日前，中国教育在线邀请张伟用先生为特聘记者，赴美国采访南加大公共政策学院的副院长Carol Rush和南加大公共政策学院MPP研二学生Xue Hanyu。与其它高校的相关专业相比，南加大公共政策学院最大的优势是跨学科性质，将城市规划、房地产开发、公共政策、公共管理、卫生政策和管理五个领域融合在一起，并且要求学生参与社区事务，在实践中获得第一手资料。

　　出国留学预科班 https://www.liuxue114.com/Carol: I think it’s the interdisciplinary nature of our School. I think we are the only school that really brings together those five fields. Students in classes are not just in classes with students of their own degree, but they are in classes with students in many of these degrees. So I think students who graduate from this School really know how to cross the public, the private, and the non-profit sector. And I think that really makes us distinctive from other programs. The other thing about our University and our School is that USC is the oldest private research university in the western part of the United States. And California and particularly, Los Angeles, where we are located is the microcosm of the world. We are dealing with some of the most pressing policy problems. So being here in Los Angeles allows students to really get a lot of hands-on experience that complements their coursework. So the class is not just...you go to class, you read the books and you talk to the professors about what you read in the books or what he or she wrote in the books. You are taking those theories out to the communities. And you may do that through internships. You may do it through some courses, called laboratories, or maybe projects that students do out in the communities. I think, one of the most outstanding strengths of our school is the community engagement.

　　Carol: 我认为最大的优势是我们学院的跨学科性质。我们是唯一一个能把五个领域（城市规划、房地产开发、公共政策、公共管理、卫生政策和管理）相融合的学院。学生不仅修读其本专业学位方向的课程，还要修读其他专业学位方向的课程。因此，我觉得我们学院的毕业生能在公共领域、私营领域和非盈利领域真正地做到游刃有余。我觉得这就是我们与其他项目与众不同的地方。另外，值得一提的是，我们的南加州大学在美国西部地区是一所历史最为悠久的私立研究型大学。我们的校址——加州，尤其是洛杉矶就是世界的缩影。我们应对的是一些最为紧迫的政策问题。因此不像其他一些项目，在洛杉矶学生可以获得很多实践经验，来弥补他们理论课程学习上的不足。因此上课时并非单纯地去听课，你还得做大量的阅读，然后和教授们探讨书本里提到的内容。但是，你要把书本中的理论应用于社区。这一点你可以通过实习来完成，也可以通过一些课程比如实验课，或者在社区中所做的项目来完成。我认为我们学院最突出的优势就是参与社区事务。

　　Xue: I think that part is very important. One of the Capstone Projects I am doing now was that we need to improve the foster youths employment rate here in L.A. Rather than ，like what Carol just said—reading the book, reading all these papers, we need just to conduct many interviews both on the L.A. County levels and then on the non-profit organization levels. You need to interview this and that and acquire the data from your own field trips and investigations.

　　薛: 我觉得这部分很重要。比如说我正在做一个Capstone项目，该项目旨在提高洛杉矶地区寄养家庭年轻人的就业率。除了Carol刚才提及的阅读相关书籍及论文外，我们还得在洛杉矶郡范围内进行采访，此外我们还得采访非盈利性组织。正如Carol刚才所说的，我们所做的绝不仅局限于书面上，阅读各种报告，我们需要采访事件所设计的各级部门，比如洛杉矶郡，比如从非营利组织的层面。你需要通过各种采访、实地考察来获取一手的研究数据。

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