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...

Budgeting takes place at every level in public organizations, from projects through offices and departments, to whole...

This course examines the origins, development, and impact of selected civil rights policies concerning race. Major topics include employment, education, voting, and...

This is a year-long course devoted to developing an internet-based course to promote quantitative social science in South...