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Academic Resources
Academic Resources
Course Syllabi
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Y500 Arts Advocacy
Y500 Arts Education Policy (Spring 2025)
Y500 Arts Writing and Advanced Marketing (Fall 2023)
Y500 Graphic Design
Y500 Rural & Grassroots Arts (Fall 2023)
Y502 Intro into Arts Admin and Organizational Behavior (Fall 2024)
Y504 Arts Organizations in the Public and Private Sectors (Spring 2024)
Y505 Programming the Performing Arts
Y506 Curating in Galleries and Museums (Fall 2023)
Y507 Seminar in Community and Place (Fall 2024)
Y508 Performing Arts Organization Management (Spring 2025)
Y511 Performing Arts Center Management (Fall 2024)
Y515 Financial Management for the Arts and Nonprofit Organizations (Fall 2023)
Y522 IT Applications for the Arts
Y525 Museum Management (Spring 2025)
Y526 Arts and Social Change (Spring 2024)
Y530 Audience Development and Marketing the Arts (Spring 2025)
Y535 Arts Administration and the Cultural Sector
Y550 Practicum for First Year Students (Fall 2023)
Y550 Practicum for Second & Third Year Students
Y551 Cultural Planning and Urban Development (Fall 2023)
Y558 Fund Development in the Arts (Spring 2025)
Y559 Public Policy and the Arts (Spring 2025)
Y562 Legal Issues In The Arts (Fall 2023)
E501 Human Behavior and Energy Consumption (Spring 2025)
E504 Sustainable River Management (Spring 2024)
E505 Renewable and Nuclear Energy and Climate Change (Spring 2025)
E511 Sustainability Assessment (Spring 2025)
E512 Risk Communication (Fall 2024)
E513 Environmental Project Management (Fall 2024)
E514 Changing Landscape of Toxic Chemical Regulations (Spring 2025)
E515 Fundamentals of Air Pollution (Fall 2023)
E516 Fisheries Management (Fall 2024)
E517 BMP Design for Healthy Urban Watersheds
E518 Vector-Based Geographic Information Systems (Spring 2025)
E520 Environmental Toxicology (Spring 2025)
E522 Urban Forest Management (Fall 2024)
E526 Applied Mathematics (Spring 2024)
E527 Applied Ecology (Spring 2025)
E528 Forest Ecology and Management (Fall 2024)
E529 Application of Geographic Information Systems (Spring 2025)
E530 Fundamentals of Sustainable Agriculture (Fall 2024)
E534 Restoration Ecology (Spring 2025)
E536 Environmental Chemistry (Fall 2024)
E537 Environmental Chemistry Lab (Spring 2025)
E538 Statistics for Environmental Science (Fall 2024)
E539 Aquatic Chemistry (Spring 2025)
E540 Wetlands Ecology and Management (Fall 2024)
E542 Hazardous Materials (Fall 2024)
E543 Environmental Management (Fall 2024)
E545 Lake and Watershed Management (Spring 2025)
E546 Stream Ecology
E550 Soil Science and Management (Spring 2025)
E552 Environmental Engineering (Fall 2024)
E554 Groundwater Flow Modeling (Fall 2024)
E555 Renewable and Nuclear Energy
E555 Conservation Planning (Spring 2024)
E555 Sustaining Urban Ecosystems (Spring 2025)
E555 Intro to Coding for Env and Policy (Spring 2025)
E555 Python Programming for Env and Policy (Spring 2025)
E555 Using R for Env and Policy (Spring 2025)
E555 Intro to Risk Assessment (Fall 2024)
E555 Sustainability Science (Fall 2024)
E556 Limnology (Fall 2024)
E557 Conservation Biology (Spring 2025)
E560 Risk Analysis
E561 Wildlife Techniques (Fall 2024)
E562 Solid and Hazardous Waste Management (Fall 2024)
E563 Fisheries and Wildlife Management (Spring 2025)
E564 Organic Pollutants: Environmental Chemistry and Fate (Spring 2024)
E574 Energy Systems and Analysis (Fall 2024)
E582 Cayman Islands: Coral Reef Restoration & Conservation (Spring 2024)
E591 Climate Change Impacts on Natural Resources (Fall 2024)
D548 US Foreign Policy and Third World Regimes (Spring 2025)
D573 Development Economics (Fall 2024)
D576 Approaches to Development (Spring 2025)
D577 International Economic Strategies and Trade Policy (Fall 2024)
D578 Intro to Comparative and International Affairs
D669 Economic Development, Globalization, and Entrepreneurship (Spring 2024)
F526 Financial Management for the Arts and Nonprofit Organizations (Fall 2023)
F527 International Development Finance (Spring 2025)
F542 Governmental Financial Accounting and Reporting (Spring 2025)
F560 Public Finance and Budgeting (Spring 2025)
F609 Seminar in Revenue Theory and Administration (Spring 2025)
F610 Seminar in Government Budget and Program Analysis (Fall 2024)
F622 Local Economic Development
F666 Public Revenue
F667 Seminar in Public Capital and Debt Theory (Fall 2024)
I515 Data Science for Public and Environmental Affairs (Spring 2024)
I516 Public Management Information Systems (Spring 2024)
I519 Database Management Systems (Spring 2024)
L563 Planning and Community Development (Spring 2025)
L564 Local Government Management (Fall 2024)
L568 Management of Local Government Services (Spring 2025)
L622 Local Economic Development (Fall 2024)
M547 Negotiation and Dispute Resolution for Public Affairs (Fall 2024)
M561 Public Human Resources Management (Fall 2024)
M575 Comparative Public Management and Administration
M602 Strategic Management of Public and Nonprofit Orgs
M652 Managing Workforce Diversity in Public Organizations
M654 Public Program Management and Contracting(Fall 2024)
M662 Seminar in Accountability and Performance (Spring 2024)
M672 Public Organization and Management II
N521 The Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector (Fall 2024)
N522 Human Resource Management in Nonprofit Organizations (Spring 2025)
N523 Civil Society and Public Policy (Spring 2025)
N525 Management in the Nonprofit Sector (Spring 2024)
N534 NGO Management for International Development (Fall 2024)
N557 Proposal Development and Grant Administration (Fall 2023)
N558 Fund Development for Nonprofit Organizations (Spring 2025)
P507 Data Analysis and Modeling for Public Affairs (Spring 2024)
P539 Public Policy Modeling and Decision Analysis
P541 Benefit-Cost Analysis (Spring 2025)
P562 Public Program Evaluation (Spring 2025)
R513 Wildlife Law (Spring 2025)
R516 Agricultural Policy for Climate and Environment (Spring 2025)
R519 Food Systems and Community Resilience
R521 Domestic Environmental Policy (Fall 2023)
R531 Water Law (Spring 2024)
R532 Water Policy and Economics (Fall 2024)
R533 Public Natural Resources Law (Fall 2024)
R535 International Environmental Policy (Fall 2024)
R563 Sustainability in a Trisectoral World (Spring 2024)
R564 Environmental and Natural Resources Policy Design and Implementation (Fall 2023)
R625 Environmental Economics and Policy (Fall 2024)
R626 Energy Justice & Policy Seminar
R643 Natural Resource Management and Policy (Fall 2023)
R645 Environmental Law (Spring 2025)
R674 Energy Economics and Policy (Spring 2025)
S515 Sustainable Communities (Fall 2024)
S516 Planning for Climate Change and Resilient, Urban Communities (Spring 2024)
V506 Statistical Analysis for Effective Decision Making (Spring 2025)
V512 Public Policy Process (Spring 2025)
V517 Public Management Economics (Spring 2025)
V517 Public Management Economics (Richards) (Fall 2024)
V532 Social Equity and Justice (Deng) (Fall 2024)
V535 Managing and Leading in Public Affairs (Spring 2025)
V536 Rights and Responsibilities: How Laws Shape Public Affairs (Spring 2025)
V537 Designing and Managing Complex Projects (Fall 2024)
V538 Comparative and International Policy Process (Spring 2025)
V548 Evidence-Based Decision Making (Silva) (Fall 2024)
V550 Homeland Security (Fall 2024)
V550 Environmental Project Management
V550 Cloud Computing in Public Affairs (Spring 2025)
V550 Program Planning, Design, and Implementation (Hybrid)
V550 Risk, Trust, Credibility and Public Participation (Hybrid)
V550 Social Policy
V550 Public Transportation Management (Fall 2024)
V550 Communication in Public and Nonprofit Affairs (Fall 2023)
V550 Future Shock: Cyber Security and Climate Change
V550 Race and Policing (Fall 2023)
V550 Transportation Technology, Sustainability, Safety and Equity Policy (Fall 2023)
V550 Global Governance in the 21st Century (Fall 2024)
V550 Cybersecurity Law I
V550 National Security Bureaucracy and Policy (Spring 2024)
V550 Survey Research (Spring 2025)
V550 Food Policy (Fall 2023)
V550 Energy and Climate: Law and Policy (Fall 2024)
V550 Energy Systems in Transition (Fall 2023)
V550 Environmental Policy (Fall 2023)
V550 The Federal Budget Process in Theory and Practice (Fall 2024)
V550 Marketing Management for Nonprofit Organizations (Spring 2025)
V550 Life Cycle Assessment (Spring 2024)
V550 Climate Change Policy (Spring 2025)
V550 Planning for Climate Change and Resilient, Urban Communities (Summer 2024)
V559 Principles and Practices of Social Entrepreneurship
V582 Metropolitan Development: The Case of Berlin (Spring 2024)
V606 Statistics for Research in Public Affairs I
V607 Statistics for Research in Public Affairs II
V640 Law, Public Management, and Public Policy
V680 Research Design and Methods in Public Affairs
V707 Statistics for Research in Public Affairs II (Spring 2025)
X511 Human Behavior and Energy Consumption (Spring 2025)
H524 Health Industry Regulation (Spring 2024)
H525 Health Economics for Policy and Management (Spring 2025)
H526 Healthcare Finance (Fall 2024)
H549 Health Policy (Spring 2025)
H585 Practicum 1 in Healthcare Leadership (Grudi) (Fall 2024)
H585 Practicum 1 in Healthcare Leadership (Newton) (Fall 2024)
H586 Practicum 2 in Healthcare Leadership (Grudi)
BUKD-K 520 Quantitative Analysis (Fall 2023)
BUKD-X 520 Kelley Washington Campus Program (Healthcare)
BUKD-X 574 Career Discovery and Design (Summer 2023)
BUS-P 579 Supply Chain Management and Digital Tech (Fall 2024)
BUS-X 518 Business of Life Sciences: Trends (Spring 2024)
BUS-X 519 Business of Life Sciences: Value Chain (Fall 2023)
BUS-X 545 Management Foundations (Summer 2025)
*For additional O'Neill syllabi, see the other accordion tabs under the "Course Syllabi" section
Topics courses (V550 and E555) may be used to fulfill concentration electives, provided the topic is approved for your specific concentration. Topic offerings vary each semester. If you wish to count a topics course in a concentration for which it is not pre-approved, please consult with your faculty concentration advisor to discuss an individual exception.
Descriptions will be added as they become available. Not all topics are taught every semester. Check the schedule of classes or the "pre-approval" link above to see which topics are offered for the upcoming semester. If you do not see a topics description, please email the professor for the most current syllabus.
Climate Law & Policy - Spring 2022
Cloud Computing in Public Affairs - Fall 2020
Conservation Planning - Spring 2022
Economic Development Financing - Spring 2022
Environmental Policy - Fall 2020
Food Policy in a Changing World - Spring 2021
Food Systems and Community Resilience - Spring 2021
Fundamentals of Sustainable Agriculture - Fall 2020
Global Security Governance in the 21st Century - Fall 2020
Homeland Security: Policy and Practice - Fall 2021
International Development Financing - Spring 2022
International Environmental Policy - Fall 2020
Justice, Advocacy, and Policy (Partial Syllabus) - Spring 2022
Marketing Management for Nonprofit Organizations
Natural Gas: Technical and Policy Challenges
Planning for Climate Change and Resilient Communities
Plant and Plant Communities (2022)
Program Planning, Design, and Implementation (Hybrid)
Renewable and Nuclear Energy - Spring 2021
Risk, Trust, Credibility and Public Participation (Hybrid)
Silviculture and Sustainable Forestry - Fall 2020
Sustaining Urban Economics - Spring 2022
Capstone Course Descriptions & Resources
Be prepared! Visit our Capstones Expectations page to find helpful advice and information to ready yourself for the capstone experience. Descriptions of past and present capstones are linked below.
Global Capstone (Ghana): Capstone in Public and Environmental Affairs (Brass)
SPEA-H 600 (MSHM Capstone Practicum)
SPEA-H 524 (Healthcare Industry Regulation) (Spring 2024)
SPEA-V 600 (Capstone in Public Affairs) {for V600 descriptions, see the other accordion tabs under "Capstone Course Descriptions & Resources"}
Global Capstone: Nonprofit Strategies for Atlantik-Brucke (Audretsch)
Mapping the Nonprofit Ecosystem of Indiana (Fulton)
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Southwestern Indiana (Littlepage)
Strategic Planning for the IU Auditorium (Nicholson-Crotty)
Strategic Planning for Enhanced Emergency Food Relief in Knox County, Indiana (Farmer)
O'Neill International Courses
Study abroad on a faculty-led program for 1-6 weeks while completing concentration electives with O’Neill International! Below are concentration pre-approvals along with past study abroad and virtual international course syllabi for students to review. Not all courses listed will be offered in a particular semester. To view an up to date roster of study abroad courses offered each year, visit the O’Neill International Office website.
Energy, Environment, and Social Innovation, South Korea - 2025
Microgrids for Rural Development, Exploring Renewable Energy Solutions, Nepal - 2025
Public Economies in Comparative Perspective, Indonesia - 2025
A Comparative Approach to Understanding Global Human Resource Management - (Barbados, 2019)
Strategic Management in the International Context, Bavaria & Berlin - 2020
Global Perspective of Public and Private Sector Interaction, Bavaria & Lombardia - 2019
Metropolitan Development: The Case of Berlin, Germany - 2023
Island Conservation Management and Sustainability, Caribbean (Bonaire) - 2020
Nonprofit Sector in Comparative Perspective Copenhagen, Denmark - 2019
Comparative Music Industry, Graz, Austria - 2018
Cross-cultural Conflict and Dispute Resolution, Ireland - 2019
Overseas Study Program Arts Management in Israel (Tel Aviv) - 2018
Coral Reef Restoration & Conservation, Cayman Islands - 2020
United States and United Kingdom National and Homeland Security in London - (London, 2019)
United States and United Kingdom National Security and Homeland Security in London (online) - 2020
Urban Problems and Solutions in Poland - 2019
Environmental Policy and Management in Vietnam - 2019
Comparative Music Industry in Weimar - 2019
Sustainability and Rural Livelihoods in West Africa, Senegal & Gambia - 2019
On the Rhine: Public Policy and Administration in the European Union,
Germany, and the United States - 2019