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PUBPOL 495.005

PUBPOL 495.005: Policy Seminar: Drugs, Crime, and Terrorism

Melvyn Levitsky

PubPol 495 is open to students in the Public Policy BA program, by permission...

PUBPOL 475.004

PUBPOL 475.004: Topics: Higher Education & Public Policy

Kevin Stange

This course will examine the higher education sector from several different angles, but with an emphasis placed on the economic...

PUBPOL 475.005

PUBPOL 475.005: Topics: Cybersecurity for Future Leaders

Javed Ali

Location: 1010 Dow Engineering Building (North Campus). Co-taught with Dr. Carl Landwehr, Lead Research Scientist, Cyber Security Policy & Research Institute, George Washington...

PUBPOL 300

PUBPOL 300: Persuasive Policy Writing

Beth Chimera

This course, structured as a seminar and writing workshop, intensively develops students' persuasive writing and critical reading skills through abundant practice and...

PUBPOL 413

PUBPOL 413: Professional Development

***Course meets in person on February 1 and February 8...

PUBPOL 423

PUBPOL 423: Political Campaign Strategy & Tactics

Gerald Hills

There is no policy without victory. More precisely, well-planned and well-executed political campaigns win elections and make governing...

PUBPOL 457

PUBPOL 457: Data Visualization for Public Policy

Alton Worthington

This course will provide students with fundamental principles of and practical experience in presenting data in a visual form for communication and...

PUBPOL 466

PUBPOL 466: The History and Future of Detroit

Walter Reynolds Farley

Class meets: 3/18, 3/20, 3/23 tour of Detroit,...

PUBPOL 467

PUBPOL 467: STATA for Public Policy

Alton Worthington

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...

PUBPOL 468

PUBPOL 468: Oil & Gas in the U.S.

Daniel Raimi

Hydraulic fracturing and horizontal drilling have made the United States the world's largest producer of oil and natural gas. What does that mean for the domestic economy, energy prices, foreign policy, climate change, and local...

PUBPOL 474

PUBPOL 474.001: Values & Ethics: Lying and Public Policy

Lying has been getting a lot of attention lately and for good...

PUBPOL 474

PUBPOL 474.002: Values & Ethics: Science, Technology, and the Social Good

Joy Rohde

Science and technology intersect with many areas of public...

PUBPOL 475.307

PUBPOL 475.307: Topics: Campaign Finance Reform

Richard Hall

Federal election spending from all sources has doubled over the last twenty years and the 2018 election continued the trend. Campaign spending in the midterms exceeded $5 billion for the first time, much of it coming...

PUBPOL 475.304

PUBPOL 475.304: Topics: Issues in National Security

Melvyn Levitsky

This course concentrates on the foreign policy aspects of U.S. National Security. We will study the Cold War preface to current policy as well as broad issues of substance and process affecting national security...

PUBPOL 475.305

PUBPOL 475.305: Topics: Lessons from the Japanese Economy

Joshua Hausman

This course will provide an overview of recent Japanese economic history and the current state of the Japanese economy. We will consider what economic policymakers around the world can learn from...

PUBPOL 477

PUBPOL 477: Introduction to R for Public Policy

Alton Worthington

This course is an introduction to programming in the R statistical language. R is a flexible, open-source statistics platform which has gained broad adoption in a variety of...

PUBPOL 480

PUBPOL 480: Global Engagement Seminar: Costa Rica

Susan Collins

This advanced seminar challenges public policy majors to consider how policy issues are framed and addressed in a non-US...

PUBPOL 495

PUBPOL 495.001: Policy Seminar: Economic Growth, Depression, & Inequality: Lessons from 20th Century Economic History

Joshua Hausman

The combination of slow economic growth and rising inequality has meant that the material living standards of the median American household have improved only slowly since the early...

PUBPOL 495

PUBPOL 495.002: Policy Seminar: Dangerous Peacemaking: Managing Political Transitions, Social Justice and Democratic Systems

Yazier Henry

The international law of individual accountability for human rights atrocities, which emerged after World War II, has evolved rapidly since the...

PUBPOL 495

PUBPOL 495.003: Policy Seminar: The U.S. Supreme Court: Cases, Analysis, & Policy

Valenta Kabo

How do the judges on the Supreme Court make their decisions? What were the real issues in cases such as Roe v. Wade, and is it possible that the Court would overturn this decision? How do judges in different eras decided cases...

PUBPOL 495

PUBPOL 495.004: Policy Seminar: Immigration Policy

Ann Chih Lin

Nearly fifty-five years ago, the 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act changed the racial and ethnic composition of...

PUBPOL 478

PUBPOL 478: Applied Policy Seminar

Brian Jacob

The Applied Policy Seminar (APS) is an opportunity for students to conduct a faculty-supervised consulting project for a public, private, or non-profit sector policy organization at the local, state, national or international...

PUBPOL 488

PUBPOL 488: Project Skills Workshop

Brian Jacob

This is a professional skills workshop that will be required for students enrolled in the Applied Policy Seminar (APS, PP478). To be offered each semester, concurrent with the...

PUBPOL 201

PUBPOL 201.001: Systematic Thinking

Paul Courant

The main idea that we want to get across is implicit in the title: Systematic thinking - largely from the social sciences, but with the application of scientific methods and knowledge more generally - can make a significant difference in the way...

PUBPOL 210

PUBPOL 210.001: Health & Society

This course is intended to serve as an introduction to the major issues of health and health care in the United States – what they are, what determines them, and how they can be altered. In so doing, the course surveys the field of public...

PUBPOL 312

PUBPOL 312.001: Environment Politics & Policy

Barry Rabe

This course is an advanced offering on environmental politics and the environmental policy-making...

PUBPOL 320

PUBPOL 320.001: Politics & Public Policy

This course prepares students to understand the political and institutional environment within which public policy is formulated and...

PUBPOL 330

PUBPOL 330.001: Microeconomics

Betsey Stevenson

This is a core course restricted to Ford School students...

PUBPOL 330

PUBPOL 330.002: Microeconomics

Betsey Stevenson

This is a core course restricted to Ford School students...

PUBPOL 422

PUBPOL 422.001: Congress and State Legislatures

John Schwarz

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

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