Schoolbooks & Courses Threadi

[CrONoS]

Summer is mainly over; courses are beginning!!!

What's yours?

Mine:

POL-61964 : Public Management:
-- Public Management and Administration: an Introduction 3rd ed.

ECN-61965 : Methods of political analysis
-- Principles of cost-benefit analysis in a Canadian context

POL-67183 : Ethics & Public Administration

POL-61963 : Public Policy

[rah]

POL-67183 : Ethics & Public Administration

an oxymoron if I've ever heard one.

[ramseya]

Principles of cost-benefit analysis in a Canadian context

Canadian context? Why would cost-benefit analysis be in any context? Especially a Canadian context?

[CrONoS]

Originally posted by rah

an oxymoron if I've ever heard one.

I was about to bet 5$ that someone would say something similar!!! :wiglaf:

[rah]

I was a poly-sci major also, so trust me, I heard them all.

[CrONoS]

Originally posted by ramseya


Canadian context? Why would cost-benefit analysis be in any context? Especially a Canadian context?

I bet that many case studies are coming from canadian example.

[CrONoS]

Principles of Cost-Benefit Analysis in a Canadian Context [18] is a book that emphasizes the importance of having a finite economic life or LCCA for typical public sector projects such as dams, bridges, and hydroelectric facilities. All economic methods are included in addition to presenting practical methods for accounting for risk and uncertainty in cost-benefit analysis. Three cases of projects throughout Canada are presented and their economic evaluation is discussed. These projects are the Northumberland strait fixed crossing project, the Trans Labrador highway project, and the Rafferty-Alameda dams project.

[rah]

Put the handgun to your head now and save time.

[CrONoS]

hahahhahahah!!!

[ramseya]

Why a whole course on cost-benefit analysis? I got my BBA in Finance and cost-benefit analysis is critical in that field but we never had an entire course on it. Then again, it was talked about in just about every class but still, how can they drag out something as simple as net present value and what not over the course of an entire semester?

[snoopy369]

Because in public policy, determining the net present value of a Dam or another large public work is difficult...

[Kuciwalker]

CS-412 Operating System Practicum
CS-451 Algorithm Design and Analysis
Math-355 Real Analysis
Math-373 Algebra
Math-441 Number Theory

[Zkribbler]

Re: Schoolbooks & Courses Threadi

Originally posted by CrONoS
...
POL-67183 : Ethics & Public Administration
...

Pardon my cynicism.

[Verto]

ENGL3830 - American Lit to 1870
MILS 1180 and 3341 (Army ROTC)
PHYS 1052 - Solar System
PSCI 3010 - American State & Local Government
PSCI 3100 Topcs of American Government: Political Communication (taught by a Canadian from Montreal)

So far it looks like I'll only have to spend maybe 100 bucks on books, instead of 2-3x that like usual.

[Wiglaf]

ROTC should cover your books. Let it be known that during my senior year of college I took courses on Islamofascism, homosexuality in Paris in literature, particle acceleration, and the psychological makeup of non-neutered African males as opposed to the ones with the penis skins. One of my friend made notecards and drawings of the penis, leading to much ridicule and hilarity when we had drunk sex. Electives are very easy to come by when you plan early, save some of the party for later