Course catalog

The African continent is often presented by the media (and many others) as a land of war, famine, disease, corruption, and underdevelopment.

This course provides an introduction to public policy design and analysis using "systematic thinking" from the social sciences and humanities, with the application of scientific methods and knowledge more generally.

This course introduces students to the adoption and implementation of environmental policy, with primary emphasis on the United States.

This course prepares students to understand the political and institutional environment within which public policy is formulated and implemented.

This course prepares students to understand the political and institutional environment within which public policy is formulated and implemented.

This course develops students' abilities to use microeconomic analysis to further our understanding of public policy.

This course develops students' abilities to use microeconomic analysis to further our understanding of public policy.

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 is designed to familiarize students with core skills in data access, manipulation, analysis, and presentation using Excel (and Excel-like alternatives).

This course is designed to familiarize students with core skills in data access, manipulation, analysis, and presentation using Excel (and Excel-like alternatives).

More than 50 years after the passage of the Civil Rights Act, significant gender and ethno-racial inequality in the labor market remains. Why?

What is the relationship between social inequality and violence?  For instance, how is violence used to create and preserve structural inequalities?

The course will examine the past, present, and future of diplomatic interactions between the United States and the other nations of the Indo-Pacific region, starting with the 1951 signing of the Treaty of San Francisco that ended the state of war

Through the lens of racial justice, Racial Foundations of Public Policy will equip students to better understand the critical role of public policy in improving our world and communities.

This is a required course open only to current Ford School BA students.

Course Objectives:

In this course, we will examine the K-12 and higher education sectors, with a focus on key policy issues in each area.

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 country-contexts.

Remote Course

This course examines policy issues affecting Latinx populations in the United States and social movements that have advocated for Latin

Meet together with OS 460 Racial Disparities in Policing with Professor Nick Camp (previously offered as OS495).

PUBPOL 495 (Policy Seminar) is for students currently enrolled in the Public Policy Undergraduate Program only, no exceptions. Enrollment is by permission only.

PUBPOL 495 (Policy Seminar) is for students currently enrolled in the Public Policy Undergraduate Program only, no exceptions. Enrollment is by permission only.

PUBPOL 495 (Policy Seminar) is for students currently enrolled in the Public Policy Undergraduate Program only, no exceptions. Enrollment is by permission only.

This course will introduce you to the fundamental leadership concepts and skills you need to successfully navigate and shape dynamic organizational and policy environments.

Note: Instructor consent required*

PUBPOL 495 (Policy Seminar) is for students currently enrolled in the Public Policy Undergraduate Program only, no exceptions. Enrollment is by permission only.

This 4-credit course will provide an introduction to the fundamentals of evaluation research design and methods as applied to public policies and programs.

PUBPOL 495 (Policy Seminar) is for students currently enrolled in the Public Policy Undergraduate Program only, no exceptions. Enrollment is by permission only.