This course is designed to introduce students to the policy and practice of community development finance including how private sector developers and lenders work with nonprofits, foundations, and the public sector to promote affordable housing,...
Detroit was the nation's most important city in the Twentieth Century because of 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...
This introduction to program evaluation and multiple regression analysis trains students to critically consume empirical studies and conduct their own empirical...
This course focuses on rigorous evaluation of policies and interventions intended to support children's early learning and success in K-12. Evaluations will be discussed in the context of the current and historical...
How are the inherent and intersecting relations of power including inherent structures of dominance related to the experience of violence, oppression and resistance textured into the context of politics and policy...
This is a course on how economists think about government revenue and government expenditures — how governments raise and spend public money. Public Finance is a subfield of...
This course is designed to give students an understanding of how budgeting and financial planning are used in the management of organizations for which money is the means to the end, but not the end...
This course is designed to familiarize students with the Michigan political system and learn about current policy issues at play both statewide and in local...
This is a professional skills workshop that will be required for students enrolled in the Applied Policy Seminar (APS, PP578) and open to other MPP/ Master's student. To be offered each semester, concurrent with the...
A bi-weekly one-credit seminar that introduces students to applied policy research. For students in the Ford School Joint Ph.D. program.
Students will meet on the following dates: 9/7, 9/21, 10/5, 10/19, 11/2, 11/16,...
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...
Interdisciplinary Problem Solving --- "Interdisciplinary Problem Solving" is a course offered at the Law School through the Problem Solving Initiative...
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...
Hydraulic fracturing and horizontal drilling have made the United States the world's largest producer of oil and natural gas. What does that mean for the domestic economy, energy prices, foreign policy, climate change, and local...
The course aims to actively engage students in environmental policy research, broadly defined to include not just conventional issues such as air and water pollution, but also–and especially–ever-evolving energy and climate...
This section explores the politics of policymaking processes in a comparative perspective. Students will learn how these processes are shaped by economic, social, cultural, and institutional...
