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PUBPOL 495

PUBPOL 495.001: Policy Seminar: Apology, Reconcile, Reparations & PP

Yazier Henry

PUBPOL 495 is open to students in the Public Policy BA program, by permission...

PUBPOL 716

PUBPOL 716.001: Introduction to Chinese Policy

Ann Chih Lin

This first portion of the course, held in Ann Arbor, will introduce students to China and its policy and economic environments. Drawing on the expertise of Ford School faculty and outside...

PUBPOL 320

PUBPOL 320.001: Politics, Political Institutions, and Public Policy

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

PUBPOL 534

PUBPOL 534.001: Economics of Developing Countries

Dean Yang

This course surveys what we do and don't know about economic growth and poverty alleviation in developing countries. We begin by discussing alternative perspectives on the goals of...

PUBPOL 750

PUBPOL 750.006: Topics: International Politics of Poverty

Susan Waltz

This course will cover controversies and conundrums in international development...

PUBPOL 585

PUBPOL 585: Political Environment of Policymaking

Shobita Parthasarathy

This course focuses on the political environment within which policy analysis takes...

PubPol 716-002

PubPol 716-002: Introduction to Chinese Policy Tour

In the second portion of the course, Ford School students will travel to Beijing, China for 12 days (depart May 1, 2011, return May 13, 2011) to learn more about China through meetings with business and government leaders, sessions with Renmin...

PUBPOL 731

PUBPOL 731: Distance Learning Project for Quantitative Social Science in South Africa

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

PUBPOL 696

PUBPOL 696: Labor Markets and Public Policy Around the World

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...

PubPol 750

PubPol 750.002: Topics: U.S. Diplomacy in the Indo-Pacific

Daniel Shields

The course will examine the past, present, and future of diplomatic interactions between the United States and the other nations of the Indo-Pacific region, starting with the 1951 signing of the Treaty of San Francisco that ended the state of war...

PUBPOL 585-002

PUBPOL 585-002: Political Environment of Policymaking

Shobita Parthasarathy

This course focuses on the political environment within which policy analysis takes...

PUBPOL 731

PUBPOL 731: Distance Learning Project for Quantitative Social Science in South Africa

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

PUBPOL 542

PUBPOL 542: International Financial Policy

This course provides an overview of international financial economics, developing analytic tools and concepts that can be used to analyze world economic policy...

PUBPOL 585

PUBPOL 585: Political Environment of Policymaking

Shobita Parthasarathy

This course focuses on the political environment within which policy analysis takes...

PUBPOL 731

PUBPOL 731: Distance Learning Project for Quantitative Social Science in South Africa

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

PUBPOL 533

PUBPOL 533: Public Health in Developing Countries

This course will focus on public health in the developing world from the perspective of the social sciences, drawing on economics, demography, political science and...

PUBPOL 534

PUBPOL 534: The Economics of Developing Countries

Alan Deardorff

This course surveys what we do and don't know about economic growth and poverty alleviation in developing countries. We begin by discussing alternative perspectives on the goals of...

PUBPOL 731

PUBPOL 731: Distance Learning Project for Quantitative Social Science in South Africa

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

PUBPOL 542

PUBPOL 542: International Financial Policy

Kathryn Dominguez

This course provides an overview of international financial economics, developing analytic tools and concepts that can be used to analyze world economic policy...

PUBPOL 759

PUBPOL 759: Genetics and Biotechnology Policy

Shobita Parthasarathy

As one of the hottest areas of scientific and technological development today, genetics and biotechnology are raising a variety of difficult and controversial policy...

PUBPOL 759

PUBPOL 759: Genetics and Biotechnology Policy

Shobita Parthasarathy

As one of the hottest areas of scientific and technological development today, genetics and biotechnology are raising a variety of difficult and controversial policy...

PUBPOL 534

PUBPOL 534: The Economics of Developing Countries

Dean Yang

This course surveys what we do and don't know about economic growth and poverty alleviation in developing countries. We begin by discussing alternative perspectives on the goals of...

PUBPOL 533

PUBPOL 533: Public Health in Developing Countries

This course will focus on public health policy primarily in the developing world. We will begin by reviewing epidemiological and demographic evidence on the leading causes of mortality and morbidity...

PUBPOL 534

PUBPOL 534: The Economics of Developing Countries

Dean Yang

This course surveys what we do and don't know about economic growth and poverty alleviation in developing countries. We begin by discussing alternative perspectives on the goals of...

PUBPOL 542

PUBPOL 542: International Financial Policy

Kathryn Dominguez

This course provides an overview of international financial economics, developing analytic tools and concepts that can be used to analyze world economic policy...

PUBPOL 676

PUBPOL 676: International Politics of Poverty and Development

Susan Waltz

This course examines alternative approaches to the study of poverty and development. Attention is directed primarily to problems confronted in the global South, with some comparative perspective on Western industrialized...

PUBPOL 534

PUBPOL 534: The Economics of Developing Countries

Dean Yang

This course surveys what we do and don't know about economic growth and poverty alleviation in developing countries. We begin by discussing alternative perspectives on the goals of...

PUBPOL 542

PUBPOL 542: International Financial Policy

Kathryn Dominguez

This course provides an overview of international financial economics, developing analytic tools and concepts that can be used to analyze world economic policy...

PUBPOL 680

PUBPOL 680: Globalization and Public Policy

Marina Whitman

This course examines how globalization affects social and economic policymaking within and between countries and how policies can be designed to both capitalize on the new opportunities created by globalization and ameliorate its most painful...

PUBPOL 534

PUBPOL 534: The Economics of Developing Countries

Dean Yang

This course surveys what we do and don't know about economic growth and poverty alleviation in developing countries. We begin by discussing alternative perspectives on the goals of...