This curriculum draws on the vast international resources of SIPA to address a wide variety of local and national level policy issues in a comparative and international context. The curriculum has four components: the core curriculum includes a Capstone project; a concentration; elective coursework; and a summer internship. The Executive Master of Public Administration EMPA program is designed for the experienced and ambitious professional who is looking for a superior and practical graduate program but cannot take the time out to pursue full-time study.
The program trains professionals to be competent and sophisticated public managers by incorporating broad questions of public affairs and the specific analytical, managerial, and communication skills of management and policy analysis into its curriculum.
Our graduates are equipped to pursue careers in local, state, and federal government, nonprofit organizations, and private corporations and banks that deal with today's public policy issues. The MPA in Economic Policy Management MPA-EPM is a 12 month master's degree program that provides promising mid career policymakers with the skills to effectively design and implement economic policy in market economies, with a strong emphasis on the economic problems of developing countries.
Skip to content Close Search for: Search. January 6, December 8, Nicholas Chun. Share this: Twitter Facebook. Related Posts. Previous External Funding — Upcoming Deadlines. The thesis consists of an article around 30 pages long , which would be publishable in an appropriately refereed academic journal reflecting the disciplinary orientation of the project. Students should submit the Masters paper to their research advisor s with a copy to the DGS.
For titles of MA thesis projects previously completed by students in the program please see here. The PhD dissertation will be on a social science topic in sustainable development. The social science research will be informed by an understanding of physical and natural science constraints and opportunities influencing economic development. Students with a regional area of interest to their dissertation may wish to do research abroad, so as to conduct field studies, use archives, improve language skills, or confer with local experts.
In order that students may complete the PhD program without delay, it is preferred that they make use of summers to conduct such research.
Students who feel they require a longer period of field research or language training need the approval of their advisor, and of the DGS. Students may not receive extended residence credit for study or research away from Columbia before the completion of all course work requirements and comprehensive examinations. This course provides a rigorous survey of the key areas of natural science that are critical to understanding sustainable development.
The course will provide the theories, methodological techniques and applications associated with each natural science unit presented. The teaching is designed to ensure that students have the natural science basis to properly appreciate the co-dependencies of natural and human systems, which are central to understanding sustainable development.
Students will learn the complexities of the interaction between the natural and human environment. After completing the course, students should be able to incorporate scholarly scientific work into their research or policy decisions and be able to use scientific methods of data analysis. To achieve coherence across lectures this course will emphasize how each topic is critical to studies of sustainable development and place-based case studies in recitation will integrate various topics covered.
In the lectures and particularly the recitation sections this course will emphasize key scientific concepts such as uncertainty, experimental versus observational approaches, prediction and predictability, the use of models and other essential methodological aspects.
This course has two primary objectives: first, to provide a structured way to think about—and conduct research in—the field of sustainable development. Second, to introduce formal models of dynamic, coupled human and environmental systems. The goal of this course is to introduce you to the basic concepts of natural resource and environmental economics in about 14 weeks.
It should hence be seen as a survey class that introduces the basic ideas of the field. Prerequisites: Graduate level classes in micro-economics and econometrics as well as some knowledge of optimal control theory. When externalities go uncorrected, and public goods go undersupplied, the reason is not that "the market" fails; the reason is that governments are unable or unwilling to intervene effectively. The biggest problem is with transnational externalities and regional and global public goods.
This is partly because of the scale of these problems, but it is also because the institutional arrangements at this level make effective intervention difficult. There is no World Government. Instead, there are around sovereign states. That is what is going to keep you going no matter what. Before starting my applications, I had to believe in myself! You must be your biggest cheerleader. During this time at SIPA, I have learned that to succeed just requires showing up, in every possible way. Be present, enjoy the experience, and open your mind to every new idea.
Thanks to your peers, you have the chance to rethink everything you thought you knew. As many applicants deal with issues of self-doubt and confidence when applying to graduate school, how would you advise them to convey confidence in their own skills on their applications?
Every single student that applies feels scared or in doubt at some point, no matter who they are or what they have done.
It is a challenging process, so it is normal to feel anxious. Remember what moves you, and that you are capable of doing it.
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