Course catalog

The aim of this lecture course is to introduce students to the manner in which science and technology issues both shape and are shaped by public policy.

his course will examine how the U.S. and other international actors seek to help pacify, stabilize, and rebuild societies embroiled or emerging from war.

This course will investigate the various means, both direct and indirect, through which the mass media and public opinion can influence the foreign policy making process.

This course seeks to deepen students’ understanding of the form and function of cities through the use of economic models and use those models to understand the likely effects of policies often applied to urban areas across several contexts (zonin

This course will deal primarily with the Legislative Branch of Government at both the State and Federal levels. Legislative strategies and the possible outcomes of those strategies will be considered.

This course explores the use of experiments and quasi-experiments in education research.

This course will examine the policy processes that 1) promote scientific research and innovation and 2) facilitate the movement of innovations out of the laboratory into private industry and the public.

In this course the students will (a) master key themes in leadership development and policy making, (b) increase their own leadership capacities through reflection, feedback and practice and (c) evaluate the leadership record of an “extraordinary”

Policy seminars are open only to undergraduates enrolled in the Ford School. These small, interdisciplinary courses will focus on particular public policy issues as reflected in the title of the course.

Policy seminars are open only to undergraduates enrolled in the Ford School. These small, interdisciplinary courses will focus on particular public policy issues as reflected in the title of the course.

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

This course teaches students the basic tools of macroeconomics and how to apply them to real world economic policy.

This course aims to teach students how to use and conduct benefit-cost analysis. To do this, students must possess the ability to model economic behavior in the real world.

This course will consider the capacity of North American political institutions to shape effective environmental protection policies, devoting primary emphasis to the United States but also examining Canada and Mexico.

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 policy issues using data from the U.S.

An analysis, from the business and government policy perspectives, of some of the largest government programs that shape the economic environment.

This course examines a number of popular approaches to education reform, using an economic lens to understand the theoretical rationale and potential impact of each.

As it exposes students to the landscape of science and technology policymaking in the US and abroad, this course introduces theories and methodologies for science and technology policy analysis, with literature drawn from a range of disciplines, i

The nonprofit sector has emerged as one of the cornerstones of American society, and yet remains very much a work in progress.

This course developed from an initiative of the International Policy Students Association (IPSA) at the Ford School of Public Policy. It will be in two parts.

This course examines the interaction of politics and policymaking at the state level.

During the twentieth century, the U.S. both saw the development of a social welfare system to serve nonelderly families and a subsequent dramatic overhaul of the cash welfare part of that system.

The aim of this course is to introduce students to topical issues in science and technology policy. The course will meet weekly for a formal seminar.

As one of the hottest areas of scientific and technological development today, genetics and biotechnology are raising a variety of difficult and controversial policy questions.

Students will critically examine successes and failures in health care reform in the United States over the last century.

This course will explore the global issues of illegal drugs, crime and terrorism. Course content emphasizes policy options, formulation and implementation, and the tools and skills needed to produce effective recommendations for decision making.

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

Over the past several decades, the nonprofit sector has grown dramatically in wealth, size, and prominence.

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 w

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