Distance Education Off-Campus Course Offerings . . . . . Spring 2008

COURSE TITLE:	Impact Analysis
COURSE:	C Dev 514X
COURSE DESCRIPTION:	This course teaches the basics of economic and fiscal impact analysis. It includes the scenario construction, basics of input-output analysis, careful use of multipliers, estimations of local revenues, expenditures, and discounting.
PREREQUISITES:	Graduate classification; Offered through the Great Plains IDEA consortium, students will need to contact Carrie Brus for registration information and enrollment; cbrus@iastate.edu
CREDITS:	1 graduate credit
COMPUTER REQUIREMENT:	See College of Agriculture Computer Requirements
DATES:	April 8-May 9, 2008
DELIVERY METHOD:	Web, taught by Iowa State University
TUITION:	$415 per credit
OFF-CAMPUS PROGRAM:	Master of Science in Interdisciplinary Studies, Community Development specialization
INSTRUCTOR:	David Swenson, dswenson@iastate.edu
REGISTRATION DEADLINE:	March 24 , 2008
TEXT:	Schaffer, William. Regional Impact Models. 1999. Regional Research Institute, West Virginia. Shaffer, Deller, and Marcouiller. 2004. Community Economics: Linking Theory & Practice. Blackwell Publishing. Johnson, Otto, and Deller (eds.) 2006. Community Policy Analysis Modeling. Ames, IA: Blackwell Publishing.