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...

The Applied Policy Seminar (APS) (now called Strategic Public Policy Consulting or SPPC) is an opportunity for students to conduct a semester-long faculty-supervised group consulting project for a real-world policy...

This course seeks to make students sensitive to and articulate about the ways in which moral and political values come into play in the American policy process, particularly as they affect non-elected public officials who work in a world shaped...

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...

This course serves as an introduction to qualitative methods for MPP/MPA students.  While we will examine a range of qualitative methodological approaches, the course's core focus will be on the case study method, with special emphasis on...

This introduction to program evaluation and multiple regression analysis trains students to critically consume empirical studies and conduct their own empirical...

This course reviews the international political and legal framework established over the past fifty years to protect human...

This course examines the interaction of politics and policymaking at the state...

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

This course would explore related and sometimes competing legal and policy frameworks for the development and dissemination of ideas and expression in the Information...