PAD-862 Leading Change: State Policy
This course examines the procedures, accountability, and performance of state government and explores the process and politics of how state public policy is developed. The course introduces students, as managers and future public leaders, to a working knowledge of the state executive branch and to its response to the inner workings of the Massachusetts Great and General Court in the development and execution of public policy. The course covers budget planning and analysis, policy promise and performance, and accountability of the state bureaucracy to the Governor, to the state legislature and ultimately to Massachusetts citizens. It consists of in person classroom instruction complemented by meetings with state leaders who shape the state public policy agenda. Students access and interact with key state government leaders in briefing sessions that provide an enhanced learning and experiential complement to class instruction.
Prerequisite
Student has satisfied all of the following Academic Unit (Computed) in the selection list Accounting, Accounting and Business Law, Business Administration, Business Administration Executive, Business Analytics, Business Law and Ethics, Entrepreneurship, Finance, Health Administration, Information System, Information Systems and Operations Management, INTO Sawyer Business School, Management and Entrepreneurship, Management Studies, Marketing, Moakley Center for Public Management, Public Administration, Public Administration and Health Administration, Sawyer Business School, Strategy and International Business Or Programs of Study any in the selection list Business Economics Major BSBA