OSUN Certificate in Public Policy Core Courses
Economic Perspectives for Policy Making
Network Collaborative Course (Bard College, BCB, AUCA, Uni Los Andes)
This course traces how contemporary discussions about economic and social policy are influenced and framed by the ideas and concerns of classical political economy and early twentieth-century economic thought. The course will survey the diverse traditions in economics, including Marxian, Neoclassical, Old American Institutionalist, Post Keynesian, Modern Monetary Theory, Black Political Economy, Radical Political Economy, Feminist, and Ecological and Green economics.
The aim of this course is for students to gain a broad appreciation and understanding of the methods and specific problems that these traditions emphasize and the contributions to theory and policy that they have made. Thus, we will examine not only the evolution of these ideas and theories but also their practical application today.
The Right to Employment
Network Collaborative Course (Bard College, AQB, AUCA)
The shared pedagogical aims of this course across all partner institutions are to present an interdisciplinary course tracing the history of the struggle to secure the right to employment for all. A motivating question throughout the course is whether tackling unemployment head-on advances the goals of equity, social inclusion, and economic justice. Students focus on the economic, legal, and policy developments in the country of their OSUN institution, as well as consider international policy initiatives and innovative public employment programs.
Public Policy and Economic Analysis
Online course, Summer 2024
Recent crises have taught us that governments must act decisively to tackle these challenges, not leave solutions exclusively to private actors. This led to a rethinking of the role of the state on a global scale. What are the policy options before governments? What are their abilities to achieve them? What constraints do they face? This course provides a new framework for thinking about these questions and with concrete tools and techniques to explore these policy-relevant concerns.
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