Course catalog

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

The objective of this course is to provide a foundation in statistics and their application to questions in public policy and social science research.

Policy makers have long relied on quantitative analysis to inform their decision-making, and recent advances in data gathering and in computing have made quantitative analysis even more prevalent.

This is a core course restricted to Ford School students only. Registration is by permission only.

This is a core course restricted to Ford School students only. Registration is by permission only.

This is a core course restricted to Ford School students only. Registration 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.

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

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

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).

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

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

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.