MPA in Development Practice 1

   Columbia University is a dynamic institution, attracting new faculty and
introducing new courses every year. As a result, the curriculum may

 vary slightly from year to year. In some of the core areas, we require
students to take a specific course. In others, we give students options
among different course offerings that meet the core learning requirement.
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courses that cover each of these core curriculum areas (30.5 points):
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During the school year, students undertake coursework in a wide range
MPA-DP: Getting Started 0
of disciplines and sectors. This classroom education is supplemented by
PUAF U4423 MPA-DP "Getting Started"
a three-month professional summer field placement. The program's core
Sustainable Development Practice 3
courses teach students the skills and professional knowledge needed to
effectively address ongoing sustainable development challenges. INAF U6043 Sustainable Development Policy and
Practice
Students must complete a minimum of 54 points to be considered for Economics (Completed during the first year) 6
graduation. Including, Select one of the following sequences:
SIPA U6300 Microeconomics for International and
• 30.5 points in the core curriculum - SIPA U6301 Public Affairs
• A minimum of 15 points in the Sustainable Development Focus Areas and Macroeconomics for International
(p. 2) and Public Affairs
• And any additional elective courses, as needed, to meet the minimum SIPA U6400 Microeconomic Analysis for International
54 points - SIPA U6401 and Public Affairs
and Macroeconomic Analysis for
  International and Public Affairs
Statistics (Completed during the first year) 3
Glenn Denning, Professor of Professional Practice
Director of the MPA in Development Practice SIPA U6500 Quantitative Analysis I for International
and Public Affairs
gd2147@columbia.edu
Global Food Systems (Completed during the first year) 3
Andre Correa d'Almeida PUAF U6411 Universal Food Security
Associate Director of the MPA in Development Practice Development Practice Lab I (Completed during the second semester of 3
ac3133@columbia.edu first year)
PUAF U6254 Development Practice Lab I
Glenn Denning, Professor of Professional Practice in International and
Development Practice Lab II (Completed during first semester of second 3
Public Affairs; Director of the MPA in Development Practice (MPA-DP)
year)
PUAF U6255 Development Practice Lab II
Social Sector (Any semester) 3
Yanis Ben Amor, Assistant Professor of Global Health and Microbiological Students can choose a social sector course from a list of approved
Sciences courses - dependent on semester offerings.
Benjamin C Bostick, Lamont Research Professor in the Lamont-Doherty ENVP U6239 Politics # Policy of Urban Sustainability
Earth Observatory INAF U6041 Corporations and Human Rights
Andre Correa d’Almeida, Adjunct Associate Professor of International and INAF U6042 Energy, Enterprise and Development
Public Affairs INAF U6053 Creating a Social Enterprise
Susmita De, Lecturer of International and Public Affairs (part-time) INAF U6124 Building # Scaling Social Impact
Allison Greenberg, Lecturer of International and Public Affairs (part-time) Programs
Karla Hoff, Adjunct Professor of International and Public Affairs INAF U6126 Design for Social Innovation
Samantha McCann, Lecturer of International and Public Affairs (part-time)
INAF U6129 Storytelling and The Art of Creating
Sarah Rosengaertner, Lecturer of International and Public Affairs (part- Social Impact Campaigns
time)
INAF U6136 Social Impact Strategic Planning,
Jeffrey Sachs, Quetelet Professor of Sustainable Development and Measurement & Evaluation
Professor of Health Policy and Management
INAF U6137 Social Value Investing: a Framework for
Lisa Sachs, Adjunct Associate Professor of International and Public Cross Sector Partnerships
Affairs
INAF U6144 Media Campaigning and Social Change
Aniket Shah, Adjunct Assistant Professor of International and Public
INAF U6186 Community Economic Development
Affairs
INAF U6173 Migration and Human Development
Shiv Someshwar, Adjunct Professor of International and Public Affairs
Minerva Tantoco, Adjunct Professor of International and Public Affairs INAF U6190 Complex Emergencies: Root Causes to
Rebuilding
Visit our SIPA Faculty Directory to view bios INAF U6886 Social Impact: Business, Society, and the
Natural Environment
INAF U6303 Financial Inclusion
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INAF U6374 Mainstreaming Gender in Global Affairs SIPA U4044 Professional Development
INAF U6375 Gender and Livelihoods SIPA U4045 Professional Development
INAF U6412 State and Society in the Developing Capstone Workshop 3
World Students must complete one of the following courses:
INAF U6735 Issues in Rural Development SIPA U9000 Capstone Workshop
INAF U6751 International Human Rights Law SIPA U9001 Capstone Workshop in Sustainable
INAF U6771 Economic Inequality and Its Policy Development Practice
Implications Summer Placement 3
INAF U6772 Global Inequality PUAF U9015 MPA-DP: Field Study
INAF U8180 Human Rights Skills # Advocacy
INAF U8195 Behavioral Development Economics   
INAF U8350 Finance for the World's Poorest
Matriculated students in this program can view their degree audit report
INAF U8507 Security Council and Peacekeeping in
on Stellic.
Africa in the 21st Century
INAF U8785 Gender, Politics and Development: Students must complete at least 15 points of any combination of courses
Theory, Policy # Practice from the following Sustainable Development Focus Areas. Focus Areas
PUAF U6228 Comparative Social Welfare Policy are not formal designations (like MIA/MPA Concentrations); they are
PUAF U6239 Comparative Urban Policy: Global thematic niches around which students may opt to develop specific
Developing Cities expertise. In addition to completing courses from Focus Areas, students
PUAF U6244 Urban Social Policy must complete at least 8.5 points of electives. Students may choose
PUAF U6247 Planning # Implementing Urban electives from Focus Areas or any other courses coded 4000-level or
Sustainability, Equity # Economic above. Please refer to the requirements tab for more information about
Development completing your degree.
PUAF U6325 Critical Issues in Urban Public Policy
PUAF U6413 Global Health and Public Policy   y  
PUAF U8351 Race, Gender and Political Change Points
REGN U6410 Social Movements # Citizenship in Africa SIPA Courses
REGN U6639 Gender and Development in Southeast INAF U6115 Cost Benefit Analysis for Developing 3
Asia Economies
Non-SIPA Courses: INAF U6259 Adaptation to Climate Change 3.00
EDPE Y4051 Education & Economic Development INAF U6735 Issues in Rural Development 3
EHSC P8301 Climate Science for Public Health INAF U8354 Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprise 3.00
EPID P6400 Principles of Epidemiology (MSME) Development
HBSS Y5112 Social Marketing and Health INAF U8910 Struggles for Sustainability 3.00
Communication INAF U8912 Technology, Innovation and Sustainable 1.5
HRTS GU4500 Socio-Economic Rights Goals
HRTS GR6800 International Human Rights Law PUAF U6195 Transformation Through Sustained 3
ITSF Y4005 Education in Emergencies Agricultural and Rural Development:
ITSF Y4038 Monitoring and Evaluation in Education Policies and Institutions

ITSF Y4090 Issues and Institutions: International PUAF U6412 Global Nutrition Science and Policy 3
Educational Dev SDEV U6240 Environmental Science for Sustainable 3.00
LAW L6506 Gender Justice Development

MGMT B7557 Social Entrepreneurship MDP Independent Study (Selected 3

Topics)
NECR K5170 Restorative Practices
Non-SIPA Courses
POPF P8615 Current Issues in Sexual Health
EESC W4404 Regional Dynamics, Climate, and Climate
POPF P8651 Water and Sanitation in Complex
Impacts
Emergencies
NUTR M8220 Food and Nutrition: a Public Health 3
SUMA K4130 Sustainable Cities
Perspective
SUMA K5162 Responsiveness and Resilience in the
NUTR M6220 Introduction to Public Health Nutrition
Built Environment
POPF P8646 Food and Nutrition in Complex 1.5
Professional Development (Completed during the first year) 0.5
Emergencies
Students must complete the required course and one (1) elective
SUMA K4240 Sustainable Agriculture
course
SUMA K5030 Hungry City Workshop 3
Required Course:

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SIPA U4040 Professional Development
Elective Courses:
SIPA U4041 Professional Development Points
SIPA U4042 Professional Development SIPA Courses
SIPA U4043 Professional Development
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EMPA U6510 Managing Social and Economic Risk: 3 INAF U6173 Migration and Human Development 3
Comparative Public Policy Approaches INAF U6174 Forced Migration: Concepts and Policy 3
EMPA U9225 Public Management Innovation 3.00 INAF U6190 Complex Emergencies: Root Causes to 3
ENVP U6400 Financing the Green Economy: Markets, 3 Rebuilding
Business, & Politics INAF U6198 Technology for Intl Crisis Response # 1.5
INAF U6004 Application Development for Social 1.5 Good Governance
Impact INAF U6211 Technology Solutions for Development & 3
INAF U6016 Cost-Benefit Analysis 3 Social Change
INAF U6053 Creating a Social Enterprise 3 INAF U6391 Conflict Resolution 3.00
INAF U6114 Private Sector Development Outcomes 3 INAF U6490 International Humanitarian Law and 3
INAF U6134 Raising Capital for Social Venture 1.5 International Criminal Law
INAF U6301 Corporate Finance 3 INAF U6495 Politics & Practice of Humanitarian 1.5
Action in the Era of Sustainable
INAF U6617 Environmental, Social # Governance 1.5
Development Goals
Investment
INAF U6497 Humanitarian Crisis in the Eastern DRC 1.00
INAF U8350 Finance for the World's Poorest 3.00
INAF U6551 Why We Fail: Lessons in Conflict 3.00
INAF U8454 Investment Strategies in Developing 3
Resolution # Atrocity Prevention
Countries
INAF U6563 Containing Conflict: A Comparative 3
INAF U8678 Strategies for Investing in Emerging 3
Historical Perspective
Markets
INAF U6882 Yemen at War 1.5
INAF U8354 Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprise 3
(MSME) Development INAF U8166 Rethinking Human Rights # 3
Humanitarianism
INAF U8908 Sustainable Investing Research 3
Consulting Project INAF U8559 Building Peace After Conflict 1.5
PUAF U6033 Decision Models # Management 3 INAF U8690 Managing Humanitarian Emergencies 3
PUAF U6265 Financing Sustainable Development: The 1.5 INAF U8882 Practicum on Education in Emergencies 1.50
Realities of the Challenge INAF U8886 Conflict Assessment 1.00
SIPA U4011 Advanced Techniques in Excel 0 INAF U8910 Struggles for Sustainability 3.00
SIPA U6014 Strategic and Entrepreneurial 3.00 PUAF U6801 Negotiation # Conflict Resolution 3.00
Management SDEV U6260 Disasters and Development 3
SIPA U6200 Accounting for International and Public 3.00 MDP Independent Study (Selected 3
Affairs Topics)
SIPA U6310 Nonprofit Financial Management 3 Non-SIPA Courses
Non-SIPA Courses LAW L8115 Negotiation Workshop 3
COMS W4460 PRIN-INNOVATN/ENTREPRENEURSHIP 3.00 LAW L9383 International Humanitarian Law 2
IEME E4200 HUMAN-CENTERED DESIGN AND 3.00 MGMT B8510 Managerial Negotations 3
INNOVATION
POPF P8625 Communicable Disease in Complex 1.5
MGMT B8519 Launching New Ventures 3 Emergencies
MGMT B8527 Social Venture Incubation 1.5 POPF P8639 Gender-based Violence in Complex 1.5
MGMT B8559 Social Entrepreneurship: Global Emergencies
Perspective POPF P8648 Food and Nutrition in Complex 1.5
MRKT B8608 New Product Development 1.5 Emergencies
MRKT B8613 Entrepreneurial Selling 1.5 SUMA K4330 Disaster Risk Management and 3
SUMA PS4100 Sustainability Management 3 Sustainable Urban Resilience
SUMA PS4190 ECONOMICS OF SUSTAINABILITY 3.00 POPF P8620 Protection of Children in Disaster & War 1.5
MANAGEMENT POPF P8673 Refugee Reproductive Health 1.5
SUMA K5142 Sustainable Finance POPF P8651 Water and Sanitation in Complex 1.5
SUMA K5195 Accounting, Finance, and Modeling of Emergencies
Sustainable Investments
SUMA PS5445 IMPACT FINANCE FOR STNBLTY 3.00 
PRACTITIONERS
Points

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INAF U8201 Public Education: New Strategies for a 1.5
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INAF U8882 Practicum on Education in Emergencies 1.5
Points
PUAF U6460 Benchmarking Skills for Process # 1
SIPA Courses
Organizational Improvement
INAF U4090 Accountability in Humanitarian Action 1.00
Non-SIPA Courses
INAF U6141 Humanitarian Crisis Simulation 1.00
C&T Y4032 Gender, Difference, and Curriculum 3
INAF U6154 Humanitarian Communications 3
EDPA Y4013 Education Policy and Manage Instruction 3
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EDPE Y4051 Education and Economic Development 3 SUMA K4230 The Earth's Climate Systems 3
HBSS Y5111 Planning Health Education Programs 3 SUMA PS4734 Earth Institute Practicum 0
ITSF Y4038 Monitoring and Evaluation in

ITSF Y4055
International Educational Development
Resource Allocation in Education 3
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ITSF Y4092 Qualitative Research and Evaluation in 3 
International Education Points
ITSF Y4094 Educational Planning in International 3 SIPA Courses
Educational Development
INAF U4420 Oil, Rights and Development 1
ITSF Y4603 Human and Social Dimensions of Peace 3
INAF U4759 Human Rights Practicum 1
ITSF Y5003 Communication and Culture 3
INAF U6041 Corporations and Human Rights 3

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INAF U6143 Gender, Globalization, and Human Rights 3
INAF U6303 Financial Inclusion 3
Points INAF U6371 Globalizing Reproduction: Care, 1.5
SIPA Courses Childbearing and Gender in International
ENVP U6228 Corporate Sustainability and the Role of 3 Perspective
Government in Advancing Environmental INAF U6373 Gender Policy Practicum 1.5
& Social Performance INAF U6374 Mainstreaming Gender in Global Affairs 3
ENVP U6400 Financing the Green Economy: Markets, 3 INAF U6375 Gender and Livelihoods 1.5
Business, & Politics INAF U6381 Gender & Armed Conflict: Contemporary 3
INAF U4420 Oil, Rights and Development 1 Theory and Practice for Advocates
INAF U6016 Cost-Benefit Analysis 3 INAF U6405 Human Rights and the Politics of 3
INAF U6040 International Energy Project Finance 3 Inequality
INAF U6042 Energy, Enterprise and Development 3 INAF U6751 International Human Rights Law 3
INAF U6057 Electricity Markets 3 INAF U6774 Public Policy # Inequality in Developing 3.00
INAF U6061 Global Energy Policy 3 Countries

INAF U6079 Clean Energy Financial Innovation 1.5 INAF U6765 The European Union and Human Rights 1.5

INAF U6135 Renewable Energy Markets and Policy 3 INAF U8166 Rethinking Human Rights # 3
Humanitarianism
INAF U6230 Corporate Sustainability: Issues, 3
Strategies, and Practice INAF U8180 Human Rights Skills # Advocacy 3

INAF U6242 Energy Policy 3 INAF U8183 Tools for Advocacy 3

INAF U6259 Adaptation to Climate Change 3 INAF U8189 Politics of History and Reconciliation 3

INAF U6264 Meeting the Climate Challenge at all 3.00 INAF U8350 Finance for the World's Poorest 3.00
Levels of Government INAF U8785 Gender, Politics and Development: 3
INAF U6267 Climate-security: Examining the links 1.50 Theory, Policy # Practice
between climate change, peace and INAF U8892 Business and Human Rights Clinic I 3
security INAF U8893 Business and Human Rights Clinic II 3
INAF U6326 Renewable Energy Project Finance 3 PUAF U8349 Intersections of Race and Power in 3.00
Modeling Development
INAF U6327 Carbon Pricing 3 REGN U6149 Energy, Corporate Responsibility # 3.00
INAF U6429 Energy Industry in the BRICS 3 Human Rights
INAF U8537 Climate Change Policy 3 REGN U6545 Human Rights in the Western Balkans 1.50
PUAF U6190 Investing in the Energy Transition: 3 Non-SIPA Courses
exploring policy dilemmas, complexities HRTS GU4215 NGOs # THE HUMAN RIGHTS 3
and trade-offs MOVEMENT
REGN U6149 Energy, Corporate Responsibility # 3 HRTS GU4270 SOCIAL MEDIA AND HUMAN RIGHTS 3
Human Rights HRTS GU4500 SOCIO-ECONOMIC RIGHTS 3
SDEV U6240 Environmental Science for Sustainable 3 HRTS GU4650 CHILDREN'S RIGHTS ADVOCACY 3
Development
HRTS GU4900 UN HUMAN RIGHTS BODIES:IMPACT- 4
Non-SIPA Courses REFORM-ADV
CLMT GR5003 Managing and Adapting to Climate HRTS GU4915 HUMAN RIGHTS # URBAN PUB SPACE 3
Change
HRTS GU4930 INT'L HUMANITARIAN LAW/HUM RGTS 4
CLMT GR5012 Social Impact Business, Society, and the
HRTS GU4950 HUMAN RIGHTS # HUMAN WRONGS 3.00
Natural Environment
HRTS G5300 Economic and Social Rights in Policy and 3
EAEE E4009 GIS for Resource, Environmental, and 3
Practice
Infrastructure Management
HRTS GR5400 Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity, and
EHSC P8304 Public Health Impacts of Climate Change 3
Human Rights
PLAN A6009 Environmental Data Analysis 3
HRTS GR5404 Human Rights of Women
HRTS GR6020 INTRO TO HUMAN RIGHTS 3
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HRTS GR6800 INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS LAW 3 EPID P8465 Epidemiology of HIV/AIDS 3
HSME G4154 Pan Africanism EPID P8469 Epidemiology of Malaria 3
POPF P8607 Health and Human Rights Advocacy HBSS Y5112 Social Marketing and Health
POPF P8676 Epidemiological Methods for Measuring Communication
Human Rights Abuses HBSV Y5013 Strategies for Nutrition Education and
POPF P8683 Psychosocial and Mental Health Issues 1.5 Health Behavior Change
in Forced Migration HPMN P8539 Health and Health Systems in low 3
Income Countries

    HPMN P8561 Managing Public Health Non-Profits 1.5

 HPMN P8595

NUTR M8220
Emerging Markets in Healthcare
Food and Nutrition: a Public Health 3
Points Perspective
SIPA Courses POPF P6670 Accountability and Ethics in
INAF U6001 Colloquium on Technology and the 1 Humanitarian Assistance
Future of Governance and Public Policy POPF P8561 Water & Sanitation in Complex
INAF U6051 Infrastructure Investment and 1.5 Emergencies
Development POPF P8601 Public Health Program Planning 3
INAF U6198 Technology for Intl Crisis Response # 1.5 POPF P8614 Management of Health Care 3
Good Governance Organizations
INAF U6226 Leadership # Innovative Policy Making 3 POPF P8620 Protection of Children in Disaster & War 1.5
INAF U6301 Corporate Finance 3 POPF P8625 Communicable Diseases in Complex
INAF U6359 Global Economic Governance 3 Emergencies
INAF U6538 State Building in the Developing World 3 POPF P8626 Planning Child Survival Programs
INAF U6826 Political Participation, Mobilization, and 3.00 POPF P8639 Gender-based Violence in Complex 1.5
Socialization Emergencies
INAF U8095 Corporate Governance, Investor 3 POPF P8640 Methods in Program Evaluation 3
Stewardship and ESG POPF P8642 Health Assessment, Program Design, and 1.5
INAF U8183 Tools for Advocacy 3 Program Assessment
INAF U8537 Climate Change Policy 3 POPF P8643 Maternal and Child Health in 3
International Primary Health Care
PUAF U6028 Public-Private Partnerships To Foster 1.5
Effective, Sustainable # Scalable POPF P8648 Food and Nutrition in Complex 1.5
Nonprofits Emergencies
PUAF U6032 Leading and Sustaining Change – 1.5 POPF P8651 Water and Sanitation in Complex 1.5
Frameworks, Tools and Skills Emergencies
PUAF U6135 Civic Innovation # Designing for People 1.50 POPF P8654 Malaria Program Planning
PUAF U6190 Investing in the Energy Transition: 3 POPF P8659 Fundamentals of Health Care Systems in 1.5
exploring policy dilemmas, complexities Developing Countries
and trade-offs POPF P8670 Training for Public Health Progams 3
PUAF U6195 Transformation Through Sustained 3 POPF P8671 Globalization of Motherhood 3
Agricultural and Rural Development: POPF P8672 Beyond Choice: Emerging Complexities in 1.5
Policies and Institutions Reproductive Health
Non-SIPA Courses POPF P8673 Reproductive Health in Crisis Situations 1.5
LAW L6546 Global Constitutionalism 3 POPF P8675 Health Systems Approach to Maternal 1.5
Mortality
 POPF P8676 Epidemiological Methods for Measuring
Human Rights Abuses
Points
POPF P8683 Psychosocial and Mental Health Issues 1.5
SIPA Courses
in Forced Migration
INAF U6016 Cost-Benefit Analysis 3
POPF P8685 Migration and Health: Global and Local 1.5
PUAF U6413 Global Health and Public Policy 3.00 Perspectives
Non-SIPA Courses POPF P8687 Public Health and Humanitarian Action 3
BIST P6103 Introduction to Biostatistics 3 POPF P8691 Public Health Advocacy for Reproductive 1.5
DROM B8118 Transforming Healthcare Delivery Health
EHSC P6300 Environmental Health Sciences 3 SOSC P8705 Evaluation of Health Programs 3
EHSC P8304 Public Health Impacts of Climate Change 3 SOSC P8725 Global AIDS Policy 3
EHSC P8329 Water, Sanitation, and Human Health 3 SOSC P8745 Social and Economic Determinants of 3
EHSC P9320 Water and Infectious Disease 3 Health
EPID P6400 Principles of Epidemiology 3 SOSC P8771 Community-Based Participatory Reseach 3
EPID P8438 Epidemiology II: Design and Conduct of in Public Health
Observational Epidemiology SOSC P8785 Qualitative Research Methods 3
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SOSC P8793 Public Health Emergency Preparedness 3 INAF U6242 Energy Policy 3
and Response INAF U6429 Energy Industry in the BRICS 3
INAF U6517 Tech Policy in the Developing World: Data 1.5
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Points INAF U8217 Tools and Principles for Managing in 3

the Information Economy and the Media
SIPA Courses
Sector
ENVP U6275 GIS for International Studies 3
INAF U8454 Investment Strategies in Developing 3
INAF U6002 Principles of Innovation & 3 Countries
Entrepreneurship (PIE)
INAF U8689 Global Financial Services in the 21st 3
INAF U6004 Application Development for Social 1.5 Century
Impact
INAF U8778 Distributed Energy Economics, 3
INAF U6006 Computing in Context 3 Technology, and Policy
INAF U6198 Technology for Intl Crisis Response # 1.5 INAF U8912 Technology, Innovation and Sustainable 1.5
Good Governance Goals
INAF U6211 Technology Solutions for Development & 3 PUAF U6190 Investing in the Energy Transition: 3
Social Change exploring policy dilemmas, complexities
INAF U6515 Technology and the Future of 1.5 and trade-offs
Governance # Public Policy PUAF U6195 Transformation Through Sustained 3
INAF U6614 Data Analysis for Policy Research Using 3.00 Agricultural and Rural Development:
R Policies and Institutions
INAF U6914 Policies and Practices in Human- 3.00 REGN U6149 Energy, Corporate Responsibility # 3
Centered Digital Development Human Rights
INAF U8912 Technology, Innovation and Sustainable 1.5 SDEV U6240 Environmental Science for Sustainable 3
Goals Development
PUAF U6217 Operations Management 3 Non-SIPA Courses
PUAF U8410 The Use of Science-based Evidence in 3.00 CIEE E4163 SUSTAINABLE WATER TREAT/REUSE 3
Decision and Policymaking CIEN E4010 Transportation engineering 3
SIPA U4022 Research, Design & Prototype a Mobile 0 CIEN E4137 Managing Civil Infrastructure Systems 3
App
EHSC P8371 Public Health GIS 3
Non-SIPA Courses
FINC B8767 Investing in Social Ventures 3
DROM B8125 Digital Literacy for Decision Makers 1.50
HPMN P8535 Organization and Delivery of Population 3
DROM B8144 Introduction to R Programming 1.50 Based Public Health Services
QMSS G4071 Advanced GIS & Spatial Analysis PLAN A4010 Planning for Climate Change in Urban
SOSC P8718 Health Communication: Media Strategies Energy Systems
and Global Innovation PLAN A4579 Introduction to Environmental Planning 3
SOSC P8795 New Media and Health PLAN A6108 Land Use Planning 3
PLAN A6232 Advanced GIS 3
 POPF P8625 Communicable Disease in Complex 1.5
Points Emergencies
SIPA Courses POPF P8651 Water and Sanitation in Complex 1.5
Emergencies
ENVP U6112 Urban Ecology 2.00
QMSS GR5070 GIS # SPATIAL ANALYSIS-SOC SCI 4
INAF U4420 Oil, Rights and Development 1.00
SOSC P8718 Health Communication: Media Strategies
INAF U6016 Cost-Benefit Analysis 3.00
and Global Innovation
INAF U6040 International Energy Project Finance 3.00
SUMA PS4130 Sustainable Cities 3
INAF U6042 Energy, Enterprise and Development 3.00
SUMA K4330 Disaster Risk Management and
INAF U6051 Infrastructure Investment and 1.50
Sustainable Urban Resilience
Development
SUMA K5150 Energy and Sustainable Development 3
INAF U6057 Electricity Markets 3.00
INAF U6066
INAF U6115
Energy # Power Financing Markets
Cost Benefit Analysis for Developing
3.00
3
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Economies Points
INAF U6116 Infrastructure Cost-Benefit Analysis 3.00 SIPA Courses
INAF U6131 Impact Investing: Essential Skills 1.50 EMPA U6605 Urban Policy by Design 3.00
INAF U6135 Renewable Energy Markets and Policy 3 ENVP U6112 Urban Ecology 2.00
INAF U6186 Community Economic Development 3 ENVP U6228 Corporate Sustainability and the Role of 3
INAF U6198 Technology for Intl Crisis Response # 1.5 Government in Advancing Environmental
Good Governance & Social Performance

INAF U6211 Technology Solutions for Development & 3 ENVP U6235 Environmental Finance 3.00
Social Change ENVP U6239 Politics # Policy of Urban Sustainability 3.00
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INAF U6016 Cost-Benefit Analysis 3.00 INAF U8098 Impact Investing: Intention, Fiduciary 1.5
INAF U6051 Infrastructure Investment and 1.50 Duty and Measurement
Development INAF U8145 Advanced Economic Development for 3
INAF U6057 Electricity Markets 3 International Affairs
INAF U6135 Renewable Energy Markets and Policy 3 PEPM U6204 Development Economics 3
INAF U6186 Community Economic Development 3.00 SIPA U6501 Quantitative Analysis II for International 3
and Public Affairs
INAF U8778 Distributed Energy Economics, 3
Technology, and Policy SIPA U8500 Quantitative Methods in Program 3
Evaluation and Policy Research
PUAF U6239 Comparative Urban Policy: Global 3
Developing Cities SUMA K5025 Corporate Sustainability
PUAF U6249 Digital Innovation for Urban Governance 3.00 SUMA K5033 Decisions Models and Management
PUAF U6251 Urban Economics 3 SUMA K5035 GHG Emissions: Measuring and
Minimizing
PUAF U6427 Technology, Innovation and Economic 1.5
Development in Cities
PUAF U8248 Leadership # Urban Transformation 3.00   
PUAF U8250
SIPA U6005
Governing the 21st Century City
Effective Management in the Public
3.00
3.00
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Students must meet the following requirements in order to be approved
Service
for graduation:
SIPA U6320 Budgeting # Financial Management for 3.00
Government
• Complete 54 credits in residence at SIPA
Non-SIPA Courses
• Complete 4 residency units
PLAN A4010 Planning for Climate Change in Urban 3
• Complete all core requirements, including 15 points of any
Ecosystems
combination of courses from the Sustainable Development Focus
PLAN A4387 Public Private Partnerships, Privatization, 3
Areas; 8.5 points of electives; and 12 weeks professional summer
and New City Government
placement.
PLAN A6108 Land Use Planning 3
• For MPA-DP students, credits obtained from classes taken Pass/
PLAN A6232 Advanced GIS 3
Fail, when a letter grade is an option, do not count towards the 54
PLAN A6941 Urban Analytics & Decision Making 3
needed to graduate.
SUMA K4030 Hungry City Workshop
• Have a cumulative GPA of 3.0 or above
SUMA K4235 The Science of Urban Ecology
• Have no pending grades. All grades must be final. Any notations
SUMA K4330 Disaster Risk Management and
Sustainable Urban Resilience indicating a pending grade must be converted to a final grade prior
to graduating. These include, “IN” (incomplete), “CP” (credit pending)

    and “YC” (year-long course).

• Complete and submit the Application for Degree or Certificate by the
Points
appropriate deadline.
INAF U6004 Application Development for Social 1.5
Impact In addition to the above, please note that grade changes cannot be made
INAF U6046 Global Media: Policy Lab and Innovation 1.50 post-graduation.
INAF U6116 Infrastructure Cost-Benefit Analysis 3
INAF U6120 Visual Storytelling 3    
INAF U6128 Impact Investing and Financial 1.5 Students can use the Degree Audit Report (DAR) in Stellic to track their
Innovation academic progress.
INAF U6131 Impact Investing: Essential Skills 1.5
INAF U6137 Social Value Investing: a Framework for 3 The DAR is an unofficial guide to the MPA-DP core.
Cross Sector Partnerships
To request revisions to the Degree Audit Report, please fill out the Degree
INAF U6141 Humanitarian Crisis Simulation 1
Audit Report Correction Form and submit the form to the Student Affairs
INAF U6154 Humanitarian Communications 3
Office.
INAF U6183 Innovation for Development in Practice 1.50
INAF U6564 Applied Peacebuilding and Conflict 3 Degree Audit Report Correction Form
Resolution: Fieldwork Competencies
INAF U6604 Applied Econometrics 3   
INAF U6705 Environmental, Social and Governance 3.00
- MPA-DP students cannot double-count courses within their degree core
Reporting
(e.g., social sector with focus areas requirements).
INAF U6889 Impact Measurement # Evaluation for 3
For those MPA-DP students grandfathered into a specialization:
Sustainable Development
INAF U6891 Impact Evaluations in Practice 1.5 - No more than two courses (or 6 credits) may be double counted
INAF U6897 Writing on Policy 3 between the MPA-DP focus area and specializations.
INAF U6898 Program Evaluation and Design 3
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- No more than one course (or 3 credits) may be double-counted between

two specializations.

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Beginning with the MPA-DP class May 2022, students will be granted
STEM eligibility upon graduation.