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PUBPOL 746: Social Welfare Policy

During the twentieth century, the U.S. both saw the development of a social welfare system to serve nonelderly families and a subsequent dramatic overhaul of the cash welfare part of that...

PUBPOL 750-001

PUBPOL 750-001: Topics In Public Policy: Urban Public Finance

This is a Special Topics course and the topic may change each term. In Winter 2010 this course will be taught by Rowan...

PUBPOL 754

PUBPOL 754: Research Seminar in Science, Tech and Public Policy

In memoriam: James Duderstadt

The aim of this course is to introduce students to topical issues in science and technology policy. The course will meet weekly for a formal...

PUBPOL 759

PUBPOL 759: Genetics and Biotechnology Policy

Shobita Parthasarathy

As one of the hottest areas of scientific and technological development today, genetics and biotechnology are raising a variety of difficult and controversial policy...

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

Brian Jacob

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

PUBPOL 558-001

PUBPOL 558-001: Microeconomics B: Basics of Economic Decision-Making

Alan Deardorff

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 587-002

PUBPOL 587-002: Public Management

Barry Rabe

All three sections of 587 in Winter Term 2011 will continue to emphasize common themes such as performance management, strategic planning, and inter-institutional network...

PUBPOL 587-003

PUBPOL 587-003: Public Management

All three sections of 587 in Winter Term 2011 will continue to emphasize common themes such as performance management, strategic planning, and inter-institutional network...

PubPol 750-002

PubPol 750-002: Topics in Public Policy: Nonprofit Law and Policy

This is a Special Topics course and the topic may change each...

PubPol 750-003

PubPol 750-003: Topics in Public Policy: Global Corporate Social Responsibility

Marina Whitman

This is a Special Topics course and the topic may change each...

PubPol 475-001

PubPol 475-001: Topics: The U.S. Presidency

The President is at the center of almost every major policy enacted by the government. But how each president chooses to exercise that power and utilize their office is very...

PubPol 475-003

PubPol 475-003: Senior Colloquium

John Chamberlin

The Senior Colloquium will follow the debate that ensues from the release of the Report of the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform on December...

PubPol 495-001

PubPol 495-001: Policy Seminar: Energy Policy

Policy seminars are open only to undergraduates enrolled in the Ford School. These small, interdisciplinary courses will focus on particular public policy issues as reflected in the title of the...

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...

PubPol 716-001

PubPol 716-001: Introduction to Chinese Policy

This first portion of the course, held in Ann Arbor, will introduce students to China and its policy and economic environments. Drawing on the expertise of Ford School faculty and outside guests, each class will focus on a different policy...

PubPol 716-002

PubPol 716-002: Introduction to Chinese Policy Tour

In the second portion of the course, Ford School students will travel to Beijing, China for 12 days (depart May 1, 2011, return May 13, 2011) to learn more about China through meetings with business and government leaders, sessions with Renmin...

PubPol 643

PubPol 643: Health Insurance in America

This course will explore the history, structure and likely future trends of private health insurance in the...

PubPol 750-006

PubPol 750-006: Economic Policy Issues in Developing Countries

Susan Collins

This course will focus on economic development policy – intended to achieve rapid and sustained economic growth and alleviate poverty (spreading...

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

PUBPOL 320: Politics, Political Institutions, and Public Policy

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

PUBPOL 330

PUBPOL 330: Microeconomics for Public Policy

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

PUBPOL 422

PUBPOL 422: Congress and State Legislatures: Effective or Outmoded?

John Schwarz

Is Congress too partisan? Can Congress fulfill its legislative and oversight functions? Do the executive and judicial branches effectively control public policy formulation? Have the State Legislatures become the true "laboratories of...

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 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 495-001

PUBPOL 495-001: Policy Seminar: Political Advocacy

Richard Hall

Policy seminars are open only to undergraduates enrolled in the Ford School. These small, interdisciplinary courses will focus on particular public policy issues as reflected in the title of the...

PUBPOL 495-002

PUBPOL 495-002: Policy Seminar: Apology, Reconciliation, Reparations, and Public Policy

Yazier Henry

Policy seminars are open only to undergraduates enrolled in the Ford School. These small, interdisciplinary courses will focus on particular public policy issues as reflected in the title of the...

PUBPOL 594/SNRE 575

PUBPOL 594/SNRE 575: Thinking Analytically for Policy and Decision

The course will develop the skills of using analytic methods and models to understand real decisions and policy issues, drawn from the realms of natural resource management, public policy, business strategy, politics, negotiations, and...

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...