PUBLIC PARTICIPATION FOR PLANNING AND POLICY MAKING

Prerequisites & course information

Requisites: Graduate/professional standing Course Designation: Grad 50% - Counts toward 50% graduate coursework requirement Repeatable for Credit: No Last Taught: Fall 2025 Learning Outcomes: 1. Explain what public participation is and its application to planning, policy-making, and related decision-making processes, including benefits and challenges, the interplay between professional and community-based or local knowledge, values and ethics, and responsibilities of those leading participatory processes. Audience: Graduate 2. Involve people meaningfully in planning and decision-making processes and create public participation plans, including goals and objectives tailored to specific project needs, techniques suitable to the goals, objectives and circumstances, and assessing effectiveness through ongoing evaluation. Audience: Graduate 3. Use public participation applications and skills recognizing effective communication principles, sources of outrage and deep emotion, empathy, listening skills, constructive practices, and aligned participatory and facilitation techniques. Audience: Graduate 4. Recognize conflicts and anticipate conflict resolution options in participatory processes by demonstrating knowledge of conflict resolution concepts and approach, analyzing conflict situations, and understanding proven techniques for resolving conflicts. Audience: Graduate Learning Outcomes: 1. Explain what public participation is and its application to planning, policy-making, and related decision-making processes, including benefits and challenges, the interplay between professional and community-based or local knowledge, values and ethics, and responsibilities of those leading participatory processes. Audience: Graduate 2. Involve people meaningfully in planning and decision-making processes and create public participation plans, including goals and objectives tailored to specific project needs, techniques suitable to the goals, objectives and circumstances, and assessing effectiveness through ongoing evaluation. Audience: Graduate 3. Use public participation applications and skills recognizing effective communication principles, sources of outrage and deep emotion, empathy, listening skills, constructive practices, and aligned participatory and facilitation techniques. Audience: Graduate 4. Recognize conflicts and anticipate conflict resolution options in participatory processes by demonstrating knowledge of conflict resolution concepts and approach, analyzing conflict situations, and understanding proven techniques for resolving conflicts. Audience: Graduate