公共政策分析是一门以政府政策为研究对象、以解决问题为核心、以行动为取向的新兴交叉学科，是国内外综合性大学政治学、公共管理、工商管理专业研究生和高年级本科生普遍开设的一门专业基础课程。由于公共政策分析强调整合各类学科知识以解决现实中的公共问题，因而它在提高学生的思维能力、分析和解决问题的能力方面具有独特的优势。本课程的基本任务是，通过本课程的学习，使学生掌握公共政策分析的基本理论、原理与方法，能够培养学生独立发现并分析生活中各种政策问题的能力以及初步的政策咨询能力。

Public policy analysis is an emerging interdisciplinary which helps government to solve social problems, so action-oriented is one of the prominent features of public policy analysis. This course is generally a professional foundation course in the department such as political science, public administration and business management in comprehensive university at home and abroad. As public policy analysis emphasizes the integration of knowledge from various disciplines to solve public problems in reality, therefore it has a unique advantage in improving students' thinking ability, the ability to analyze and solve problems. It will introduce the students to key concepts, theories and methods in policy analysis. The course provides ample opportunities for students to discuss and to interact with experts and practitioners in the field through case teaching, and class discussion. The main goals of this course are to make students master the basic theory principles and methods of public policy analysis, get the ability of independent discovery and analysis of a variety of policy issues in reality as well as the initial policy advisory capacity.