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Wintersession 2024 Courses (January
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2 – January
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12) Maxwell-in-Washington
PAI 700 | Geopolitics of Energy and Climate Change | William Hederman
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The public sector is frequently both the consumer and regulator of technology advances. For aspiring public managers, this course will examine the active and passive government influences, which can and have been exerted over technology and innovation management. For aspiring business managers and technical professionals in engineering or information systems, this course will provide a perspective of the applications of public policy and public management practices and will offer constructive avenues on how government actions on behalf of the public may be anticipated.
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2024 Courses (January
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April 29) Maxwell-in-Washington
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DC COURSES: Following are the courses offered in Washington, DC for spring 20232024. All classes meet one evening a week from 6:00pm-8:40pm
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PAI 895 | Managerial Leadership | LeAnne Howard and Josh Burgess
This is the Leadership and Strategy in Global Affairs course and a core requirement for the EMIR degree. Objectives are to establish an understanding of the schools of leadership thinking, especially current trends, to practice requisite skills, and to plan for additional learning and development through assessment and action planning.
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- Understand complex and fast-changing international security and foreign policy issues;
- Analyze complex data sets to discern key patterns and trends;
- Formulate insightful analysis of an issue area and design appropriate policy recommendations or compare likely repercussions of different policies;
- Craft compelling policy narratives combining cogent analysis and creative data visualization;
- Communicate findings effectively both orally and across a range of multimedia platforms;
- Collaborate effectively on diverse teams to produce a high-impact product.
PAI 700 | Disinformation and Influence in the Digital Age | Todd Helmus Disinformation has always been a tactic of political and social influence, but the advent of social media and targeted advertising has increased its potency and efficacy. How are nation states and domestic actors using online disinformation to shore up power and profit, and how can policymakers address this threat to democracy while keeping its values intact? This course will examine the elements of foreign policy, tech policy and regulation, changes in the media environment, and government responses that affect digital disinformation and its success, and equip students to critically observe and analyze this fast-changing sphere. Students will engage in seminar style discussions, meet with policymakers handling these key issues, and have some hands-on time to better understand the dynamics driving disinformation. Natural Security | TBA
This course focuses on the role of natural resources/environment/climate change in conflict and security, including its foundational role in economic and military security, from driving conflict and migration to being used as a tool in resolving conflict and peacebuilding.
PAI 700 | Foresight, Insight, and the Fiction of National Security | Tammy Schultz
While old paradigms seem to be failing us in war and peace, the creative management of national security challenges are more important than ever. We require new approaches – not reading the same, old texts, or using the same, old methodologies and theories. It is primarily for this reason – the need for imaginative, strategic leaders – that this class uses fiction as the launching point for discussion. As the 9/11 Commission noted in their report, “The most important failure was one of imagination.” Students in this course will use fiction as a springboard will hone several key student skills including creativity, the ability to better empathize with complex situations and potential opponents, understanding unfamiliar or strange cultures in order to consider unseen challenges and potential solutions and, grappling with ambiguity, contradictions, complexity, and ambivalence – entertaining for fiction but critical when considering the real world. Perhaps most importantly, students will hone their ability to ask the right questions – a prerequisite to finding least bad options, which is increasingly their job as they move into higher leadership positions. Finally, students will emerge from this course changed readers – better able to deconstruct (and reconstruct) text, think critically about what is read, and know when, and when not to, apply these frameworks.
Maymester 2023 Courses (May 18 - May 26) Maxwell in Washington
PSC 786 | Russian and Post-Soviet Politics |Brian Taylor
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