This course will provide students with a practical hands-on instruction in advanced data analysis techniques using Microsoft...

The information revolution and the expanding use of information technology within all organizations, profit and non-profit, public and private, has created an environment in which access to massive quantities of information, at startling speeds,...

This course examines contemporary higher education public policy issues and provides a general introduction to the policymaking process in the United...

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...

This course covers descriptive statistics, probability theory, probability distributions (normal, binomial, Poisson, exponential), sampling distributions, confidence intervals, and hypothesis...

The nonprofit sector has emerged as one of the cornerstones of American society, and yet remains very much a work in...

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 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 examines the interaction between public policy and labor markets in theory and in practice, using empirical literature from countries in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and those from the ex-Soviet...