This course analyzes the conditions and causes of poverty within the United States and the variety of economic, social, and political responses to...

This is the first of two separate half-term seminars, which may be taken together or separately. Recent topics have included the determinants of the...

This is the second of two separate half-term seminars, which may be taken together or...

This part of the course introduces students to continuity and change in China's foreign policy, focusing on the reform...

China's reform and opening-up has been a great event in the world in the past more than two...

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...

This course concentrates on the foreign policy aspects of U.S. National Security. We will study the Cold War preface to current policy as well as broad issues of substance and process affecting national security...

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

There is no policy without victory. More precisely, well-planned and well-executed political campaigns win elections and make governing...

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...