Course catalog

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 and historical landscape.

Greenhouse gas emissions associated with energy use are the leading cause of global climate change, and they are growing.

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.

In this course, students will develop the necessary skills to conceptualize, plan, and execute interview-based projects.

Governments increasingly use algorithms (such as machine learning predictions) as a central tool to distribute resources and make important decisions.

In today's complex and dynamic world, leadership is in demand at all levels of every organization.

Instructor: Bill Bynum, Hope Credit Union Enterprise Corporation

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.

Budgeting and financial planning impacts nearly all aspects of organizational life in the public service arena.

This course, structured as a seminar and writing workshop, intensively develops students' persuasive writing and critical reading skills through abundant practice and feedback.

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

Federal election spending from all sources has doubled over the last twenty years and the 2018 election continued the trend.

This course concentrates on the foreign policy aspects of U.S. National Security. We will study the Cold War preface to current policy as well as broad issues of substance and process affecting national security policy.

As a matter of constitutional design, authority over public organizations in the U.S.

Throughout history, financial services has played a vital role in the global economy, and similarly, technology has been an integral part of financial services.

This is a core course restricted to Ford School students 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.

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.

This is a core course open only to Ford School juniors.

Course Objectives:

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 politics and policy making?

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

Please visit https://problemsolving.law.umich.edu/ for information on how to register.

This course can be taken in-person or remotely online.

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.

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.

*Note: Instructor consent required*

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.

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

Please visit https://problemsolving.law.umich.edu/ for information on how to register.

This course is designed to familiarize students with core skills in data access, manipulation, analysis, and presentation using Excel (and Excel-like alternatives).