Courses | Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy
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PUBPOL 529

PUBPOL 529.001: Statistics

Jonathan Hanson
This course covers descriptive statistics, probability theory, probability distributions (normal, binomial, Poisson, exponential), sampling distributions, confidence intervals, and hypothesis...
PUBPOL 615

PUBPOL 615.001: Universities & Society

The Evolving Bargain Between Research Universities and Society --- The role of the university as both 'servant and critic' of society is one of constant...
PUBPOL 580

PUBPOL 580.001: Values, Ethics, and Public Policy

David Thacher
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...
PUBPOL 746

PUBPOL 746.001: Social Welfare Policy

Luke Shaefer
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...
PUBPOL 687

PUBPOL 687.001: Negotiations

This course examines negotiation and social influence strategies for policy makers in the public, non-profit, and for-profit...
PUBPOL 578

PUBPOL 578.001: Applied Policy Seminar

Elisabeth Gerber
The Applied Policy Seminar (APS) (now called Strategic Public Policy Consulting or SPPC) is an opportunity for students to conduct a faculty-supervised consulting project for a public, private, or non-profit sector policy organization at the...
PUBPOL 513

PUBPOL 513.001: Calculus

Carl Simon
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...
PUBPOL 412

PUBPOL 412.001: Environ in Pub Pol

Public policy embodies an assortment of value systems. While individual value systems express coherent, consistent approaches, public policy expresses an amalgam of values, with corresponding decrease in...
PUBPOL 210

PUBPOL 210.001: Health & Society: Introduction to Public Health

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...
PUBPOL 830

PUBPOL 830.001: Immersion in Research

Brian Jacob
This course is designed to immerse students in a major research project of their own design. By the end of the two-semester course, students will be required to produce a polished paper, which can later be incorporated into their...