MPA Practicum

Catalog description

Over the course of the next 10 weeks the MPA Summer Practicum will focus on various changemaking competencies (e.g. teamwork, building strategic relationships, communicating value, engaging with communities, creating meaningful content) that will bridge theory to practice, and integrate frameworks gained from your public administration coursework with real world applications. While normally achieved via an on-site internship, the Practicum will offer unique learning opportunities in today’s “remote”, social distanced world by having participants actively engage with community actors, using COVID19 as the backdrop.This practicum seeks to challenge our expectations: for the institutions we build, for the solutions we design, and most critically, our expectations for the limits of our own social imagination. Students will exercise skills developed throughout this course to wrestle with the essential question: How are society’s institutions evolving to adapt to our new landscape?