Lecturer
Position Title: Lecturer
Sector: Education/Universities
Company Name: Northwestern University
Field of Interest: Education
Job Function: Academic: Adjunct or Part-time
Location(s): Chicago, Illinois, 60601, United States | Online, Other / Non-US, United States
Posted: October 22, 2010
Entry Level: No
Job Type: Part-Time
Job Duration: 1-3 Months
Degree Desired: Master's: MPA, MPP, MPM, etc.
Level of Experience: Mid-Career
Job Description
Northwestern University is seeking instructors for its Master of Arts in Public Policy and Administration (MPPA) program. The MPPA program explores public policy issues, applications, and analysis and the administrative systems necessary to implement policy. The program is designed to be of particular benefit to early and mid-career managers and executives working in local and state government agencies, though much of the curriculum is applicable to careers in federal government, foundations, and associations.
MPPA courses are offered in both an on-campus and an online format. On-campus classes meet once a week for 10 consecutive weeks in the evening in the Chicago area. Online courses can be conducted from anywhere in the United States. Please visit our website for more detailed information about our programs and courses: http://scs.northwestern.edu/grad/.
We welcome the opportunity to speak with you more about the program. Please forward a resume and letter of inquiry, mentioning the specific courses you are most interested in teaching.
We have a particular interest in faculty who are able to teach the following:
MPPA 404-DL: Microeconomics for Public Policy and Administration (online course)
Economics is about choice, and microeconomics is the study of resource allocation choices, beginning with how consumers and producers make choices. This course is aimed at developing student understanding of microeconomic theory, especially as it concerns the relationship between the market economy and public policy. Topics include consumer behavior and the theory of demand; production, cost, supply functions; choices under uncertainty, insurance; competitive equilibrium; subsidies, taxes, price controls; monopoly and monopsony; price discrimination and public utility pricing; monopolistic competition; general equilibrium theory and welfare economics; information theory; and public goods, externalities and market failure. Required core course in the distance learning program.
MPPA 407-0 Scope and Dynamics of Public Policy (on-campus course, Chicago or Evanston)
This course is an introduction to the public policy process in the United States. It focuses on developing an understanding of what "political" and "public policy" mean and how public policy is made. The course considers agenda setting, decision making theory and methods of analyzing policy outcomes. Course materials will provide students with the analytical framework to explore why some problems reach the public agenda, why some solutions are adopted and others rejected, and why some policies appear to succeed while others appear to fail. It will examine policy making primarily at the national level but will also look at examples at the state and local level.
Job Requirements
We require all of our instructors to hold a minimum of a master's degree (PhD preferred). Instructors must have significant work experience in the areas in which they teach.
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