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University of California, Berkeley

Solving Public Policy Problems: UC Berkeley’s Eightfold Path

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Overview

Interested in public policy thinking? This course will equip you to utilize a powerful, eight-step method for analyzing public policy problems and formulating recommendations for addressing them.

To help you learn the “eightfold path” to problem solving, you will review and enjoy lectures and presentations by faculty from UC Berkeley’s Goldman School of Public Policy, the top-ranked graduate academy in this field. You will examine specific policy examples and learn to apply this method to the social challenges you wish to concentrate upon in your own work.

And this course is just the beginning! Consider exploring graduate training in public policy. Earn a Masters in Public Affairs (MPA) degree from the Goldman School.

Taught by

Eugene Bardach, Henry E. Brady, Jennifer M. Granholm, Daniel M. Kammen, David L. Kirp, Steven Raphael, Robert B. Reich and Larry A. Rosenthal JD, MPP, PhD

Reviews

3.5 rating, based on 2 Class Central reviews

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  • Anonymous
    Good course as it enhances your awareness on multiple fronts of policy making...good experience
    Assisted in great deal how to move in situation to steer the right fruits of policy
  • Henry Alvarado

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