Course catalog

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 580

Values & Ethics

Fall 2016

U-M Class#:

11585

Credit Hours:

Instructor:

David Thacher

Course Section:

001

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

Fall 2016

U-M Class#:

30712

Credit Hours:

Instructor:

Paula Lantz

Course Section:

001

Days:

M, W

Time:

8:30am - 10:00am

Details

The History and Future of Detroit

Description:

PUBPOL 626

Fall 2016

U-M Class#:

22957

Credit Hours:

Instructor:

Walter Reynolds Farley

Course Section:

001

Days:

W, F

Time:

8:30am - 10:00am

Details

Quantitative Methods of Program Evaluation

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

Fall 2016

U-M Class#:

20713

Credit Hours:

Instructor:

Kevin Stange

Course Section:

001

Days:

Tu, Th

Time:

2:30pm - 4:00pm

Details

Human Rights & International Policy

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 675

Fall 2016

U-M Class#:

30304

Credit Hours:

Instructor:

Susan Waltz

Course Section:

001

Days:

Tu, Th

Time:

4:00pm - 5:30pm

Details

Description:

This course reviews the international political and legal framework established over the past fifty years to protect human rights. The varying concerns and approaches of states, inter-governmental...

PUBPOL 682

Leadership & Communication in State-level Policy Making

Fall 2016

U-M Class#:

22958

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 2016

U-M Class#:

20714

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 712

Fall 2016

U-M Class#:

30145

Credit Hours:

Instructor:

Brian Jacob

Course Section:

001

Days:

M, W

Time:

2:30pm - 4:00pm

Details

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

Description:

This course focuses on rigorous evaluation of policies and interventions intended to support children's early learning and success in K-12. Evaluations will be discussed in the context of the current...

PUBPOL 717

Fall 2016

U-M Class#:

20015

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 736

Poverty & Inequality

Fall 2016

U-M Class#:

21221

Credit Hours:

Instructor:

Natasha Pilkauskas

Course Section:

001

Days:

Tu, Th

Time:

10:00am - 11:30am

Details

Economics of the Public Sector

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...

PUBPOL 744

Fall 2016

U-M Class#:

30264

Credit Hours:

Instructor:

Betsey Stevenson

Course Section:

001

Days:

M, W

Time:

1:00pm - 2:30pm

Details

Description:

This is a course on how economists think about government revenue and government expenditures — how governments raise and spend public money. Public Finance is a subfield of microeconomics. In the...

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

Fall 2016

U-M Class#:

27550

Credit Hours:

Instructor:

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...

Topics: Budget Literacy for Mission Driven Orgs

Fall 2016

U-M Class#:

21222

Credit Hours:

1.5

Instructor:

Denise Thal

Course Section:

506

Days:

Time:

4:30pm - 6:00pm

Details

Description:

This course is designed to give students an understanding of how budgeting and financial planning are used in the management of organizations for which money is the means to the end, but not the end...

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

Fall 2016

U-M Class#:

25171

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...

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

Fall 2016

U-M Class#:

25172

Credit Hours:

1.5

Instructor:

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...

Imagining the Global Environment: History, Science, Policy

Fall 2016

U-M Class#:

33420

Credit Hours:

Instructor:

Course Section:

310

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: Psychology of Climate Change

Fall 2016

U-M Class#:

27998

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

Fall 2016

U-M Class#:

27327

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,...

Global Financial Markets, Crises, and Policies

Fall 2016

U-M Class#:

33046

Credit Hours:

Instructor:

Kathryn Dominguez

Course Section:

309

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: Contemporary Public Policy Formation

Fall 2016

U-M Class#:

27336

Credit Hours:

Instructor:

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...

PUBPOL 763

Global Issues: Drugs, Crime and Terrorism

Fall 2016

U-M Class#:

30306

Credit Hours:

Instructor:

Melvyn Levitsky

Course Section:

001

Days:

M, W

Time:

4:00pm - 5:30pm

Details

Description:

Students will explore the global issues of illegal drugs, and international drug trafficking, crime and terrorism. Course content emphasizes the study of organizations and networks, policy...

PUBPOL 778

Project Skills Workshop

Fall 2016

U-M Class#:

21403

Credit Hours:

Instructor:

Elisabeth Gerber

Course Section:

001

Days:

Time:

1:00pm - 2:30pm

Details

PhD Policy Research Seminar

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

Fall 2016

U-M Class#:

17140

Credit Hours:

Instructor:

Mary Corcoran

Course Section:

001

Days:

Time:

12:00pm - 1:30pm

Details

Description:

A bi-weekly one-credit seminar that introduces students to applied policy research. For students in the Ford School Joint Ph.D. program. 9/9: PhD Welcome Lunch (Public Policy 810 students will meet...

PUBPOL 830

Immersion in Research

Fall 2016

U-M Class#:

22669

Credit Hours:

Instructor:

Brian Jacob

Course Section:

001

Days:

Time:

11:30am - 1:00pm

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 413

Professional Development

Winter 2016

U-M Class#:

30071

Credit Hours:

Instructor:

Surry Scheerer

Course Section:

001

Days:

Time:

8:30am - 2:30pm

Details

Description:

The goal of this course is to enhance the students' ability to bring about the individual and organizational changes they want to see. This course begins by addressing (1) what effective managers...

PUBPOL 423

Political Campaign Strategy and Tactics

Winter 2016

U-M Class#:

25113

Credit Hours:

Instructor:

Gerald Hills

Course Section:

001

Days:

Time:

5:30pm - 8:30pm

Details

Description:

PUBPOL 456

Local Government, Opportunity for Activism

Winter 2016

U-M Class#:

23060

Credit Hours:

Instructor:

Course Section:

001

Days:

M, W

Time:

1:00pm - 2:30pm

Details

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 2016

U-M Class#:

24124

Credit Hours:

Instructor:

Walter Reynolds Farley

Course Section:

001

Days:

M, W

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: Philanthropic Foundations

Winter 2016

U-M Class#:

30386

Credit Hours:

Instructor:

Megan Tompkins-Stange

Course Section:

009

Days:

Time:

8:30am - 11:30am

Details

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...

Topics: Oil & Gas Policy in the US

Winter 2016

U-M Class#:

30385

Credit Hours:

Instructor:

Daniel Raimi

Course Section:

008

Days:

Tu, Th

Time:

1:00pm - 2:30pm

Details

Description:

This course will examine how federal, state, and local politics have affected production and consumption over time. We will look at key energy policy questions facing the country, including: how oil...

Topics: Child & Family Policy

Winter 2016

U-M Class#:

30384

Credit Hours:

Instructor:

Natasha Pilkauskas

Course Section:

007

Days:

M, W

Time:

10:00am - 11:30am

Details

Description:

The goal of the course is to give students an overview of the US social policy landscape as it relates to children and low-income families. We will consider the strengths and weaknesses of policies...

Topics: Identity & Bias

Winter 2016

U-M Class#:

27306

Credit Hours:

Instructor:

Course Section:

006

Days:

M, W

Time:

1:00pm - 2:30pm

Details

Description:

This course is a seminar on how our identities shape and are shaped by political institutions, with a particular emphasis placed on how this interplay affects the distribution of social, political...

Topics: Michigan Politics & Policy

Winter 2016

U-M Class#:

27267

Credit Hours:

Instructor:

Course Section:

004

Days:

M, W

Time:

11:30am - 1:00pm

Details

Description:

This course is designed to familiarize you 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 Michigan...

Topics: Economics of Energy & Environmental Policy

Winter 2016

U-M Class#:

23968

Credit Hours:

Instructor:

Catherine Hausman

Course Section:

003

Days:

M, W

Time:

1:00pm - 2:30pm

Details

Description:

This course focuses on the economics of energy and environmental regulations in the United States. It is designed to give students practical experience in making connections between intermediate...

Toipcs: Survey of U.S. Foreign Policy in 12 Episodes

Winter 2016

U-M Class#:

23339

Credit Hours:

Instructor:

Course Section:

002

Days:

M, W

Time:

10:00am - 11:30am

Details

Description:

A one semester course to focus on major events, examining how the political and economic factors, the players and the context combined to set precedents for the United States in the world. We will...

Topics: Social Policy Making through the Executive Branch

Winter 2016

U-M Class#:

27313

Credit Hours:

1.5

Instructor:

Betsey Stevenson

Course Section:

011

Days:

Tu, Th

Time:

10:00am - 11:30am

Details

Description: