This course examines a number of popular approaches to education reform, using an economic lens to understand the theoretical rationale and potential impact of...
The goal of this course is to provide students with an opportunity to get their hands dirty with actual policy work, both as a way to utilize some of the skills they have learned in their other courses as well as to help them learn about many of...
The Integrated Policy Exercise provides students with a week long opportunity to work intensively on a policy issue. The course is held the first week in...
This course examines the many ways in which international affairs is intertwined with science and technology, both in theory and in practice. The course proceeds in three...
This course developed from an initiative of the International Policy Students Association (IPSA) at the Ford School of Public Policy. It will be in two...
This course developed from an initiative of the International Policy Students Association (IPSA) at the Ford School of Public Policy. It will be in two...
This course examines how globalization affects social and economic policymaking within and between countries and how policies can be designed to both capitalize on the new opportunities created by globalization and ameliorate its most painful...
(2 Credits for class portion) -- This is a year-long course devoted to developing an internet-based course to promote quantitative social science in South...
This course examines contemporary higher education public policy issues and provides a general introduction to the policymaking process in the United...
This course is organized around contemporary policy issues affecting the health and health care of children in the US and their families, set within the context of the US health care...
This is a Speical Topics course and the topic changes every new term. This will be a four week course in macroeconomic policy topics, for the United States and other...
As one of the hottest areas of scientific and technological development today, genetics and biotechnology are raising a variety of difficult and controversial policy...
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...
This course covers descriptive statistics, probability theory, probability distributions (normal, binomial, Poisson, exponential), sampling distributions, confidence intervals, and hypothesis...
This course will focus on public health policy primarily in the developing world. We will begin by reviewing epidemiological and demographic evidence on the leading causes of mortality and morbidity...
This course examines the policy issues of international trade, including trade in both goods and services and also international flows of direct investment and...
This course begins a two-term sequence designed to provide students with an understanding of the economic implications of public policies and with analytic tools useful in system design and policy...
This calculus-based course provides a fast-paced overview of the microeconomic models underlying the actions of consumers and households, firms, regulators, and other public...
Foreign Policy and the Management of International Relations This course examines alternative institutions and strategies through which nations articulate, either cooperatively or competitively, their foreign policy...
