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PUBPOL 717: Social Activism, Democracy, and Globalization from the Perspective of the Global South

Yazier Henry

Fall 2014 4:56-4:56 am EST Download Syllabus

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?

PUBPOL 475

PUBPOL 475.005: Topics: Improving Public Health Through Policy Innovation

Paula Lantz

Monday, Wednesday

Fall 2015 11:30 am-1:00 pm EST Download Syllabus

In this course, students will examine and create innovative policy solutions to pressing and complex public health problems in the United States.

PUBPOL 750

PUBPOL 750.006: Topics: International Politics of Poverty

Susan Waltz

Tuesday, Thursday

Fall 2015 1:00-2:30 pm EST

This course will cover controversies and conundrums in international development policy.

PUBPOL 475

PUBPOL 475.002: Topics: Facilitating Dialogue Across Faultline: Race, Identity and Socio-Cultural Difference

Yazier Henry

Tuesday

Fall 2015 4:00-6:00 pm EST

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

PUBPOL 521

PUBPOL 521.007: Introduction to Policy Writing

David Morse

Monday

Fall 2016 2:30-4:00 pm EST

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.

PUBPOL 750

PUBPOL 750.506: Topics: Budget Literacy for Mission Driven Orgs

Denise Thal

Wednesday

Fall 2016 4:30-6:00 pm EST

This course is designed to give students an understanding of how budgeting and financial planning are used in the management of organizations for which money is the means to the end, but not the end itself.

PUBPOL 475

PUBPOL 475.309: Topics: Higher Education and Public Policy

Kevin Stange

Monday, Wednesday

Fall 2017 2:30-4:00 pm EST

Higher Education and Public Policy --- This course will examine the higher education sector from several different angles, but with an emphasis placed on the economic issues.

PUBPOL 580

PUBPOL 580.001: Values, Ethics, and Public Policy

Joy Rohde

Tuesday, Thursday

Fall 2017 2:30-4:00 pm EST Download Syllabus

This is a core course restricted to Ford School students only

PUBPOL 555

PUBPOL 555.001: Microeconomics A

Justin Wolfers

Monday, Wednesday

Fall 2018 10:00-11:20 am EST Download Syllabus

This course begins a two-term sequence designed to provide students with an understanding of the economic implications of public policies and with analytic tools useful in system design and policy planning.

PUBPOL 521

PUBPOL 521.006 Introduction to Policy Writing

David Morse

Thursday

Fall 2018 2:30-3:50 pm EST

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.

PUBPOL 495.003

PUBPOL 495.003: Policy Seminar: Poverty, Inequality, & Public Policy

Natasha Pilkauskas

Monday, Wednesday

Fall 2019 8:30-9:50 am EST

PubPol 495 is open to students in the Public Policy BA program, by permission only.

PUBPOL 717

PUBPOL 717: Social Activism, Democracy & Globalization: Perspective of the Global South

Yazier Henry

Thursday

Fall 2019 4:00-6:50 pm EST

PUBPOL 710.004

PUBPOL 710.004: Repairing the Unemployment Insurance Safety Net

Wednesday

Fall 2019 3:15-6:30 pm EST

This class is an interdisciplinary problem solving class offered at the Law School through the Problem Solving Initiative (PSI).

PUBPOL 560

PUBPOL 560: Foreign Policy and the Management of International Relations

Susan Waltz

Fall 2007 4:56-4:56 am EST

Foreign Policy and the Management of International Relations This course examines alternative institutions and strategies through which nations articulate, either cooperatively or competitively, their foreign policy objectives.

PUBPOL 201

PUBPOL 201: Systematic Thinking About The Problems of the Day

Paul Courant

Fall 2007 4:56-4:56 am EST

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 difference in the way that we appro

PUBPOL 688

PUBPOL 688: Intellectual Property and Information Law

Fall 2006 4:56-4:56 am EST

This course would explore related and sometimes competing legal and policy frameworks for the development and dissemination of ideas and expression in the Information Age.

PUBPOL 747-002

PUBPOL 747-002: Issues and Options for Multilateral, Regional, and Bilateral Trade Liberalization

Robert Stern

Fall 2005 4:56-4:56 am EST

This is the second of two separate half-term seminars, which may be taken together or separately.

PUBPOL 688/SI 519

PUBPOL 688/SI 519: Intellectual Property and Information Law

Fall 2008 4:56-4:56 am EST

This course would explore related and sometimes competing legal and policy frameworks for the development and dissemination of ideas and expression in the Information Age.

PUBPOL 756

PUBPOL 756: Local Government, Opportunity for Activism

John Hieftje

Fall 2009 4:56-4:56 am EST

What goes on in city government is in many ways more important to our lives than what happens in Washington. This course goes beyond the structure and theory of municipal government to look at how things really happen at the local level.

PUBPOL 422

PUBPOL 422: Congress and State Legislatures: Effective or Outmoded?

John Schwarz

Fall 2010 4:56-4:56 am EST

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

PUBPOL 730

PUBPOL 730: Women & Employment Policy

Mary Corcoran

Fall 2010 4:56-4:56 am EST

This course reviews the literature on sex differences from a biological, social, and legal standpoint.

pubpol 495.003

PUBPOL 495.003: Policy Seminar: Irrational Actors: Psychological Approaches to Decision Making

Kaitlin Raimi

Monday, Wednesday

Fall 2020 1:00-2:20 pm EST

PubPol 495 is open to students in the Public Policy BA program, by permission only.

PUBPOL 580

PUBPOL 580: Values, Ethics, and Public Policy

John Ciorciari

Fall 2011 4:56-4:56 am EST

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 po

PUBPOL 750.003

PUBPOL 750.003: Topics: The Role of Courts in International Human Rights

Hardy Vieux

Friday

Fall 2020 9:00-11:50 am EST

This course will explore the legal enforcement of those human rights that are fundamental and are the birthright of all human beings. We will review the international political and legal framework established over the past fifty years to protect

PUBPOL 639

PUBPOL 639: Quantitative Methods of Program Evaluation

Susan Dynarski

Fall 2012 4:56-4:56 am EST

This introduction to program evaluation and multiple regression analysis trains students to critically consume empirical studies and conduct their own empirical research.

PubPol 612

PubPol 612: Human Security

Fall 2012 4:56-4:56 am EST

At the core of human security are specific answers to security for whom, from what, and by what means. Its fundamental assumptions are: (a) That the individual is one of the referents for security; (b) That the security of the individual or the gro

PUBPOL 210/HMP200

PUBPOL 210/HMP200: Health and Society: Introduction to Public Health

Fall 2013 4:56-4:56 am EST

This course is intended to serve as an introduction to the major issues of health and health care in the United States – what they are, what determines them, and how they can be altered. In so doing, the course surveys the field of public health.

PUBPOL 750.001

PUBPOL 750.001: Topics: Local Govt Leadership in Times of Change

Fall 2013 4:56-4:56 am EST

Local Government Leadership in Times of Change Study the role of leadership in local government during times of significant change.

PUBPOL 201

PUBPOL 201: Systematic Thinking About The Problems of the Day

Paul Courant

Fall 2008 4:56-4:56 am EST

PUBPOL 423

PUBPOL 423: Political Campaign Strategies and Tactics

Gerald Hills

Fall 2008 4:56-4:56 am EST

There is no policy without victory. More precisely, well-planned and well-executed political campaigns win elections and make governing possible.