Information for Current Students

Academic Year 2020-2021

Orientation and summer courses: offered virtually as a result of the Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19).
Fall and spring: Students have the option to pursue a hybrid of in-person and remote learning OR take classes entirely remotely. All classes with more than 20 students will be held remotely. In-person instruction is at the discretion of the professor. All core classes will be held remotely. Core classes include:

• Policy Analysis and Problem Solving
• The Politics of Policymaking in Comparative Perspective
• Policy Problems of the 21st Century
• Systems Dynamics: Policy Analysis for a Complex World
• Management and Implementation in Public and Non-Profit Organizations

Subject to change based on federal, state, and University guidance. See detailed information about the University's response to COVID-19 at healthy.brown.edu.

MPA Graduate Student Handbook 2020-2021 

Sequence	Course
Orientation  June 1 - 5, 2020	Program overview
Summer Sequence 1 June 8 - July 10, 2020	Economics for Public Policy
	Statistics for Public Policy
Summer Sequence 2 July 13 - August 13, 2020	Economics of Government Intervention
	Statistics for Program Evaluation
Fall Semester September 9 - December 11, 2020 Remote reading period/final exams: November 29 - December 11)	Policy Analysis and Problem Solving
	The Politics of Policymaking in Comparative Perspective
	Elective 1
	Elective 2
Spring Sequence 1 January 4 - February 26, 2021	Policy-In-Action Consultancy
Spring Sequence 2 March 1 - April 23, 2021 (Remote reading period/final exams: April 12 - April 23, 2021)	Policy Problems of the 21st Century
	Systems Dynamics: Policy Analysis for a Complex World
	Management and Implementation in Public and Non-Profit Organizations
	Elective 3

Classes and course sequence subject to change.

Commencement
May 2, 2021 (tentative)