Course Listing

34:816:502 Theory and Practice of Public Informatics (3) Engages in critical discussion of the data, methods, context and application of public informatics. It explores logical , ethical, legal, and political dimensions while considering how to anticipate and avoid unintended consequences of deploying public informatics tools. Credit not given for this and 34:970:502.

34:816:503 Data Visualization (3) This course will cover important data visualization techniques which will be useful for a broad range of applications across public, government, social and business domains. Students will learn to work with a broad variety of datasets to create advanced visualizations and professional report-ready data visualizations.

34:833:535 Data Visualization for Health, Administration, and Policy (3) This course will cover both concepts for identifying and planning an appropriate visualization for specific tasks and the Excel and other software skills to create effective, professional visualizations.

34:833:540 State and Local Public Finance (3) Theory and practice of state-local public finance; link between regional economy and subnational governments; fiscal federalism; major state-local spending programs; revenues, including property, sales, and income taxes and gambling; intergovernmental grants.

34:970:528 (3) Housing Economy and Markets Overview of demographic and political economic shifts and changing housing need/demand parameters, evolution of housing supply/demand patterns, and cost trends and market interrelationships. Historic trend lines and future directions evaluated. Current issues and policies examined.

34:970:572 Green Building (3) This graduate seminar focuses on the green building phenomenon. It provides a multidisciplinary, rigorous, and practical introduction to green building.

34:970:593 Design Representation and Visualization (3) Digital rendering, visualization, and 3D modeling techniques are used to explore urban environments. Students code building types in Rhino/Grasshopper to automate design tasks and complete photorealistic urban settings from VRay.

34:970:593 Advanced Planning Graphics and Visualization (3)

34:970:618 Environmental Planning and Management (3) Overview of the institutional, economic, normative, and technical factors underlying environmental planning and policy. Topics include environmental decision-making, stakeholders, methods, and crosscutting challenges. Case studies and in-class exercises put topics into local and global context.

34:970:620 Energy Sustainability and Policy (3) Examines energy policy and planning through a timely, critical, and practical approach designed to give students an insight into the factors that shape energy policy. Credit not given for both this course and 34:833:680.

34:970:630 Discrete Choice Methods (3) Course begins with a review of linear regression, but focuses mainly on the statistical methods for analysis of categorical dependent variables. The course covers panel regression, instrumental variables regression, binary logistic and probit regression, ordinal logit and probit regression, and multinomial and conditional logit models.