Course catalog

The Law School's Problem Solving Initiative classes are open to all U-M graduate and professional students.

This is a core course restricted to Ford School students only. Registration is by permission only.

This course reviews the international political and legal framework established over the past fifty years to protect human rights.

Students will understand how to design, execute, and interpret the results from advanced estimation techniques beyond the standard OLS model.

It's been decades since the United States has faced such a critical mix of foreign policy challenges as today.

Instructor: Ambassador Daniel L. Shields

This is a core course restricted to Ford School students only. Registration is by permission only.

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 fields.

The events of 6 January 2021 at the US Capitol served as a stark example of the evolving threat of domestic violent extremism in the United States. This threat has ebbed and flowed in intensity over the past several decades, with some experts sugg

The events of 6 January 2021 at the US Capitol served as a stark example of the evolving threat of domestic violent extremism in the United States. This threat has ebbed and flowed in intensity over the past several decades, with some experts sugg

The class meets once a week and is open only to MPA students.

The African continent is often presented by the media (and many others) as a land of war, famine, disease, corruption, and underdevelopment.

This course provides an introduction to public policy design and analysis using "systematic thinking" from the social sciences and humanities, with the application of scientific methods and knowledge more generally.

Strategic Public Policy Consulting (SPPC) 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 level.

Co-taught with Dr. Carl Landwehr, Lead Research Scientist, Cyber Security Policy & Research Institute, George Washington University.

Co-taught with Dr. Carl Landwehr, Lead Research Scientist, Cyber Security Policy & Research Institute, George Washington University.

The class meets once a week and is open only to MPA students.

When designing new policies or programs, or adapting existing policies at the local level, engaging the public can enable governments to be more targeted to local needs, more effective within a local context, and more

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

This course seeks to make students sensitive to and articulate about the ways in which moral and political values come into play in the American policy process, particularly as they affect non-elected public officials who work in a world shaped by

This is a required course open only to current Ford School BA students.

Course Objectives:

Total global fintech investment increased from $50.8 billion in 2017 to a full $111.8 billion in 2018, according to KPMG's The Pulse of Fintech, and there are no signs that growth in this sector will slow down.

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

This course will explore the legal enforcement of those human rights that are fundamental and are the birthright of all human beings.

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

This course seeks to make students sensitive to and articulate about the ways in which moral and political values come into play in the American policy process, particularly as they affect non-elected public officials who work in a world shaped by

*Note: Instructor consent required*