Spring 2013 Course Highlights Template.docx - NYU Wagner

*** SPRING 2013 COURSE INFORMATION ***
(In addition to the courses on the following pages, there are course announcements listed on the Health,
International, PNP 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 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
As of 10/24/12