Course catalog

Policy Seminar: History of Public Policy

Fall 2017

U-M Class#:

19734

Credit Hours:

Instructor:

Joy Rohde

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.

Policy Seminar: Apology, Reconcile, Reparations & PP

Fall 2017

U-M Class#:

19180

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...

Policy Seminar: Poverty, Inequality, & Public Policy

Fall 2017

U-M Class#:

31505

Credit Hours:

Instructor:

Natasha Pilkauskas

Course Section:

005

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.

Policy Seminar: Crime, Drugs, & Terrorism

Fall 2017

U-M Class#:

26287

Credit Hours:

Instructor:

Melvyn Levitsky

Course Section:

004

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. Students will explore the global issues of illegal drugs, and international drug trafficking, crime and terrorism...

Policy Seminar: Irrational Actors: Psychological Approaches to Decision Making

Fall 2017

U-M Class#:

19735

Credit Hours:

Instructor:

Kaitlin Raimi

Course Section:

003

Days:

M, W

Time:

2:30pm - 4:00pm

Details

Senior Seminar in Applied Public Policy

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...

PUBPOL 499

Fall 2017

U-M Class#:

27978

Credit Hours:

Instructor:

Janet Weiss

Course Section:

001

Days:

Time:

4:00pm - 7:00pm

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 2017

U-M Class#:

24360

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 513

Calculus

Fall 2017

U-M Class#:

11531

Credit Hours:

Instructor:

Carl Simon

Course Section:

001

Days:

M, W

Time:

1:00pm - 2:30pm

Details

Description:

This course is designed specifically to provide students in all degree programs at the Ford School with the fundamental mathematical tools necessary for their subsequent coursework. The course covers...

PUBPOL 519

Sus Energy Sys

Fall 2017

U-M Class#:

11532

Credit Hours:

Instructor:

Course Section:

001

Days:

Tu, Th

Time:

2:30pm - 4:00pm

Details

Description:

Fall 2017

U-M Class#:

22764

Credit Hours:

0.5

Instructor:

Course Section:

001

Days:

Time:

11:30am - 1:00pm

Details

Description:

This course teaches the norms of policy writing to 1st year policy students. Through small workshops, students will analyze approaches to different types of policy writing. They will produce a good...

Fall 2017

U-M Class#:

23742

Credit Hours:

0.5

Instructor:

Course Section:

009

Days:

Time:

4:00pm - 5:30pm

Details

Description:

Fall 2017

U-M Class#:

22771

Credit Hours:

0.5

Instructor:

Course Section:

008

Days:

Time:

2:30pm - 4:00pm

Details

Description:

Fall 2017

U-M Class#:

22770

Credit Hours:

0.5

Instructor:

Course Section:

007

Days:

Time:

2:30pm - 4:00pm

Details

Description:

Fall 2017

U-M Class#:

22769

Credit Hours:

0.5

Instructor:

Course Section:

006

Days:

Time:

2:30pm - 4:00pm

Details

Description:

Fall 2017

U-M Class#:

22768

Credit Hours:

0.5

Instructor:

Course Section:

005

Days:

Time:

2:30pm - 4:00pm

Details

Description:

Fall 2017

U-M Class#:

22767

Credit Hours:

0.5

Instructor:

Course Section:

004

Days:

Time:

11:30am - 1:00pm

Details

Description:

Fall 2017

U-M Class#:

24565

Credit Hours:

0.5

Instructor:

Course Section:

012

Days:

Time:

11:30am - 1:00pm

Details

Description:

Fall 2017

U-M Class#:

22766

Credit Hours:

0.5

Instructor:

Course Section:

003

Days:

Time:

11:30am - 1:00pm

Details

Description:

Fall 2017

U-M Class#:

23744

Credit Hours:

0.5

Instructor:

Course Section:

011

Days:

Time:

11:30am - 1:00pm

Details

Description:

Fall 2017

U-M Class#:

22765

Credit Hours:

0.5

Instructor:

Course Section:

002

Days:

Time:

11:30am - 1:00pm

Details

Description:

Fall 2017

U-M Class#:

23743

Credit Hours:

0.5

Instructor:

International Financial Policy

Course Section:

010

Days:

Time:

4:00pm - 5:30pm

Details

Description:

PUBPOL 529

Statistics

Fall 2017

U-M Class#:

11533

Credit Hours:

Instructor:

Jonathan Hanson

Course Section:

001

Days:

Tu, Th

Time:

2:30pm - 4:00pm

Details

Description:

This course covers descriptive statistics, probability theory, probability distributions (normal, binomial, Poisson, exponential), sampling distributions, confidence intervals, and hypothesis testing...

PUBPOL 542

Fall 2017

U-M Class#:

31652

Credit Hours:

Instructor:

Kathryn Dominguez

Course Section:

001

Days:

Tu, Th

Time:

1:00pm - 2:30pm

Details

Practicum in Data Analysis Using STATA

Description:

This course provides an overview of international financial economics, developing analytic tools and concepts that can be used to analyze world economic policy debates. It covers the international...

PUBPOL 555

Microeconomics A

Fall 2017

U-M Class#:

11534

Credit Hours:

Instructor:

Justin Wolfers

Course Section:

001

Days:

M, W

Time:

10:00am - 11:30am

Details

Description:

This course begins a two-term sequence designed to provide students with an understanding of the economic implications of public policies and with analytic tools useful in system design and policy...

PUBPOL 567

Fall 2017

U-M Class#:

27799

Credit Hours:

Instructor:

Jonathan Hanson

Course Section:

001

Days:

Time:

9:00am - 12:00pm

Details

Description:

This course will provide students with a practical hands-on instruction in the analysis of survey data using the statistical package Stata. Students will learn how to investigate a variety of public...

PUBPOL 578

Applied Policy Seminar

Fall 2017

U-M Class#:

20318

Credit Hours:

Instructor:

Elisabeth Gerber

Course Section:

001

Days:

M, W

Time:

2:30pm - 4:00pm

Details

Description:

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...

PUBPOL 578

Applied Policy Seminar

Fall 2017

U-M Class#:

29258

Credit Hours:

Instructor:

Course Section:

003

Days:

M, W

Time:

2:30pm - 4:00pm

Details

Description:

PUBPOL 578

Applied Policy Seminar

Fall 2017

U-M Class#:

29217

Credit Hours:

Instructor:

Course Section:

002

Days:

M, W

Time:

1:30pm - 2:30pm

Details

Description:

PUBPOL 580

Values, Ethics, and Public Policy

Fall 2017

U-M Class#:

11535

Credit Hours:

Instructor:

David Thacher

Course Section:

002

Days:

M, W

Time:

1:00pm - 2:30pm

Details

Description:

This is a core course restricted to Ford School students only This course seeks to make students sensitive to and articulate about the ways in which moral and political values come into play in the...

PUBPOL 580

Values, Ethics, and Public Policy

Fall 2017

U-M Class#:

27979

Credit Hours:

Instructor:

Joy Rohde

Course Section:

001

Days:

Tu, Th

Time:

2:30pm - 4:00pm

Details

Higher Education and Public Policy

Description:

PUBPOL 587

Public Management

Fall 2017

U-M Class#:

31658

Credit Hours:

1.5

Instructor:

Megan Tompkins-Stange

Course Section:

102

Days:

Tu, Th

Time:

10:00am - 11:30am

Details

Description:

All sections of public management emphasize common themes such as performance management, strategic planning, and inter-institutional network development. But they will offer distinct differences in...

PUBPOL 587

Public Management

Fall 2017

U-M Class#:

31657

Credit Hours:

1.5

Instructor:

Megan Tompkins-Stange

Course Section:

101

Days:

Tu, Th

Time:

10:00am - 11:30am

Details

Description:

PUBPOL 611

Fall 2017

U-M Class#:

31861

Credit Hours:

Instructor:

Kevin Stange

Course Section:

001

Days:

M, W

Time:

2:30pm - 4:00pm

Details

Description:

Higher Education and Public Policy --- This course will examine the higher education sector from several different angles, but with an emphasis placed on the economic issues. Topics include the...

PUBPOL 626

The History and Future of Detroit

Fall 2017

U-M Class#:

22459

Credit Hours:

Instructor:

Walter Reynolds Farley

Course Section:

001

Days:

Tu, Th

Time:

8:30am - 10:00am

Details

Description:

No metropolis played a greater role in shaping the Twentieth Century world than did Detroit. This course focuses upon the history and future of Detroit emphasizing the private and governmental...

PUBPOL 639

Quantitative Methods of Program Evaluation

Fall 2017

U-M Class#:

20404

Credit Hours:

Instructor:

Brian Jacob

Course Section:

001

Days:

Tu, Th

Time:

8:30am - 10:00am

Details

Description:

This introduction to program evaluation and multiple regression analysis trains students to critically consume empirical studies and conduct their own empirical research. We use education data and...

PUBPOL 682

Leadership & Communication in State-level Policy Making

Fall 2017

U-M Class#:

22460

Credit Hours:

Instructor:

Craig Ruff

Course Section:

001

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...

PUBPOL 683

Elections and Campaigns

Fall 2017

U-M Class#:

20405

Credit Hours:

Instructor:

Gerald Hills

Course Section:

001

Days:

Time:

5:30pm - 8:30pm

Details

Causal Inference in Education Policy Research: Preschool, Elementary and Secondary

Description:

There is no policy without victory. More precisely, well-planned and well-executed political campaigns win elections and make governing possible. Therefore, an understanding of government must first...

PUBPOL 692

Thinking About Crime

Fall 2017

U-M Class#:

31515

Credit Hours:

Instructor:

David Thacher

Course Section:

001

Days:

Tu, Th

Time:

1:00pm - 2:30pm

Details

Description:

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PUBPOL 712

Fall 2017

U-M Class#:

27721

Credit Hours:

Instructor:

Susan Dynarski

Course Section:

001

Days:

M, W

Time:

10:00am - 11:30am

Details