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

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...

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...

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...

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

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

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...

Note: PubPol 510 combines and replaces content previously offered in PubPol 585 and 560. PubPol 510 is now the required core politics...

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...