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PUBPOL 763

PUBPOL 763: Global Issues: Drugs, Crime, and Terrorism

Melvyn Levitsky

This course will explore the global issues of illegal drugs, crime and terrorism. Course content emphasizes policy options, formulation and implementation, and the tools and skills needed to produce effective recommendations for decision...

PubPol 778

PubPol 778: Project Skills Workshop

Elisabeth Gerber

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...

PUBPOL 810

PUBPOL 810: Policy Research Seminar

Mary Corcoran

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

PubPol 475.001

PubPol 475.001: Topics: Ethics

This course will provide an introduction to ethical issues within public policy. We will begin the course by studying some classic texts of moral philosophy which take up questions about how we ought to live and what we owe to...

PubPol 475.002

PubPol 475.002: 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 456

PUBPOL 456: Local Government, Opportunity for Activism

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 756

PUBPOL 756: Local Government, Opportunity for Activism

PubPol 495.001

PubPol 495.001: Policy Seminar: Justice

John Chamberlin

This seminar will examine theories of justice and their applications in particular areas of public...

PubPol 495.002

PubPol 495.002: Policy Seminar: Education Policy

Brian Jacob

This course examines a number of popular approaches to education reform, using an economic lens to understand the impetus and potential impact of...

PUBPOL 533

PUBPOL 533: Public Health in Developing Countries

This course will focus on public health in the developing world from the perspective of the social sciences, drawing on economics, demography, political science and...

PUBPOL 534

PUBPOL 534: The Economics of Developing Countries

Dean Yang

This course surveys what we do and don't know about economic growth and poverty alleviation in developing countries. We begin by discussing alternative perspectives on the goals of...

PUBPOL 563/NRE686/HMP686

PUBPOL 563/NRE686/HMP686: Politics of Environmental Regulation

Barry Rabe

This course will consider the capacity of North American political institutions to shape effective environmental protection policies, devoting primary emphasis to the United States but also examining Canada and...

PUBPOL 567

PUBPOL 567: Practicum in Data Analysis Using STATA

This course will provide students with a practical hands-on instruction in the analysis of survey data using the statistical package Stata. Students will learn how to investigate a variety of public policy issues using data from the...

PubPol 611

PubPol 611: Higher Education and Public Policy

Kevin Stange

This course will examine the higher education sector from several different angles, but with an emphasis placed on the economic...

PubPol 624

PubPol 624: Media, Public Opinion, and Foreign Policy

This course will investigate the various means, both direct and indirect, through which the mass media and public opinion can influence the foreign policy making...

PubPol 662

PubPol 662: Global Corporate Social Responsibility

Marina Whitman

Course will examine the origins of the concept of CSR its meaning and motivations, and the shareholder-stakeholder controversy, where the latter include employees, communities (now defined globally) and, most recently, the global...

PUBPOL 673

PUBPOL 673: International Security Affairs

Robert Axelrod

This course covers the policy issues involved in the areas of defense, deterrence, and arms control in the contemporary...

PUBPOL 720/SI 621

PUBPOL 720/SI 621: Information, Ethics, and Applied Policy

The information revolution and the expanding use of information technology within all organizations, profit and non-profit, public and private, has created an environment in which access to massive quantities of information, at startling speeds,...

PUBPOL 732

PUBPOL 732: Public Policy in Post-Secondary Education

In the first part of the course you will be introduced to some of the analytic frameworks and conceptual theories used to study American public policy making and you will learn how these models were applied to a classic public policy...

PubPol 750.001

PubPol 750.001: Topics: International Macroeconomic and Financial Policy

Susan Collins

This course introduces key policy issues in international macroeconomics and finance. We will develop analytic tools that are the building blocks for understanding global economic policy...

PubPol 750.002&750.003

PubPol 750.002&750.003: Topics: Detroit Policy Workshop

The course will focus on urban policy and economic development issues in the Detroit metropolitan...

PubPol 750.004

PubPol 750.004: Topics: Field Experiments in Developing Countries

Dean Yang

Randomized control trials in field settings (field experiments) are a powerful research methodology that is shedding new light on a wide variety of development problems...

PubPol 767

PubPol 767: Social Welfare Policy & the Lived Experience

Mary Corcoran

This course covers current and planned government anti-poverty...

PUBPOL 768

PUBPOL 768: Efforts at Health Care Reform in the US

Students will critically examine successes and failures in health care reform in the United States over the last...

PubPol 830

PubPol 830: Immersion in Research

Alan Deardorff

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...

PUBPOL 481

PUBPOL 481: Science, Technology, and Public Policy

In memoriam: James Duderstadt

The aim of this lecture course is to introduce students to the manner in which science and technology issues both shape and are shaped by public...

PUBPOL 201

PUBPOL 201: Systematic Thinking About The Problems of the Day

Paul Courant

The main idea that we want to get across is implicit in the title: Systematic thinking - largely from the social sciences, but with the application of scientific methods and knowledge more generally - can make a significant difference in the way...

PUBPOL 320

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