Global Public Policy and Management EMPA

Students will spend the first semester at NYU Wagner in New York City, the Spring Term at UCL and the summer in locations across the globe working on a client-based Capstone project. Core modules bridge cutting-edge concepts and skills in policy analysis, management, implementation, and facilitating change. Students will then select from the offerings of both institutions to craft an approach best suited to their specific needs.

Students undertake modules to the value of 150 credits (equivalent to 30 credits at NYU or 75 ECTS credits).

The programme consists of four core modules (two at UCL and two at NYU), four optional modules (two at UCL and two at NYU) and a Capstone project.

• Global Public Policy Analysis Reform
• Institutions, Governance, and Public Sector Reform

• Strategy and Organisational Change
• Policy Implementation

Students select two from NYU Wagner and two from UCL. The below are suggestions.

• Design Thinking: A Creative Approach to Problem Solving and Creating Impact
• Global Health Policy
• Conflict Management and Negotiation
• International Economic Development: Government Markets
• International Development Project Planning
• Politics of International Development
• Sustainable Cities
• Please see the NYU website for all available options.

• Agenda Setting and Public Policy
• Policy-Making & Regulation in Europe
• Human Rights: Politics and Practice
• International Trade Policy
• Law & Regulation
• Making Policy Work
• Public Management: Theories and Innovations
• Please see the UCL website for all available options.

All students undertake a Capstone group project which allows them to expand on their own experiences, knowledge and skills acquired through the programme to deliver a concrete task for a public services organisation. The project can be conducted in any part of the world.

The programme is delivered through a combination of lectures, seminars, presentations and educational visits e.g. the British Library. Assesment is through examinations, essays and the Capstone group project.