Description: Seminar, 90 minutes; outside study, four and one half hours. Requisite: course 210. Limited to MPP students. First course of year-long sequence designed to ensure that students and their teams are fully prepared to launch their projects at start of Winter Quarter. Students form teams that are assigned to seminars and instructors, identify clients, select and refine policy questions motivating their projects, develop and refine basic work plans, learn about various methods of data collection, and complete and submit all necessary forms required for human subjects research. S/U grading.

Units: 2.0