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Bloustein School Catalog
To graduate, doctoral students must take 72 credits: 48 course credits and 24 research (dissertation research and writing) credits. Up to 24 program credits (subject to the approval of the program director) can be transferred from a previously completed master's program.
Required classes in theory and methods courses include:
16:970:624 Planning, Public Policy and Social Theory
Lake
Contemporary social theory applied to planning and policy; the role of the state in globalization, space, and scale; gender, race, and culture; citizenship, ethics, and social justice.
Listokin
Doctoral-level study of scholarly exposition, peer research review and the preparation of research proposals. Students prepare proposals encompassing doctoral-level synthesis of theory and analytic methods.
Sass Rubin
Students apply techniques of qualitative research, including interviewing, ethnography, and phenomenology, to help them gain an understanding of which techniques are appropriate for what specific research needs.
Jagannathan, Lahr
This course begins with a review of linear regression and focuses on categorical dependent variables. Methods include linear probability, logit, probit, multinomial, and conditional logit models.
Students are encouraged to
take upper-level graduate coursework within the Bloustein School's and as well
as elsewhere within the . Students may also take approved graduate classes at Princeton University as part of the Rutgers–Princeton exchange program.
Fischer
This course examines the theory of public policy, the practices of policy planning, and the policy-analytic role of the planner. Drawing on policy issues from urban, environmental, economic, and development planning, the stages of the policy process are examined—policy agenda setting, policy planning and formulation, decision-making, implementation, and program evaluation. In the process, the various types of public policies and policy instruments are examined, the role of policy entrepreneurs, comprehensive planning versus incremental approaches to decision-making, problems of program implementation, the logic and ethics of urban policy experimentation, and collaborative policy planning and lay knowledge. Influential advocacy coalition and rational choice theories of policy development and change are also examined and compared with their postpostivist/postmodern alternatives, emphasizing argumentation, narrative explanation, social construction and discourse coalitions. In the context of this latter discussion, the lectures and discussions explore the interplay of theories and methods in policy and planning, examining the differences between positivist/empiricist and postpositivist/qualitative approaches.
The specific coursework in theory and methods, and more generally
the classes taken by each doctoral student, must be approved by
the Course of Study (COS) committee. The Rutgers doctoral program
in planning and public policy is very flexible and adaptable
to an individual student's interests.
To assist the selection of appropriate courses,
first and second year doctoral students are required to submit a
course of study (COS) form in the fall semester. The COS is reviewed
by the doctoral program director and other faculty members (COS
committee) with the doctoral student in order to develop an individually
crafted program. That program should guide the students' course
selection.
First year doctoral students are required to attend
a doctoral seminar. Attendance at this seminar is strongly recommended
for second year doctoral students.
First and second year doctoral students will
be asked to present a formal paper at doctoral conferences periodically
held at the Bloustein School.
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