Recent recorded grades — Spring 2025: 3.89 GPA, 92.6% A/AB (n=27 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.96 GPA, 96.4% A/AB (n=28 letter grades). Includes jointly taught sections.
Spring 2027
Workshop in Public Affairs
A workshop in program and policy analysis where student teams work on real problems for public agencies, developing analytical, writing, and presentation skills.
offering recorded3 credits
Summary
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Recent recorded grades — Spring 2024: 3.87 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=34 letter grades); Spring 2025: 3.89 GPA, 92.6% A/AB (n=27 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.96 GPA, 96.4% A/AB (n=28 letter grades).
What you’ll be able to do
Demonstrate critical thinking skills by examining strengths and weakness of public policy literature, evaluating evidence for and against hypotheses, synthesizing knowledge, and developing conclusions.
Effectively summarize and clearly communicate data, real world policy problems, and policy literature for a general audience or policy audience.
Apply tools of policy analysis to investigate a policy problem and provide advice to a client audience to mitigate the problem while maintaining fidelity to objective social science-based research methods.
Identify and appropriately respond to scenarios involving the ethical and professional responsibilities of public administration and adhere to high levels of professional conduct, ethical decision making and legal and regulatory compliance.
Demonstrate the ability to maintain human subject protections when designing studies, collecting data and reporting results.
Demonstrate effective project management and teamwork.
Source: UW Guide
Grade history
↗ average GPA
583583 letter grades
A87.1%87.1%
AB10.6%10.6%
B1.5%1.5%
BC0.5%0.5%
C0.0%0.0%
D0.2%0.2%
F0.0%0.0%
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Prerequisites
Course mapPUB AFFR 873 and declared in Public Affairs MPA
- PUBAFFR 873 · unspecified
- declared in Public Affairs MPA
This is a best-effort interpretation; check the catalog requirements above.
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- All of
- PUBAFFR 873 · unspecified
- declared in Public Affairs MPA
Professors
Spring 2027No course-specific feedback yet.
Historical instructors & teaching patterns
JASON AARON DELBORNE is recorded teaching in Spring 2025, Spring 2026. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.
Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.
Calendar & sections
Spring 2027Schedule loads here as you scroll.
| Section | Mode | Enrolled / capacity | Waitlist |
|---|---|---|---|
| SEM 001 | Classroom Instruction | 0 / 35 | 0 |
Times are Central. Select a meeting for details; export includes recorded dates for the selected sections. Enrollment reflects scan time.
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Student experience
the class
Recent recorded grades — Spring 2024: 3.87 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=34 letter grades); Spring 2025: 3.89 GPA, 92.6% A/AB (n=27 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.96 GPA, 96.4% A/AB (n=28 letter grades).
difficulty & workload
No workload feedback recorded.
Topics
- Program and policy analysis
- Real-world problems for public agencies and organizations
- Critical thinking in public policy literature and hypothesis evaluation
- Human subject protections in study design and data collection
Skills
- Analytical skills, report preparation, and writing
- Applying tools of policy analysis to investigate policy problems and advise clients using social science-based research methods
- Effective project management and teamwork
Grades
Latest available · Spring 2026— not enough history to project Spring 2027.
average GPA
A / AB grades
letter grades
Instructor
Grade distribution · % of letter grades
A96.4%96.4%
AB0.0%0.0%
B3.6%3.6%
BC0.0%0.0%
C0.0%0.0%
D0.0%0.0%
F0.0%0.0%
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Through Spring 2026
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Workshop in Public Affairs
Recorded 2026-10-14Raw records
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Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B
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