Course catalog

Meets 08/29/22-10/14/22 (Drop/Add Deadline: 09/12/22)

What is the relationship between social inequality and violence?  For instance, how is violence used to create and preserve structural inequalities?

Class meets in-person on the following days:

Tuesday, September 27
Thursday, September 29
Saturday, October 1 (Detroit tour)
Tuesday, October 4
Thursday, October 6

What is the relationship between social inequality and violence?  For instance, how is violence used to create and preserve structural inequalities?

Meets 08/29/22-10/14/22 (Drop/Add Deadline: 09/12/22)

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

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

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

PUBPOL 495 (Policy Seminar) is for students currently enrolled in the Public Policy Undergraduate Program only, no exceptions. Enrollment is by permission 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 4-credit course will provide an introduction to the fundamentals of evaluation research design and methods as applied to public policies and programs.

*Instructor consent required*

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

Course Objectives:

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.

The course will examine the past, present, and future of diplomatic interactions between the United States and the other nations of the Indo-Pacific region, starting with the 1951 signing of the Treaty of San Francisco that ended the state of war

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

Racial Foundations of Public Policy is a Fall speaker series that focuses on the historical roots and impact of race in shaping public policy as both a disciplinary field and as a course of action.

*Public Policy minor students can register for Ford electives beginning Monday, April 11.

*Non-Ford students can register for Ford electives beginning Monday, April 18.

More than 50 years after the passage of the Civil Rights Act, significant gender and ethno-racial inequality in the labor market remains. Why?

Communicating through visual presentation of data is a critical skill in a variety of industries. This course will introduce students to data visualization, from principles to practice.

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

Is Congress too partisan? Can Congress fulfill its legislative and oversight functions? Do the executive and judicial branches effectively control public policy formulation?

This course develops students' abilities to use microeconomic analysis to further our understanding of public policy.

This course develops students' abilities to use microeconomic analysis to further our understanding of public policy.

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

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