PUBPOL 5930
Writing Professional Reports for Public Affairs
This seven week course will focus on writing for policy and professional audiences in public affairs. This course is directed toward second-year students in the MPA program who plan to complete a professional report to meet the MPA degree writing requirement. Students will define their research project for a client organization, and develop the professional report proposal, project management workplan, and literature review for their professional report. (MPA-TPA)
Topics
- Students will demonstrate research project and proposal development in relation to client organizations, including determining project scope, purposes, objectives, and procedures and alignment with the mission and need of a client organization.
- Students will develop a prospectus and a literature review for a professional report of relevance to a client organization, as well as demonstrate skills necessary to communicate with a broad audience.
- Students will present research findings to non-academic audiences through oral and written presentations.
Official roster learning outcomes
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗2026-2027