Course catalog

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

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

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 will introduce you to the fundamental leadership concepts and skills you need to successfully navigate and shape dynamic policy environments.

This 4-credit course will provide an introduction to the fundamentals of evaluation research design and methods as applied to public policies and programs.

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.

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

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 introduce you to the fundamental leadership concepts and skills you need to successfully navigate and shape dynamic policy environments.

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

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.

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

Class meets in person on:
October 27
November 3
November 17
December 1

Meets: 10/24/22 - 12/09/22. (Drop/Add Deadline: 11/07/22)

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.

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 focuses on how international development interventions are managed by a variety of development actors.

This course examines the policy issues of international trade, including trade in both goods and services and also international flows of direct investment and migration.

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

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

Class meets in person on:
October 27
November 3
November 17
December 1

Meets: 10/24/22 - 12/09/22. (Drop/Add Deadline: 11/07/22)

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

The African continent is often presented by the media (and many others) as a land of war, famine, disease, corruption, and underdevelopment.

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

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

*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.

Gas plants explode, planes crash, and nuclear power plants suffer meltdowns. Human beings make mistakes and complex technologies fail in unexpected ways.

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