Course catalog

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 course in facilitating complex and difficult dialogic moments of engagement in the social, professional and institutional spheres of the public arena.

**Course meets: 
February 10,12,17,19; 
Wednesdays 4:00-6:00pm, 
Fridays 10:00-12:00pm**

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

Taught by John Hieftje, former Mayor of Ann Arbor. 

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

Once a policy is passed or a project selected, the hard work of implementation begins.

This course surveys what we do and don't know about economic growth and poverty alleviation in developing countries. We begin by discussing alternative perspectives on the goals of development.

MPA Capstone

Open only to MPA students.

This is a course in facilitating complex and difficult dialogic moments of engagement in the social, professional and institutional spheres of the public arena.

The main objectives of this course are to enhance your ability to think analytically and write clearly about managerial challenges.

Class meets 01/19/2021 - 03/05/2021

PUBPOL 495 (Policy Seminar) is for students currently enrolled in the Public Policy Undergraduate Program only, no exceptions. Enrollment is by permission only.

Instructors: Phyllis Meadows, Senior Fellow, Health, The Kresge Foundation and Marianne Udow-Phillips, Lecturer of Public Policy, Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy; Executive Director, Center for Health and Research Transformation (CHRT).

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

Through the use of case studies, we will explore the history and social conditions that have spurred the call for reparations in the United States.

This course will introduce you to the art and science of political campaigning.

The main objectives of this course are to enhance your ability to think analytically and write clearly about managerial challenges.

Open to PhD students only.

PUBPOL 495 (Policy Seminar) is for students currently enrolled in the Public Policy Undergraduate Program only, no exceptions. Enrollment is by permission only.

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

Course meets: 
March 10,12,17,19; 
Wednesdays 4:00-6:00pm, 
Fridays 10:00-12:00pm

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

This course will examine issues of performance measurement and management in the context of public sector agencies in the United States.

Open to PhD students only.

PUBPOL 495 (Policy Seminar) is for students currently enrolled in the Public Policy Undergraduate Program only, no exceptions. Enrollment is by permission only.

IPE 2021 Scenario:  Defining “Climate Refugee”

This course will provide students with fundamental principles of and practical experience in presenting data in a visual form for communication and analysis.

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.