The goal of this course is to provide a theoretical and 
practical understanding of program evaluation in education, 
business, community, and social change settings. Students are 
expected to complete the course with a greater understanding of:
     a.	The political, real world, and practical face of 
        evaluation
     b.	The theoretical, social, and scientific face of 
        evaluation
     c.	Approaches to program evaluation
     d.	Standards and ethical practices in evaluation
     e.	Designing, implementing, reporting, and managing an 
        evaluation
     f.	Resources on the study and practice of evaluation

•	The purposes of program evaluation
      o	Evaluation in comparison to research
      o	State of evaluation literature and practice
•	Utilization focused and developmental evaluation
•	Planning the evaluation
•	Working with stakeholders
•	Logic models
•	Designing the evaluation
•	Standards of practice
•	Alternative evaluation approaches
•	Conducting the evaluation
•	Collecting and analyzing the data
•	Writing the evaluation report
•	Ethical aspects in evaluation—revisited
•	The future of evaluation
      o	Meta-evaluation, evaluators, field of practice,
        literature

All academic work must meet the standards contained in “A 
Culture of Honesty.” Each student is responsible to inform 
themselves about those standards before performing any academic 
work. “A Culture of Honesty” is the University of Georgia's 
policy and procedures for handling cases of suspected 
dishonesty and can be found online at www.uga.edu/ovpi. UGA 
Student Honor Code states "I will be academically honest in all 
of my academic work and will not tolerate academic dishonesty 
of others."