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Special Topics: Engineering and Public Policy |
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Engineering has become a major driver of social, political and economic change. Engineers will play a vital role in addressing some of society's most pressing problems, including global warming and economic competitiveness. This course will describe how engineers currently influence the American policymaking process (engineering for policy) and how policy impacts the engineering profession (policy for engineering). Through a series of real-world policy cases, students will learn how engineers can shape policy and how policy shapes the engineering profession. Part of the public policy minor and science, technology, and policy minor. May also be taken as a general education elective. (0521-449) Class 4, Credit 4 (offered annually).
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Special Topics: People, Policy, Planning |
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This course is designed to examine cities, their formation, operations and challenges. The City of Rochester will serve as a laboratory for perspectives and insights into the politics and planning, and the sociology and anthropology, of urban development. Students will directly observe and assess the workings of the city in its most important dimensions: its physical development throughout its history, the social interactions of its people, and the political and economic decisions that impact its growth and decline. Most specifically, this course will examine the industrial, residential and civic transformation of cities in general, and Rochester in particular, as well as the factors that can lead to revitalization.
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| 0521-749-01 |
Special Topics: People, Policy, Planning |
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This course is designed to examine cities, their formation, operations and challenges. The City of Rochester will serve as a laboratory for perspectives and insights into the politics and planning, and the sociology and anthropology, of urban development. Students will directly observe and assess the workings of the city in its most important dimensions: its physical development throughout its history, the social interactions of its people, and the political and economic decisions that impact its growth and decline. Most specifically, this course will examine the industrial, residential and civic transformation of cities in general, and Rochester in particular, as well as the factors that can lead to revitalization.
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