Courses | Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy
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PubPol 466

PubPol 466: Topics: The History and Future of Detroit

Detroit was the nation’s most important city in the Twentieth Century because of the the auto industry, the emergence of the blue collar middle class and development of the New Deal. Now it is the most negatively stereotyped city in the...
PUBPOL 513

PUBPOL 513: 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 521

PubPol 521: Introduction to Policy Writing

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.  They will produce a good deal of writing - and receive detailed...
PUBPOL 529

PUBPOL 529: Statistics

This course covers descriptive statistics, probability theory, probability distributions (normal, binomial, Poisson, exponential), sampling distributions, confidence intervals, and hypothesis...
PUBPOL 555

PUBPOL 555: Microeconomics A

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...
PUBPOL 578

PUBPOL 578: 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 semester-long faculty-supervised group consulting project for a real-world policy...
PUBPOL 580

PUBPOL 580: Values, Ethics, and Public Policy

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 626

PubPol 626: The History and Future of Detroit

No metropolis played a greater role in shaping the Twentieth Century world than did Detroit. This course focuses upon the history and future of Detroit emphasizing the private and governmental policies that now seek to revitalize the...