The Department of Urban Affairs and Public Policy (UAPP) offers a series of 1 credit courses that help build professional skills and are available to museum studies students. Three of the courses can be taken for credit towards the MSST certificate or can be taken in addition to the required courses for the certificate.

UAPP 601: Measuring and Defining Planning Problems

• Methods for identifying and measuring planning-related problems, including analyses of land use patterns, population dynamics, economic trends, social indicators, and ecological characteristics as predictors and determinants of future development.

UAPP 602: Introduction to Comprehensive Planning

• Overview of comprehensive planning process. Description of goals, objectives and components behind development of comprehensive plan and methods for preparing and understanding value of comprehensive plan to community.

UAPP 603: Introduction to Zoning and Land Control Use

• Survey of theories underlying land use patterns and description of legal structure and methods surrounding public sector control and management of land use including police power, eminent domain, zoning, subdivision control, and master plans.

UAPP 607: Seminar in Community Development and Nonprofit Leadership

• Examines complex ways in which concepts of community analysis and development are used and understood. Cross-listed with IFST607.

UAPP 609: Financial Statement Analysis for Nonprofits

• Geared toward graduate students with little or no background in accounting or reading financial statements. Gives basic understanding of financial statement analysis. Covers basic accounting concepts with emphasis on understanding financial statements of nonprofit organizations.

UAPP 616: Volunteer Management

• Introduction and overview of field of volunteer administration. Explores components of effective management of volunteers and builds students' problem solving skills. Comparisons to management of paid staff and role of volunteerism in larger organizational structure.

UAPP 621: Conflict Resolution

• Introduction to conflict resolution skills. Provides communication and problem solving skills designed to de-escalate conflicts and create win-win solutions. Students learn new ways of approaching conflict while gaining understanding of their own conflict management style. Examines how these skills transfer to workplace. RESTRICTIONS: Requires permission of instructor.

UAPP 631: Documentation of Historic Structures

• Focuses on learning to create scaled, annotated field notes of historic resources in preparation for making measured drawings of buildings. Students spend all of their time in field, working as part of team to record variety of buildings through plans, sections, elevations and details.
  Cross-listed with HIST638.

UAPP 642: Strategic Planning for Public and Nonprofit Organizations

• Provides introduction to process of strategic planning and attempts to build skills and knowledge required for carrying out strategic planning in private nonprofit and public agencies. Focuses on organizational environments in which planning takes place, examines theories which underlie planning in general and strategic planning in particular and presents usable model for strategic planning.

UAPP 644: Grantsmanship and Proposal Writing

• Helps public and nonprofit managers hone their abilities to successfully secure grant funding. Sessions cover currently available resources for identifying promising targets for one's grant proposal, do's and don'ts in dealings with foundations, what grant makers really look for in a winning grant proposal, and strategies for transforming idea into feasible proposal capable of effectively attracting grant support.

UAPP 651: Managing Risk and Security

• Examines policy agenda regarding risk reduction during time of increasing threats to safety and security. Readings and presentations by practitioners introduce public entity and intergovernmental risk assessment and response strategies. Topics include information system development, exposure reduction, loss prevention, incident management, and resource coordination.

UAPP 652: Geographic Information Systems in Public Policy

• Hands-on introduction to Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and their uses in public policy areas. Content varies. Exercises focus on using geographic data in fields such as environmental analysis, land use planning, and socio-economic analysis.

UAPP 661: Comparative Public Administration and Policy

• Examines contemporary experience in public administration and policy in other cultures and systems.
  

UAPP 670: Fund Development: Fundraising from Individuals

• Introduction to principles of fund development, guide to organizing for fund development, and overview of fundamentals of annual, major and planned fundraising from individuals.

UAPP 671: Fund Development: Fundraising from Institutions

• Second in series of three, one-credit courses which focuses on corporate, foundation and government fund development activity in support of nonprofit organizations. Includes presentations by practitioners from corporate, foundation and government sectors, helping students understand issues from perspective of funding sources and from professional fundraisers on identifying potential donors through research.

UAPP 676: Survey Research

• Introduces major concepts of survey research to include questionnaire development, sampling, survey management, quality control, and analytical concerns. Follows all aspects of pre-election polling undertaken by The Center for Applied Demography and Survey Research during semester.

UAPP 677: Planning Information Technology-Enhanced Projects

• Introduces issues surrounding planning for projects requiring acquisition and application of technology in public and nonprofit sectors. Focuses on three themesthat impact adoption, implementation, and evaluation of information technology (IT) efforts: technology, policy, and administration.

UAPP 680: Myers-Briggs and Personal Development

• Emphasis on intensive understanding of elements of Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) indexes as they apply to individuals. Includes application to and opportunity for individual development, conflict, communication, change and leadership. Although not as rigorous as full qualifying program, it offers a thorough understanding and direct application to many other areas that impact individuals personally.

UAPP 682: Myers-Briggs and Effective Organizations

• Explores "Type" of organizations, how to build effective teams and how to work with people who are not just like we are. PREREQ: A basic understanding of Myers-Briggs personality preferences and how they apply to oneself.