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PUBPOL 810

PUBPOL 810.001: PhD Policy Research Seminar

Elisabeth Gerber

A bi-weekly one-credit seminar that introduces students to applied policy research. For students in the Ford School Joint Ph.D....

PUBPOL 495

PUBPOL 495.004: Topics: Comparative Law and Policy

Valenta Kabo

Because law is one of the means through which policies are enacted, understanding the different structures of legal systems is a necessary for understanding policy promulgation in different...

PUBPOL 750

PUBPOL 750.001: Topics: Facilitating Dialogue Across Faultline: Race, Identity and Socio-Cultural Difference

Yazier Henry

This is a short introductory course module in facilitating complex and difficult dialogic moments of engagement in the social, professional and institutional spheres of the public...

PUBPOL 750

PUBPOL 750.004: Topics: Federal Budget Process

Betsey Stevenson

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PUBPOL 750

PUBPOL 750.007: Topics: Great Depression to the Great Recession

Joshua Hausman

Since the 2008 financial crisis, developed countries have suffered high unemployment and slow growth. What are options for policymakers in this...

PUBPOL 750

PUBPOL 750.008: Special Topics

Valenta Kabo

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PUBPOL 750

PUBPOL 750.011: Topics: Contemporary Public Policy Formation

The class deals with the political, practical and substantive facets of policy making. We do this by analyzing the passage - and sometimes failure - of signature pieces of federal legislation that imposed massive change on the...

PUBPOL 519

PUBPOL 519.001: Sustainable Energy Systems

Assessment of the current energy systems that encompasses resource extraction, conversion processes and...

PUBPOL 475

PUBPOL 475.001: Topics: Contemporary Public Policy Formation

PUBPOL 475

PUBPOL 475.002: Topics: Facilitating Dialogue Across Faultline: Race, Identity and Socio-Cultural Difference

Yazier Henry

This is a short introductory course module in facilitating complex and difficult dialogic moments of engagement in the social, professional and institutional spheres of the public...

PUBPOL 475

PUBPOL 475.003: Topics: Great Depression to the Great Recession

Joshua Hausman

Since the 2008 financial crisis, developed countries have suffered high unemployment and slow growth. What are options for policymakers in this...

PUBPOL 475

PUBPOL 475.006: Leadership & Communication in State-level Policy Making

States enjoy enormous away over education, transportation, health care, and other policies. Politicians and interest groups that shape decisions differ I many respects to those active at the federal and local...

PUBPOL 647

PUBPOL 647.001: Data Analysis Using Excel I

Jonathan Hanson

This course will provide students with a practical hands-on introduction to data analysis using Microsoft...

PUBPOL 626

PUBPOL 626.001: The History and Future of Detroit

Walter Reynolds Farley

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...

PUBPOL 210

PUBPOL 210.001: Health and 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 515

PUBPOL 515.001: Non-Market Strategy

Shaping the Rules of the Game --- 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...

PUBPOL 621

PUBPOL 621.001: Peacebuilding

This course will examine how the U.S. and other international actors seek to help pacify, stabilize, and rebuild societies embroiled or emerging from...

PUBPOL 750-002

PUBPOL 750-002: Topics -Non-Profits and Social Justice Advocacy

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PubPol 626

PubPol 626: The History and Future of Detroit

PubPol 633

PubPol 633: Qualitative Methods

This course serves as an introduction to qualitative methods for MPP/MPA students. While we will examine a range of qualitative methodological approaches, the course's core focus will be on the case study method, with special emphasis on...

PUBPOL 625

PUBPOL 625: The Legislative Branch: Structure and Current Issues

John Schwarz

This course will deal primarily with the Legislative Branch of Government at both the State and Federal levels. Legislative strategies and the possible outcomes of those strategies will be...

PUBPOL 558.002

PUBPOL 558.002: Microeconomics B: Economic Decision-Making in depth

Dean Yang

This course aims to teach students how to use and conduct benefit-cost analysis. To do this, students must possess the ability to model economic behavior in the real...

PUBPOL 638

PUBPOL 638: Integrated Policy Exercise

Elisabeth Gerber

The Integrated Policy Exercise provides students with a week long opportunity to work intensively on a policy issue. The course is held the first week in...

PubPol 778

PubPol 778: Project Skills Workshop

Elisabeth Gerber

This is a professional skills workshop that is required for students enrolled in the Applied Policy Seminar (APS, PP578) and open to other MPP/ Master’s students. The workshop will be offered each semester, concurrent with the...

PUBPOL 423

PUBPOL 423: Political Campaign Strategies and Tactics

Gerald Hills

There is no policy without victory. More precisely, well-planned and well-executed political campaigns win elections and make governing...

PUBPOL 423-DISCUSSION

PUBPOL 423: Political Campaign Strategies and Tactics

There is no policy without victory. More precisely, well-planned and well-executed political campaigns win elections and make governing...

PUBPOL 423-DISCUSSION

PUBPOL 423: Political Campaign Strategies and Tactics

There is no policy without victory. More precisely, well-planned and well-executed political campaigns win elections and make governing...

PUBPOL 456

PUBPOL 456: Local Government, Opportunity for Activism

John Hieftje

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...

PubPol 466

PubPol 466: Topics: The History and Future of Detroit

Detroit was the nation’s most important city in the Twentieth Century because 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 475.002

PUBPOL 475.002: Topics: The Politics of Identity

Mara Ostfeld

Race, gender, religion, sexuality and other social identities permeate the development and administration of American public policy. These identities are just as powerful of a tool in efforts to reduce social and economic disparities...

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