 - 5/13/2013
Prerequisite: CORE-GP 1020
We live in an era of unprecedented technological innovation with ingenious new advances for achieving clean
energy, eradicating disease and providing greater wellness, more equitably and effectively delivering
education, and improving the quality of human existence and expression. At the same time, we are
experiencing clear deficits within centralized institutions of government and civil society: deficits of agility,
innovation and capacity. These traditional institutions are failing to tap into the diversity of expertise and
experience of individuals and communities, rendering us less able to quickly discover, recognize, implement
and scale innovative approaches to pressing problems and making it impossible to translate technological
innovation into social progress. New technology makes collaborative problem solving possible. In this course,
we explore how we might use technology -- from big data to social media -- to redesign our systems of
governance to devolve power from centralized, hierarchical institutions and evolve more robust collaboration
among individuals, groups and institutions including government and the media. Through customized reading
lists, blogging assignments, and a final design project participants will apply what we learn about innovation
to the issues about which they are the most passionate.
PADM-GP 2444 LGBT Issues in Public Policy
Instructor: Sean Cahill
Day/Time: Monday 4:55 pm - 6:35 pm
Dates: 1/28/2013 - 5/13/2013
Prerequisite: CORE-GP 1022
The movement for equality for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people is one of the most
successful in recent history. In the U.S., even though LGBT people and same-sex couple families experience
inequality and exclusion in a wide range of state and federal policy arenas, significant policy advances have
occurred. These include the repeal of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, the adoption of transgender nondiscrimination
laws in 16 states, the extension of marriage equality in eight states, and support for same-sex marriage by
President Obama and the Democratic Party. This course will examine the incredible successes of LGBT rights
activism in the U.S. and globally, and the treatment of LGBT people in several policy areas, with an in-depth
focus on several issue areas that afford a broad overview of domestic and global LGBT policy, including:
implementation of the Affordable Care Act; elder issues; youth and education policy; family recognition and
the policy implications of race and gender differences among same-sex couple households; and international
LGBT rights struggles. We will also examine debates within the U.S. LGBT movement between
progressives/liberals and conservatives, and look at voting behavior and public opinion trends.
PADM-GP 4143 Research Tools and Methods for Public Service (2 credits)
Instructors: Shankar Prasad and Judy Polyne
Day/Time: Wednesday 4:55 pm - 6:35 pm
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Dates: 3/25/2013 - 5/13/2013
Prerequisite: CORE-GP 1011
Quantitative and qualitative methods are essential for effective policymaking. In addition to helping us
identify social problems, we can use research to help determine causes of these problems, suggest potential
solutions and evaluate effectiveness of existing programs. Most policy-relevant research questions can be
addressed in many different ways, each with its own strengths and weaknesses. In this course, students will
learn the formal principles of research design as they apply to both qualitative and quantitative methods.
Students will also learn about the comparative advantages and disadvantages of different data collection
methods. The primary goal of this course is to learn how to identify and evaluate alternative research designs
and data collection strategies. These conceptual tools will help students become more sophisticated
consumers and producers of research. A secondary goal is to provide a hands-on introduction to observing
phenomena, conducting interviews, running focus groups and writing effective surveys.
PADM-GP 4619 Arts, the Artist, and Public Art in Urban Revitalization (2 credits)
Instructor: Tim Tompkins and Sherry Dobbin (see bio below)
Day/Time: Tuesday 6:45 pm - 8:25 pm
Dates: 1/28/2013 - 3/15/2013
Prerequisite: CORE-GP 1022
This seven-week course addresses the role of arts institutions, artists and public art in revitalizing cities, with
an emphasis on comparative domestic and international examples of distinctive interventions and the larger
lessons that can be drawn from them. We examine how the economic, geographic and social context shapes
both art and its role with respect to public policy goals. Students will refine their ability to analyze existing
projects and programs and plan creative interventions as tools for revitalizing cities. In the process, we will
also examine and broaden the definition of public art. The class is appropriate for those interested in both
public policy, planning and administration as well as arts-based practice and theory.
Instructor Bio:
Sherry Dobbin, Director of Public Art for Times Square Arts, the public art program of the Times Square
Alliance. She brings over 20 years international experience across performance and visual arts, and art in the
public realm, where she has worked as producer, administrator, consultant and curator. Prior to Times Square,
she was the Director of Robert Wilson's The Watermill Center and a Project Director of arts-led regeneration
throughout London and Eastern UK. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (UK), and holds a Masters with
Distinction from University of London, Birkbeck College in Cross-disciplinary Arts History and a BFA in Theater
Studies from Boston University College of Fine Arts.
URPL-GP 4237 Urbanization in Developing Countries (2 credits)
Instructors: Solly Angel
Day/Time: Thursday 8:35 pm - 10:15 pm
Dates: 1/28/2013 - 3/15/2013
Prerequisite: PADM-GP 2201
The course focuses on understanding and coming to terms with the current prospects of global urban
expansion. The first part of the course will focus on four propositions underlying a new paradigm for
managing the rapid urbanization that can now be observed in developing countries: the inevitable expansion
proposition, the sustainable densities proposition, the decent housing proposition, and the public works
proposition. The second part of the course will focus on urbanization in a new historical perspective, on the
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geography of world urbanization, and on the global hierarchy of cities. The third part of the course will explore
the theory and the empirical evidence concerning global urban expansion by focusing on seven topics: global
urban land cover and its expansion; the persistent decline in urban densities; from centrality to dispersal; the
fragmentation of urban landscapes; the pulsating compactness of urban footprints; urban and cover
projections 2000-2050; and urban expansion and the loss of cultivated land.
~ application-only courses in spring 2013
(these courses are not in the weighted pre-registration lottery) ~
PADM-GP 2129 Race, Identity and Diversity in Organizations (4 credits)
Instructor: Erica Foldy
Day/Time: Wednesday 6:45 pm - 8:25 pm
Dates: 1/28/2013 - 5/13/2013
Prerequisites: CORE-GP 1020
Note: This is an application-only course separate from Wagner’s Weighted Pre-Registration Lottery. In order to
request registration, please fill out the form here. Applications should be no more than about a page.
Applications will be accepted from now until Monday, October 29th. Students will be notified about
registration results on November 8th. If you have questions, please contact Ann Lin at ann.lin@nyu.edu.
This course brings together a wide range of thinking and scholarship about race and identity to encourage
learning about what race is, why it matters, and racial dynamics in organizations. While recognizing the
importance of intersectionality and other markers of difference such as gender and class, the course focuses
on race for two reasons: 1) it is generally the most charged dimension of diversity in the United States, the
most difficult to discuss and, therefore, the topic we most often avoid, and 2) it has the greatest impact on life
chances and opportunities: race is often the best predictor of income, wealth, education, health, employment
and other important measures of well-being. The course will roughly divide into two parts. The first part will
address the phenomenon of race more broadly, while the second half will look more closely at organizations,
especially public service contexts such as social services, health care and philanthropy.
URPL-GP 2616 Colloquium on the Law, Politics, and Economics of Urban Affairs (4 credits)
Instructor: Ingrid Gould Ellen
Day/Time: We 2:00 pm - 3:50 pm
Dates: 01/23/2013 - 05/01/2013
Prerequisites: CORE-GP 1011 and either PADM-GP 2140 or URPL-GP 2608
Note: This is an application-only course separate from Wagner’s Weighted Pre-Registration Lottery. In order to
request registration, please fill out the form here. Applications should be no more than about one page.
Submissions will be accepted from now until Monday, October 29th. Students will be notified about
registration results on November 8th. If you have questions, please contact Joanne Williams at
joanne.williams@nyu.edu.
This course, taught jointly by faculty at NYU Law and Wagner, offers students an opportunity to explore the
theoretical underpinnings of the leading current debates about such critical urban policy issues as whether
and how to contain suburban sprawl; the impacts of various efforts to increase the production of affordable
housing; and the successes and failures of efforts to improve and equalize the quality of education. The
primary focus of the colloquium are discussions of works in progress by scholars from around the country,
working in such disciplines as planning, law, public policy, and economics. In colloquium weeks, students
participate in an in-depth discussion of the paper with the author. Students submit a short paper critiquing
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the work in progress. In alternate weeks, students meet with faculty to discuss supplemental readings and
learn the background necessary to understand each paper.
PADM-GP 2411 – Policy Formation: Global
Instructor: John Gershman
Day/Time: Tuesday 6:45 pm – 8:25 pm
Prerequisite: CORE-GP 1022
~ course with international content added ~
This course is offered every fall and spring, but this spring section will also include international content.
~ courses with a new instructor for spring 2013 ~
PADM-GP 2125 Foundations of Nonprofit Management (4 credits)
Instructor: Paula Gavin (see bio below)
Day/Time: Thursday 6:45 pm- 8:25 pm
Dates: 1/28/2013 - 5/13/2013
Prerequisite: CORE-GP 1020
Instructor Bio:
Paula L. Gavin is the newly appointed Executive Director of New York City’s Fund for Public Advocacy, which
fosters innovative ideas to tackle challenges facing New York City and the nation, including providing
education opportunities for immigrants, supporting small businesses and restraining corporate political
spending. From 2007 - 2012 she served as President of National Urban Fellows, responsible for the overall
vision, leadership and management of the organization. From 2004-2007, Gavin served as the founding
Executive Director of the New York City Center for Charter School Excellence.. Paula was responsible for not
only expanding the organization, but also managing academic and operational excellence initiatives, the
development of good governance practices, and effective advocacy and positive positioning for the charter
schools. Gavin also served for fourteen years as President and CEO of the YMCA of Greater New York.
~ course moved from summer to spring 2013 ~
PADM-GP 4250 Hunger and Food Security in a Global Perspective (2 credits)
Instructor: John Gershman
Day/Time: Monday 4:55 pm - 6:35 pm
Dates: 3/25/2013 - 5/13/2013
Prerequisite: CORE-GP 1018, CORE-GP 1011, and CORE-GP 1022
Note: This 2-credit course meets in New York only (see PADM-GP 2250 for Ghana-based version, which meets
in summer).
This course explores the political and economic policy issues surrounding hunger and food security, drawing
on many case examples and using Ghana as a case study. The course will provide an overview of some of the
core dimensions of global hunger and food security policy issues, including debates over a new green
revolution, food aid, fair trade, the impact of expanded biofuels production and the impact of the inter-related
financial, food, and fuel crises.
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~ courses not offered in spring 2013 ~
PADM-GP 1901 – Reflective Practice: Learning from Work
Instructor: Ellen Schall
Not offered again until 2014
PADM-GP 2178 – Power and Influence in Organizations and Politics
Instructor: Joe Magee
Not offered again until 2014
PADM-GP 2236 – Protecting Rights and Promoting Development: Labor and Environmental Standards in
the Global Economy
Instructor: Salo Coslovsky
Not offered again until 2014
URPL-GP 2666 – Water Sourcing and Climate Change
Instructor: Natasha Iskander
Not offered again until 2014
~ course no longer offered in summer (2013 and thereafter) ~
PADM-GP 2140– Public Economics and Finance
Will be offered in Spring 2013 and Fall 2013
For course descriptions (see “course listings”), course syllabi, course schedules, courses-bysemester,
and program checksheets, go to: http://wagner.nyu.edu/courses/
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