Practicum is an effort to teach doctoral students how to solve problems identified by real-world ‘client’ organizations that generate both practice outcomes, i.e. research reports that are likely to enable practitioners to improve their planning and operations to materially benefit the lives of people and their neighborhoods, and research outcomes, i.e. research reports that are potentially presentable at scholarly conferences and publishable in peer-reviewed academic journals. This course is, in a sense, a ‘capstone’ to the core curriculum that students complete during their first two years in the Public Policy Ph.D program. Practicum integrates knowledge about the theory of public policy, political economy and political institutions in such a way that students may place the specific problem of a public sector organization in a larger social context, linking government and non-governmental actors and the political and social environments in which they work. It also integrates knowledge about economics, so that students can formulate conceptual models of markets in which public organizations operate and the preferences, incentives and impacts, intended and unintended, that characterize the organization and the policies it pursues.