An introduction to budget theory, types of budgets and budget formats. Examines characteristics of federal and state budgets and concludes with a consideration of current stresses on public budgets.
The goal of this course is to provide students with an opportunity to get their "hands dirty" with actual policy work, both as a way to utilize some of the skills they have learned in their other courses as well as to help them learn about many of
This course explores how and why socioeconomic policies (e.g., education, income/welfare, civil rights, macroeconomics/employment, housing/urban policies) may be as or more consequential for population health as “health” policies (i.e., health car
This introduction to program evaluation and multiple regression analysis trains students to critically consume empirical studies and conduct their own empirical research.
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
Policy seminars are open only to undergraduates enrolled in the Ford School. These small, interdisciplinary courses will focus on particular public policy issues as reflected in the title of the course.
This course covers descriptive statistics, probability theory, probability distributions (normal, binomial, Poisson, exponential), sampling distributions, confidence intervals, and hypothesis testing.
This course developed from an initiative of the International Policy Students Association (IPSA) at the Ford School of Public Policy. It will be in two parts.
This course examines the interaction between public policy and labor markets in theory and in practice, using empirical literature from countries in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and those from the ex-Soviet bloc.
This course examines the origins, development, and impact of selected civil rights policies concerning race. Major topics include employment, education, voting, and housing.
During the twentieth century, the U.S. both saw the development of a social welfare system to serve nonelderly families and a subsequent dramatic overhaul of the cash welfare part of that system.
Meet-together with Law 844. This seminar will focus on substantive law as to ensuring students achieve equal educational opportunity and adequate education.
This course will explore the global issues of illegal drugs, crime and terrorism. Course content emphasizes policy options, formulation and implementation, and the tools and skills needed to produce effective recommendations for decision making.
This course will explore public policy governance and implementation through current interdisciplinary literature and case examples. The aim is to give Ph.D.
This course provides an overview of international financial economics, developing analytic tools and concepts that can be used to analyze world economic policy debates.