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PA 8320  PUBLIC POLICY EVALUATION (3 credits)

This course is designed to have the students understand the role of evaluation in the policy process, to demonstrate how to conduct and implement evaluations of public programs, to illustrate the procedures for presenting an evaluation report to public officials and citizens, to introduce operational issues and problems associated with management of an office of policy evaluation, and to insure the exploration of conflicts and limitations inherent to public policy evaluation.

Prerequisite(s): PA 8010, PA 8050, PA 8090 and PA 8120 and completion of at least 24 hours in the MPA program, not open to non-degree graduate students