This course is designed to familiarize students with core skills in data access, manipulation, analysis, and presentation using Excel (and Excel-like alternatives).
No large American city grew more rapidly than Detroit from 1900 to the 1930s. Thanks to Henry Ford and the automobile manufacturing, Detroit became the prosperous axis mundi of the world vehicle industry. After World War II, Detr
Instructor: Broderick Johnson - The United States, by far, leads the world in incarcerating its citizens. Mass Incarceration has destroyed many lives, ripped apart many f
This 4-credit course will provide an introduction to the fundamentals of evaluation research design and methods as applied to public policies and programs.
This course will explore the legal enforcement of those human rights that are fundamental and are the birthright of all human beings. We will review the international political and legal framework established over the past fifty years to pro
Private philanthropic foundations in the U.S. are fundamentally private organizations that operate within the public arena, and have long played central roles in advancing social change and shaping.
This course, structured as a seminar and writing workshop, intensively develops students' persuasive writing and critical reading skills through abundant practice and feedback.
This 1.5 credit module will introduce students to the roles that governmental agencies play in environmental protection at the federal and state levels in the United States.
This is a course in facilitating complex and difficult dialogic moments of engagement in the social, professional and institutional spheres of the public arena.
This course is an introduction to programming and working in STATA, a core statistical program in the social sciences. In a variety of fields, STATA remains the baseline program for analysis, data management, and visualization.
PUBPOL 495 (Policy Seminar) is for students currently enrolled in the Public Policy Undergraduate Program only, no exceptions. Enrollment is by permission only.
PUBPOL 495 (Policy Seminar) is for students currently enrolled in the Public Policy Undergraduate Program only, no exceptions. Enrollment is by permission only.