Course catalog

Microeconomics for Public Policy

Description:

This course prepares students to understand the political and institutional environment within which public policy is formulated and implemented. The primary focus will be on policy processes within...

PUBPOL 330

Fall 2016

U-M Class#:

30244

Credit Hours:

Instructor:

Betsey Stevenson

Course Section:

002

Days:

M, W

Time:

10:00am - 11:30am

Details

Description:

This course develops students' abilities to use microeconomic analysis to further our understanding of public policy. Major topics include models of consumer and firm behavior, operation of market...

PUBPOL 330

Microeconomics for Public Policy

Fall 2016

U-M Class#:

19123

Credit Hours:

Instructor:

Sharon Maccini

Course Section:

001

Days:

M, W

Time:

10:00am - 11:30am

Details

Description:

This course develops students' abilities to use microeconomic analysis to further our understanding of public policy. Major topics include models of consumer and firm behavior, operation of market...

PUBPOL 412

Environ in Pub Pol

Fall 2016

U-M Class#:

30336

Credit Hours:

Instructor:

Course Section:

001

Days:

Tu, Th

Time:

10:00am - 11:30am

Details

Description:

Public policy embodies an assortment of value systems. While individual value systems express coherent, consistent approaches, public policy expresses an amalgam of values, with corresponding...

PUBPOL 422

Congress and State Legislatures: Effective of Outmoded?

Fall 2016

U-M Class#:

20140

Credit Hours:

Instructor:

John Schwarz

Course Section:

001

Days:

Tu, Th

Time:

11:30am - 1:00pm

Details

Topics: The History and Future of Detroit

Description:

Is Congress too partisan? Can Congress fulfill its legislative and oversight functions? Do the executive and judicial branches effectively control public policy formulation? Have the State...

PUBPOL 466

Fall 2016

U-M Class#:

23987

Credit Hours:

Instructor:

Walter Reynolds Farley

Course Section:

001

Days:

Tu, Th

Time:

8:30am - 10:00am

Details

Description:

Detroit was the nation's most important city in the Twentieth Century because of the the auto industry, the emergence of the blue collar middle class and development of the New Deal. Now it is the...

Topics: The US Higher Education System: Policy Issues and Controversies

Fall 2016

U-M Class#:

27550

Credit Hours:

Instructor:

James Kvaal

Course Section:

304

Days:

M, W

Time:

1:00pm - 2:30pm

Details

Description:

This course will delve into policy issues and controversies in the US Higher Education system. Topics will include: affordability issues and student debt, scholarships, and "free tuition"; efforts to...

Global Financial Markets, Crises, and Policies

Fall 2016

U-M Class#:

33419

Credit Hours:

Instructor:

Kathryn Dominguez

Course Section:

311

Days:

M, W

Time:

10:00am - 11:30am

Details

Description:

Global financial markets provide both opportunities and risks for macroeconomic policymakers. In this course we will explore the role of financial markets in economic development, the causes and...

Topics: The Policy Implications of Detroit’s Grand Bargain

Fall 2016

U-M Class#:

27485

Credit Hours:

Instructor:

Course Section:

103

Days:

Time:

6:00pm - 8:00pm

Details

Description:

A look at the unique deal that settled Detroit's municipal bankruptcy. Foundations, corporations, foundations and governments stepped out of their normal operating boundaries to craft an $800 million...

Topics: Poverty & Inequality

Fall 2016

U-M Class#:

28397

Credit Hours:

Instructor:

Natasha Pilkauskas

Course Section:

310

Days:

M, W

Time:

2:30pm - 4:00pm

Details

Description:

This course examines the nature, extent and causes of poverty and inequality in the US relying on a multidisciplinary literature from sociology, political science, economics, and psychology. The...

Topics: Leadership & Communication in State Level Policy Making

Fall 2016

U-M Class#:

28455

Credit Hours:

Instructor:

Craig Ruff

Course Section:

309

Days:

Time:

6:00pm - 9:00pm

Details

Description:

This course examines the interaction of politics and policymaking at the state level. It examines issues such as the role of lobbyists, the impact of campaign and election reforms, and the...

Topics: Psychology of Climate Change

Fall 2016

U-M Class#:

31012

Credit Hours:

Instructor:

Kaitlin Raimi

Course Section:

308

Days:

Tu, Th

Time:

10:00am - 11:30am

Details

Description:

Climate change often feels like a problem that our brains have been hardwired to ignore. Climate change is abstract and complex, making it hard for non-scientists (including policy-makers) to...

Topics:Michigan Politics & Policy

Fall 2016

U-M Class#:

21453

Credit Hours:

Instructor:

Debra Horner

Course Section:

306

Days:

M, W

Time:

11:30am - 1:00pm

Details

Description:

This course is designed to familiarize students with the Michigan political system and learn about current policy issues at play both statewide and in local communities. We'll have an overview of...

Topics: The University of Michigan: Past, Present, & Future

Fall 2016

U-M Class#:

30737

Credit Hours:

Instructor:

James Duderstadt

Course Section:

305

Days:

Tu, Th

Time:

2:30pm - 4:00pm

Details

Description:

In 2017-2018, the University of Michigan will celebrate its Bicentennial, two hundred years of leadership in American higher education. The study of Michigan's history— its current challenges,...

Topics: Facilitating Dialogue Across Fault line: Race, Identity and Socio-Cultural Difference

Fall 2016

U-M Class#:

27309

Credit Hours:

1.5

Instructor:

Yazier Henry

Course Section:

502

Days:

Time:

4:00pm - 6:00pm

Details

Description:

This is a short introductory course module in facilitating complex and difficult dialogic moments of engagement in the social, professional and institutional spheres of the public arena. Its purpose...

Imagining the Global Environment: History, Science, Policy

Fall 2016

U-M Class#:

33420

Credit Hours:

Instructor:

Chad Monfreda

Course Section:

312

Days:

M, W

Time:

10:00am - 11:30am

Details

Description:

What is a “global” environmental problem, and how do we “know” when we have one? How have societies conceived of the environment in the past, and how might we re-imagine our relationship to the...

Topics: Contemporary Public Policy Formation

Fall 2016

U-M Class#:

23126

Credit Hours:

Instructor:

Harold Ford

Course Section:

101

Days:

Time:

4:00pm - 6:00pm

Details

Description:

The class deals with the political, practical and substantive facets of policy making. We do this by analyzing the passage - and sometimes failure - of signature pieces of federal legislation that...

Topics: The Policymaking Process: How Health Care Reform was Enacted

Fall 2016

U-M Class#:

31011

Credit Hours:

1.5

Instructor:

James Kvaal

Course Section:

507

Days:

Tu, Th

Time:

1:00pm - 2:30pm

Details

Description:

This course will focus on the role of different actors? perspectives in the policy process. The emphasis will be on understanding the different goals, tools, and constraints facing different actors...

Policy Seminar: Current Issues in Tax Policy

Fall 2016

U-M Class#:

28129

Credit Hours:

Instructor:

Stephanie Leiser

Course Section:

004

Days:

M, W

Time:

1:00pm - 2:30pm

Details

Description:

PUBPOL 495 is open to students in the Public Policy BA program, by permission only. Oliver Wendell Holmes famously said that "Taxes are what we pay for civilized society," but who should pay and how...

Policy Seminar: Irrational Actors: Psychological Approaches to Decision Making

Fall 2016

U-M Class#:

20009

Credit Hours:

Instructor:

Kaitlin Raimi

Course Section:

003

Days:

Tu, Th

Time:

2:30pm - 4:00pm

Details

Description:

PUBPOL 495 is open to students in the Public Policy BA program, by permission only. Classic economics is based on the idea of rational actors people making decisions that maximize their own utility...

Policy Seminar: Election Reform

Fall 2016

U-M Class#:

20008

Credit Hours:

Instructor:

Ann Lin

Course Section:

002

Days:

M, W

Time:

8:30am - 10:00am

Details

Description:

PUBPOL 495 is open to students in the Public Policy BA program, by permission only. Most American government textbooks and a wide array of democracy-promoting organizations would agree that the “free...

Policy Seminar: Apology, Reconcile, Reparations & PP

Fall 2016

U-M Class#:

19421

Credit Hours:

Instructor:

Yazier Henry

Course Section:

001

Days:

Tu, Th

Time:

1:00pm - 2:30pm

Details

Description:

PUBPOL 495 is open to students in the Public Policy BA program, by permission only. How do nations founded through political conflict and extreme social traumas come to systemic terms with the...

PUBPOL 499

Senior Seminar in Applied Public Policy

Fall 2016

U-M Class#:

30711

Credit Hours:

Instructor:

Janet Weiss

Course Section:

001

Days:

Time:

4:00pm - 6:00pm

Details

Description:

This course offers senior public policy students an opportunity to conduct a policy analysis project in an area of their interest. Each student will identify a policy outcome of personal interest,...

PUBPOL 510

The Politics of Public Policy

Fall 2016

U-M Class#:

22364

Credit Hours:

Instructor:

Shobita Parthasarathy

Course Section:

002

Days:

Tu, Th

Time:

8:30am - 10:00am

Details

The Politics of Public Policy

Description:

This is a core course restricted to Ford School students only This section of 510 focuses on political strategy and policy processes in comparative perspective. Students will learn how national and...

PUBPOL 510

Fall 2016

U-M Class#:

25167

Credit Hours:

Instructor:

Valenta Kabo

Course Section:

001

Days:

Tu, Th

Time:

1:00pm - 2:30pm

Details

Description:

This is a core course restricted to Ford School students only This section of 510 aims to help you better understand policy analysis and the political environment within a context of American...

PUBPOL 510

The Politics of Public Policy

Fall 2016

U-M Class#:

25166

Credit Hours:

Instructor:

Susan Waltz

Course Section:

003

Days:

Tu, Th

Time:

1:00pm - 2:30pm

Details