Pardee RAND Course Catalog

Pardee RAND students follow a rigorous, interdisciplinary program curriculum. The required courses are designed to provide our Ph.D. and M.Phil. students with a broad and solid base from which they may then tailor their academic experience.

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American Wealth Disparity

Analyzing Text with Computers

Applied Statistics for Policy Analysis

Big Plans: Urban and Regional Land Use Transformations

Comparative Historical Analysis and Case Study Methods

Connecting Coursework to the Research Process: The Applied Microeconomics Seminar

Cost Benefit and Cost Effectiveness Analysis

Cultural Measurement and Analysis in Policy Research

Data Science and Artificial Intelligence: Introduction to Modern AI

Data Visualization

Designing Empirical Research

Dissemination and Implementation Research

Dissertation Writing Workshop

Economic Development

Emerging Technology Regulation

Empirical Public Finance

Energy Markets

Engaging Communities in Research

Ethics in Policy and Practice

Ethics in Policy and Practice: Advanced Tutorial

Game Theory

Green Swans: Extreme Weather Impact on Financial Stability, Risk Management and Policies

Health Economics

Games for Policy Analysis

History and Public Policy

Implementing Good Ideas: How to Mitigate Some of the Pressures that Prevent Solutions from Being Implemented

Introduction to Data Science

Introduction to Panel Data and Other Advanced Topics

Issues of Modern Labor Economics

Math for Policy Analysis

Methods of Systems Thinking

Modeling Complex Problems for Policy Analysis

Network Analysis

Operations Research: Optimization

Operations Research: Simulation I

Operations Research: Simulation II

Perspectives of Policy Analysis

Policy Design Studio

Policy Making in Complex Environments

Policy Making in the State, Regional and Local Environments

Political Geography for Public and International Policy

Poverty in the United States: Measurement and Alleviation

Principles of Client Oriented Policy Analysis

Qualitative and Mixed Methods I: Scoping and Data Collection

Qualitative and Mixed Methods II: Practicum

R Programming for Scientific Analysis

Robust Decision Making

Scientific Writing and the Journal Publications Process

Social Network Analysis

Sources of Policy Decision Failure

Statistics for Policy Analysis I

Statistics for Policy Analysis II

Survey Design

Systematic Reviews

Tech + Narrative Lab Residency

Technology and Society

The Intersectionality of Policy: Race, Ethnicity, Gender, Class and Immigration Status

Understanding Economic Systems I

Understanding Economic Systems II

Understanding Human Systems

Understanding Macroeconomic Policy