Topics in Public Policy. The course will focus on a selected topic in domestic or international policy. Topics will vary from term to term.
In Fall 2007, the topic will be Congress and State Legislatures: Effective or Outmoded?
This is the first of two separate half-term seminars, which may be taken together or separately. Recent topics have included the determinants of the U.S.
This is the first of two separate half-term seminars, which may be taken together or separately. Recent topics have included the determinants of the U.S.
The Applied Policy Seminar (APS) (now called Strategic Public Policy Consulting or SPPC) is an opportunity for students to do public sector consulting work for state and local governments and community development organizations in Ann Arbor, Detro
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.
When Michigan voters go to the polls on November 2 to elect a new governor and a new legislature, there is near unanimity that jobs and the economy will be the paramount issue.
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 care a
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 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 course will not be offered in Fall 2012. We anticipate offering it in Fall 2013.**
Modern societies are dealing with a growing array of risks, including environmental pollution and newly discovered illnesses.
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.
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 teaches the norms of policy writing to 1st year policy students. Through small workshops, students will analyze approaches to different types of policy writing.
International trade policy can influence a country´s economic performance. Many countries have entered agreements, legally binding and more enforceable than other international law, by which they reciprocally commit their trade policies…and more.
This course is designed specifically to provide students in all degree programs at the Ford School with the fundamental mathematical tools necessary for their subsequent coursework.
Most business courses teach you how to play the game of business within the rules. This course is about the rules themselves, their creation and their enforcement.
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
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.
The course will develop the skills of using analytic methods and models to understand real decisions and policy issues, drawn from the realms of natural resource management, public policy, business strategy, politics, negotiations, and conflict.
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.
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.
This is a Special Topics course and the topic may change each term.
FALL 2010: Local Government Leadership in Times of Change
Study the role of leadership in local government during times of significant change.
This course covers descriptive statistics, probability theory, probability distributions (normal, binomial, Poisson, exponential), sampling distributions, confidence intervals, and hypothesis testing.
