Course catalog

Course Listing

Search Course Catalog

Expand All | Collapse All

Clear All Filters

Instructor

PUBPOL 626

The History and Future of Detroit

Fall 2015

U-M Class#:

23922

Credit Hours:

Instructor:

Walter Reynolds Farley

Course Section:

001

Days:

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 626

The History and Future of Detroit

Fall 2015

U-M Class#:

23922

Credit Hours:

Instructor:

Walter Reynolds Farley

Course Section:

001

Days:

W, F

Time:

8:30am - 10:00am

Details

Syllabus

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 2015

U-M Class#:

21293

Credit Hours:

Instructor:

Susan Dynarski

Course Section:

001

Days:

M, W

Time:

1:00pm - 2:30pm

Details

Syllabus

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 647

Data Analysis Using Excel I

Fall 2015

U-M Class#:

30483

Credit Hours:

1.5

Instructor:

Jonathan Hanson

Course Section:

001

Days:

Time:

9:00am - 12:00pm

Details

Description:

This course will provide students with a practical hands-on introduction to data analysis using Microsoft Excel. Given the widespread usage of Microsoft Excel in the workplace, the aim of the course...

PUBPOL 647

Data Analysis Using Excel I

Fall 2015

U-M Class#:

Credit Hours:

1.5

Instructor:

Jonathan Hanson

Course Section:

Days:

Time:

Details

Syllabus

Description:

PUBPOL 648

Data Analysis Using Excel II

Fall 2015

U-M Class#:

Credit Hours:

1.5

Instructor:

Jonathan Hanson

Course Section:

Days:

Time:

Details

Syllabus

Description:

This course will provide students with a practical hands-on instruction in advanced data analysis techniques using Microsoft Excel. Given the widespread usage of Microsoft Excel in the workplace, the...

PUBPOL 682

Leadership & Communication in State-level Policy Making

Fall 2015

U-M Class#:

23924

Credit Hours:

Instructor:

Craig Ruff

Course Section:

001

Days:

Time:

6:00pm - 9:00pm

Details

Syllabus

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 2015

U-M Class#:

21294

Credit Hours:

Instructor:

Gerald Hills

Course Section:

001

Days:

Time:

5:30pm - 8:30pm

Details

Syllabus

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 688

Intellectual Property and Information Law

Fall 2015

U-M Class#:

23768

Credit Hours:

Instructor:

Course Section:

001

Days:

Time:

8:30am - 11:30am

Details

Description:

This course would explore related and sometimes competing legal and policy frameworks for the development and dissemination of ideas and expression in the Information Age. The ways in which...

PUBPOL 692

Thinking about Crime

Fall 2015

U-M Class#:

25227

Credit Hours:

Instructor:

David Thacher

Course Section:

001

Days:

M, W

Time:

10:00am - 11:30am

Details

Syllabus

Description:

As Chief of the New York City Police Department, William Bratton was fond of saying that the crime rate has the same meaning for a police department as profits have for a business--that the crime...

PUBPOL 717

Social Activism, Democracy, and Globalization from the Perspective of the Global South

Fall 2015

U-M Class#:

20513

Credit Hours:

Instructor:

Yazier Henry

Course Section:

001

Days:

Time:

4:00pm - 7:00pm

Details

Description:

How are the inherent and intersecting relations of power including inherent structures of dominance related to the experience of violence, oppression and resistance textured into the context of...

PUBPOL 735

Professional Development

Fall 2015

U-M Class#:

19820

Credit Hours:

Instructor:

Surry Scheerer

Course Section:

001

Days:

Time:

8:30am - 2:30pm

Details

Syllabus

Description:

Researchers who study successful people agree on the following: Your IQ and cognitive intelligence are at best moderate predictors of your success in life. In other words, they are necessary but...

PUBPOL 736

Poverty & Inequality

Fall 2015

U-M Class#:

21913

Credit Hours:

Instructor:

Mary Corcoran

Course Section:

001

Days:

Time:

4:00pm - 6:00pm

Details

Syllabus

Description:

This course analyzes the conditions and causes of poverty within the United States and the variety of economic, social, and political responses to it. The first part of the course explores the...

PUBPOL 750

Topics: Great Depression to the Great Recession

Fall 2015

U-M Class#:

31437

Credit Hours:

Instructor:

Joshua Hausman

Course Section:

007

Days:

M, W

Time:

1:00pm - 2:30pm

Details

Syllabus

Description:

Since the 2008 financial crisis, developed countries have suffered high unemployment and slow growth. What are options for policymakers in this environment? This course will analyze central issues in...

PUBPOL 750

Topics: Federal Budget Process

Fall 2015

U-M Class#:

30490

Credit Hours:

1.5

Instructor:

Betsey Stevenson

Course Section:

004

Days:

Tu, Th

Time:

1:00pm - 2:30pm

Details

Description:

Description tbd

PUBPOL 750

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

Fall 2015

U-M Class#:

27096

Credit Hours:

1.5

Instructor:

Yazier Henry

Course Section:

001

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...

PUBPOL 750

Topics: International Politics of Poverty

Fall 2015

U-M Class#:

30716

Credit Hours:

1.5

Instructor:

Susan Waltz

Course Section:

006

Days:

Tu, Th

Time:

1:00pm - 2:30pm

Details

Description:

This course will cover controversies and conundrums in international development policy. Topics may include political dynamics of international decisions about development, international aid, the MDG...

PUBPOL 750

Topics: Thinking Analytically for Policy and Decision

Fall 2015

U-M Class#:

27099

Credit Hours:

Instructor:

Carl Simon

Course Section:

005

Days:

M, W

Time:

10:00am - 11:30am

Details

Description:

This course presents a framework for decision-making in public policy. Students will develop: 1) the ability to formulate quantitative models from real world situations that arise frequently in the...

PUBPOL 750

Topics: Contemporary Public Policy Formation

Fall 2015

U-M Class#:

30496

Credit Hours:

Instructor:

Course Section:

011

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...

PUBPOL 750

Topics: Social Policy Making Through the Executive Branch

Fall 2015

U-M Class#:

21914

Credit Hours:

1.5

Instructor:

Betsey Stevenson

Course Section:

003

Days:

Tu, Th

Time:

10:00am - 11:30am

Details

Description:

Description tbd

PUBPOL 750

Special Topics

Fall 2015

U-M Class#:

27110

Credit Hours:

Instructor:

Valenta Kabo

Course Section:

008

Days:

M, W

Time:

1:00pm - 2:30pm

Details

Description:

PUBPOL 750

Topics: Future of the American Research University

Fall 2015

U-M Class#:

30481

Credit Hours:

Instructor:

James Duderstadt

Course Section:

002

Days:

Time:

5:00pm - 6:30pm

Details

Description:

Although the American research university serves as a key source of basic research, advanced education, and infrastructure critical to the nation's welfare, it faces many challenges such as shifting...

PubPol 750.004

Topics: Federal Budget Process

Fall 2015

U-M Class#:

30490

Credit Hours:

1.5

Instructor:

Betsey Stevenson

Course Section:

004

Days:

Tu, Th

Time:

1:00pm - 2:30pm

Details

Description:

PubPol 750.007

Topics: Great Depression to the Great Recession

Fall 2015

U-M Class#:

Credit Hours:

Instructor:

Joshua Hausman

Course Section:

007

Days:

M, W

Time:

1:00pm - 2:30am

Details

Description:

Since the 2008 financial crisis, most developed countries have suffered high unemployment and slow growth. What are options for policymakers in this environment? This course will analyze central...

PUBPOL 750.008

Comparative Law and Public Policy

Fall 2015

U-M Class#:

Credit Hours:

Instructor:

Valenta Kabo

Course Section:

Days:

M, W

Time:

1:00pm - 2:30pm

Details

Description:

Because law is one of the means through which policies are enacted, understanding the different structures of legal systems is a necessary for understanding policy promulgation in different country-...

PUBPOL 751

Chinese Foreign Policy

Fall 2015

U-M Class#:

17671

Credit Hours:

1.5

Instructor:

Yunhua Liu

Course Section:

001

Days:

Time:

9:00am - 12:00pm

Details

Description:

This part of the course introduces students to continuity and change in China's foreign policy, focusing on the reform era. We begin with theoretical and analytical debates about making sense of...

PUBPOL 751

China's Economic Reforms

Fall 2015

U-M Class#:

17672

Credit Hours:

1.5

Instructor:

Yunhua Liu

Course Section:

002

Days:

Time:

9:00am - 12:00pm

Details

Syllabus

Description:

China's reform and opening-up has been a great event in the world in the past more than two decades. Since 1978, China has experienced a profound and overall economic reform and the economy has...

PUBPOL 778

Project Skills Workshop

Fall 2015

U-M Class#:

22123

Credit Hours:

Instructor:

Elisabeth Gerber

Course Section:

001

Days:

Time:

1:00pm - 2:30pm

Details

Syllabus

Description:

This is a professional skills workshop that will be required for students enrolled in the Applied Policy Seminar (APS, PP578) and open to other MPP/ Master's student. To be offered each semester,...

PUBPOL 810

PhD Policy Research Seminar

Fall 2015

U-M Class#:

17468

Credit Hours:

Instructor:

Elisabeth Gerber

Course Section:

001

Days:

Time:

11:30am - 1:00pm

Details

Syllabus

Description:

A bi-weekly one-credit seminar that introduces students to applied policy research. For students in the Ford School Joint Ph.D. program.

PUBPOL 821

Advanced Program Evaluation

Fall 2015

U-M Class#:

25448

Credit Hours:

Instructor:

John DiNardo

Course Section:

001

Days:

M, W

Time:

1:00pm - 2:30pm

Details

Description:

Public Policy 821 is intended as a complement (and not a substitute) for Applied Econometrics 675 and similar courses in other schools and departments. Students should have basic proficiency in STATA...

PUBPOL 830

Immersion in Research

Fall 2015

U-M Class#:

23550

Credit Hours:

Instructor:

Brian Jacob

Course Section:

001

Days:

Time:

1:00am - 1:00am

Details

Description:

This course is designed to immerse students in a major research project of their own design. By the end of the two-semester course, students will be required to produce a polished paper, which can...

PUBPOL 423

Political Campaign Strategies and Tactics

Winter 2015

U-M Class#:

27731

Credit Hours:

Instructor:

Gerald Hills

Course Section:

001

Days:

Time:

5:30pm - 8:30pm

Details

Syllabus

Description:

PUBPOL 423-DISCUSSION

Political Campaign Strategies and Tactics

Winter 2015

U-M Class#:

28372

Credit Hours:

Instructor:

Course Section:

003

Days:

Time:

10:00am - 11:00am

Details

Description:

PUBPOL 423-DISCUSSION

Political Campaign Strategies and Tactics

Winter 2015

U-M Class#:

28371

Credit Hours:

Instructor:

Course Section:

002

Days:

Time:

11:00am - 12:00pm

Details

Description:

PUBPOL 456

Local Government, Opportunity for Activism

Winter 2015

U-M Class#:

24559

Credit Hours:

Instructor:

John Hieftje

Course Section:

001

Days:

M, W

Time:

1:00pm - 2:30pm

Details

Syllabus

Description:

What goes on in city government is in many ways more important to our lives than what happens in Washington. This course goes beyond the structure and theory of municipal government to look at how...

PubPol 466

Topics: The History and Future of Detroit

Winter 2015

U-M Class#:

26059

Credit Hours:

Instructor:

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 the auto industry, the emergence of the blue collar middle class and development of the New Deal. Now it is the most...

PUBPOL 475.002

Topics: The Politics of Identity

Winter 2015

U-M Class#:

24892

Credit Hours:

Instructor:

Mara Ostfeld

Course Section:

002

Days:

Tu, Th

Time:

10:00am - 11:30am

Details

Syllabus

Description:

Race, gender, religion, sexuality and other social identities permeate the development and administration of American public policy. These identities are just as powerful of a tool in efforts to...

PubPol 475.003

Topics: Utopianism and Public Policy

Winter 2015

U-M Class#:

25824

Credit Hours:

Instructor:

David Morse

Course Section:

003

Days:

Tu, Th

Time:

1:00pm - 2:30pm

Details

Syllabus

Description:

“Utopia” in Greek means both “good place” and “no place”—a paradise existing only in our imaginations. But no matter how theoretical or fanciful utopias may be, people still try to implement them,...

PUBPOL 475.004

Topics: Philanthropic Foundations in the Public Arena

Winter 2015

U-M Class#:

30919

Credit Hours:

Instructor:

Megan Tompkins-Stange

Course Section:

004

Days:

Time:

10:00am - 1:00pm

Details

Syllabus

Description:

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...

PUBPOL 481/PHYSICS 481

Physics & National Science Policy

Winter 2015

U-M Class#:

21816

Credit Hours:

Instructor:

Course Section:

001

Days:

Tu, Th

Time:

8:30am - 10:00am

Details

Syllabus

Description:

This course 1) addresses some of the contemporary issues affecting the environment in which physics education and research take place, and 2) reviews current technical and policy challenges facing...

Quicklinks

Latest Tweets

RT @ICPSRSummer: The @UMich @fordschool is hosting an info session for 1st session participants! RSVP by this Wed! https://t.co/EYOC9QUwkJ — 7 hours 13 min ago
RT @michiganalumni: The #UMich200 Summer Festival begins today with a colloquium featuring @DrMarkSchlissel and other education leaders… https://t.co/8LyNqxzffM — 11 hours 57 min ago
RT @ArmenHratchian: Honor to rep @MaxwellSU & drop a little career advice to @ppiaprogram/@fordschool. Advice to employers... hire these brilliant minds #talent — 13 hours 43 min ago