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PUBPOL 556

PUBPOL 556: Macroeconomics

Kathryn Dominguez

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

PUBPOL 578

PUBPOL 578: Applied Policy Seminar

The Applied Policy Seminar (APS) (now called Strategic Public Policy Consulting or SPPC) is an opportunity for students to do public sector consulting work for state and local governments and community development organizations in Ann Arbor,...

PUBPOL 580.002

PUBPOL 580.002: Values, Ethics, and Public Policy

Megan Tompkins-Stange

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 587

PUBPOL 587: Public Management

Barry Rabe

All three sections of 587 emphasize common themes such as performance management, strategic planning, and inter-institutional network...

PubPol 625

PubPol 625: The Legislative Branch: Structure and Current Issues

John Schwarz

This course will deal primarily with the Legislative Branch of Government at both the State and Federal levels. Legislative strategies and the possible outcomes of those strategies will be...

PubPol 626

PubPol 626: The History and Future of Detroit

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 650

PUBPOL 650: Introduction to Science and Technology Policy Analysis

Shobita Parthasarathy

As it exposes students to the landscape of science and technology policymaking in the US and abroad, this course introduces theories and methodologies for science and technology policy analysis, with literature drawn from a range of disciplines,...

PUBPOL 638

PUBPOL 638: Integrated Policy Exercise

Marina Whitman

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 662

PubPol 662: 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 671

PUBPOL 671: Policy and Management in the Nonprofit 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 732

PUBPOL 732: Public Policy in Post-Secondary Education

In the first part of the course you will be introduced to some of the analytic frameworks and conceptual theories used to study American public policy making and you will learn how these models were applied to a classic public policy...

PUBPOL 756

PUBPOL 756: Local Government, Opportunity for Activism

John Hieftje

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...

PUBPOL 763

PUBPOL 763: GLobal Issues: Drugs, Crime, and Terrorism

Melvyn Levitsky

This course will explore the global issues of illegal drugs, crime and terrorism. Course content emphasizes policy options, formulation and implementation, and the tools and skills needed to produce effective recommendations for decision...

PUBPOL 768

PUBPOL 768: Efforts at Health Care Reform in the US

Students will critically examine successes and failures in health care reform in the United States over the last...

PUBPOL 810

PUBPOL 810: Policy Research Seminar

Mary Corcoran

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

PubPol 830

PubPol 830: Immersion in Research

Alan Deardorff

This course is designed to immerse students in a major research project of their own design. By the end of the two-semester course, students will be required to produce a polished paper, which can later be incorporated into their...

PubPol 475.002

PubPol 475.002: Topics: Utopianism and Public Policy

“Utopia” in Greek means both “good place” and “no place”—a paradise existing only in our imaginations. But no matter how theoretical or fanciful utopias may be, people still try to implement them, often with tragic...

PubPol 510.002

PubPol 510.002: The Politics of Public Policy

Ann Chih Lin

Note: PubPol 510 combines and replaces content previously offered in PubPol 585 and 560. PubPol 510 is now the required core politics...

PUBPOL 563/NRE686/HMP686

PUBPOL 563/NRE686/HMP686: Politics of Environmental Regulation

Barry Rabe

This course will consider the capacity of North American political institutions to shape effective environmental protection policies, devoting primary emphasis to the United States but also examining Canada and...

PubPol 662

PubPol 662: Global Corporate Social Responsibility

Marina Whitman

PubPol 750.002&750.003

PubPol 750.002&750.003: Topics: Detroit Policy Workshop

The course will focus on urban policy and economic development issues in the Detroit metropolitan...

PubPol 750.005

PubPol 750.005: Topics: Nonprofit Law and Policy

Over the past several decades, the nonprofit sector has grown dramatically in wealth, size, and...

PUBPOL 768

PUBPOL 768: Efforts at Health Care Reform in the US

Students will critically examine successes and failures in health care reform in the United States over the last...

PubPol 830

PubPol 830: Immersion in Research

Alan Deardorff

PUBPOL 201

PUBPOL 201: Systematic Thinking About The 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 320

PUBPOL 320: Politics, Political Institutions, and Public Policy

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

PUBPOL 422

PUBPOL 422: Congress and State Legislatures: Effective or Outmoded?

John Schwarz

Is Congress too partisan? Can Congress fulfill its legislative and oversight functions? Do the executive and judicial branches effectively control public policy formulation? Have the State Legislatures become the true "laboratories of...

PubPol 510.001

PubPol 510.001: The Politics of Public Policy

Richard Hall

Note: PubPol 510 combines and replaces content previously offered in PubPol 585 and 560. PubPol 510 is now the required core politics...

PUBPOL 580

PUBPOL 580: Values, Ethics, and Public Policy

John Chamberlin

PubPol 625

PubPol 625: The Legislative Branch: Structure and Current Issues

John Schwarz

This course will deal primarily with the Legislative Branch of Government at both the State and Federal levels. Legislative strategies and the possible outcomes of those strategies will be...