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PUBPOL 475

PUBPOL 475.103: Topics: Policy Implications of Detroit's Grand Bargain

Taught by editorial page editor of The Detroit News Nolan...

PUBPOL 475

PUBPOL 475.306: Topics: Leadership & Communication in State Level Policy Making

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

PUBPOL 510

PUBPOL 510.001: The Politics of Public Policy

Valenta Kabo

This is a core course restricted to Ford School students only This section of 510 aims to help you better understand policy analysis and the political environment within a context of American domestic politics at the national...

PUBPOL 578

PUBPOL 578.001: Applied Policy Seminar

Elisabeth Gerber

Applied Policy Seminar (APS) (now called Strategic Public Policy Consulting or SPPC) is an opportunity for students to conduct a faculty-supervised consulting project for a public, private, or non-profit sector policy organization at the...

PUBPOL 578

PUBPOL 578.003: Applied Policy Seminar

PUBPOL 580

PUBPOL 580.001: Values, Ethics, and Public Policy

Joy Rohde

This is a core course restricted to Ford School students...

PUBPOL 682

PUBPOL 682.001: Leadership & Communication in State-level Policy Making

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

PUBPOL 626

PUBPOL 626.001: The History and Future of Detroit

Walter Reynolds Farley

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...

PUBPOL 466

PUBPOL 466.001: The History and Future of Detroit

Walter Reynolds Farley

Detroit was the nation's most important city in the Twentieth Century because of the the auto industry, the emergence of the blue collar middle class and development of the New Deal. Now it is the most negatively stereotyped city in the...

PUBPOL 475

PUBPOL 475: Topics: The Role of Non-Governmental Organizations in Policy Formation

Taught by Towsley Policymaker in Residence Hardy Vieux (Legal Director at Human Rights...

PUBPOL 638

PUBPOL 638.001: Integrated Policy Exercise

Elisabeth Gerber

The Integrated Policy Exercise provides students with a week long opportunity to work intensively on a policy issue. The course is held the first week in...

PUBPOL 423

PUBPOL 423.001: Political Campaign Strategy and Tactics

Gerald Hills

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

PUBPOL 662

PUBPOL 662.001: Global Corporate Social Responsibility

Marina Whitman

Course will examine the origins of the concept of CSR its meaning and motivations, and the shareholder-stakeholder controversy, where the latter include employees, communities (now defined globally) and, most recently, the global...

PUBPOL 674

PUBPOL 674.001: Economic and Social Policies in a Selected Emerging Market Economy

Alan Deardorff

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...

PUBPOL 580

PUBPOL 580.001: Values, Ethics, and Public Policy

David Thacher

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...

PUBPOL 750

PUBPOL 750.202: Topics: Policy & Management in the Non-Profit Sector

Neel Hajra

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

PUBPOL 650

PUBPOL 650.001: Introduction to Science and Technology Policy Analysis

Joy Rohde

Drawing on an interdisciplinary social science literature, this course introduces theories and methodologies for science and technology policy analysis and familiarizes students with the landscape of science and technology policymaking in the US...

PUBPOL 766

PUBPOL 766.001: Issues in U.S. National Security

Melvyn Levitsky

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...

PUBPOL 556

PUBPOL 556.001: Macroeconomics

John Leahy

This course teaches students the basic tools of macroeconomics and how to apply them to real world economic...

PUBPOL 810

PUBPOL 810.001: PhD Policy Research Seminar

Brian Jacob

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

PUBPOL 750

PUBPOL 750: The Policy Implications of Detroit’s Grand Bargain

A look at the unique deal that settled Detroit's municipal...

PUBPOL 750

PUBPOL 750: Topics: The Policymaking Process: How Health Care Reform was Enacted

This course will focus on the role of different actors? perspectives in the policy...

PUBPOL 475

PUBPOL 475: The Policy Implications of Detroit’s Grand Bargain

A look at the unique deal that settled Detroit's municipal...

PUBPOL 510

PUBPOL 510.003: The Politics of Public Policy

Susan Waltz

This is a core course restricted to Ford School students...

PUBPOL 320

PUBPOL 320.001: Politics, Political Institutions, and Public Policy

Charles Shipan

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

PUBPOL 750

PUBPOL 750.101: Topics: Contemporary Public Policy Formation

The class deals with the political, practical and substantive facets of policy making. We do this by analyzing the passage - and sometimes failure - of signature pieces of federal legislation that imposed massive change on the...

PUBPOL 750

PUBPOL 750.308: Topics: Psychology of Climate Change

Kaitlin Raimi

Climate change often feels like a problem that our brains have been hardwired to ignore. Climate change is abstract and complex, making it hard for non-scientists (including policy-makers) to...

PUBPOL 201

PUBPOL 201.001: Systematic Thinking: Problems of the Day

Paul Courant

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...

PUBPOL 475

PUBPOL 475.101: Topics: Contemporary Public Policy Formation

PUBPOL 475

PUBPOL 475.306: Topics:Michigan Politics & Policy

Debra Horner

This course is designed to familiarize students with the Michigan political system and learn about current policy issues at play both statewide and in local...