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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 475

PUBPOL 475.303: Topics: Comparative Law and Policy

Valenta Kabo

This class provides a foundational understanding of comparative law and selected foreign legal systems. The first part of the course is devoted to understanding the different families of...

PUBPOL 750

PUBPOL 750.303: Topics: Comparative Law and Policy

Valenta Kabo

This class provides a foundational understanding of comparative law and selected foreign legal systems. The first part of the course is devoted to understanding the different families of...

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 717

PUBPOL 717.001: Social Activism, Democracy, and Globalization from the Perspective of the Global South

Yazier Henry

How are the inherent and intersecting relations of power including inherent structures of dominance related to the experience of violence, oppression and resistance textured into the context of politics and policy...

PUBPOL 475

PUBPOL 475: Global Financial Markets, Crises, and Policies

Kathryn Dominguez

Global financial markets provide both opportunities and risks for macroeconomic policymakers. In this course we will explore the role of financial markets in economic development, the causes and consequences of financial crises, whether and...

PUBPOL 750

PUBPOL 750: Global Financial Markets, Crises, and Policies

Kathryn Dominguez

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 224

PUBPOL 224.001: Nuclear Proliferation

This course presents a global perspective on the history and politics of nuclear...

PUBPOL 675

PUBPOL 675.001: Human Rights & International Policy

Susan Waltz

This course reviews the international political and legal framework established over the past fifty years to protect human...

PUBPOL 763

PUBPOL 763.001: Global Issues: Drugs, Crime and Terrorism

Melvyn Levitsky

Students will explore the global issues of illegal drugs, and international drug trafficking, crime and...

PUBPOL 541

PUBPOL 541.001: International Trade Policy

Alan Deardorff

This course examines the policy issues of international trade, including trade in both goods and services and also international flows of direct investment and...

PUBPOL 496

PUBPOL 496.001: Senior Colloquium

Elisabeth Gerber

The Senior Colloquium will follow the debate that ensues from the release of the Report of the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform on December...

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 674

PUBPOL 674.002: Economic and Social Policies in a Selected Emerging Market Economy

Susan Waltz

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 674

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

Susan Waltz

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 542

PUBPOL 542.001: 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 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 580

PUBPOL 580.001: Values, Ethics, and Public Policy

PUBPOL 650

PUBPOL 650.001: Introduction to Science and Technology Policy Analysis

Joy Rohde

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 751

PUBPOL 751.002: China's Economic Reforms

China's reform and opening-up has been a great event in the world in the past more than two...

PubPol 621

PubPol 621: Peacebuilding: Law, Diplomacy, and the Transition from Conflict

This course will examine how the U.S. and other international actors seek to help pacify, stabilize, and rebuild societies embroiled or emerging from...

PUBPOL 580

PUBPOL 580.001: Values, Ethics, and Public Policy

Joy Rohde

PUBPOL 717

PUBPOL 717.001: Social Activism, Democracy, and Globalization from the Perspective of the Global South

Yazier Henry

PUBPOL 750

PUBPOL 750.002: Topics: Future of the American Research University

In memoriam: James Duderstadt

Although the American research university serves as a key source of basic research, advanced education, and infrastructure critical to the nation's welfare, it faces many challenges such as shifting public policies, changing demographics,...

PUBPOL 751

PUBPOL 751.001: Chinese Foreign Policy

This part of the course introduces students to continuity and change in China's foreign policy, focusing on the reform...

PUBPOL 495

PUBPOL 495.004: Topics: Comparative Law and Policy

Valenta Kabo

Because law is one of the means through which policies are enacted, understanding the different structures of legal systems is a necessary for understanding policy promulgation in different...

PUBPOL 541

PUBPOL 541.001: International Trade Policy

Alan Deardorff

This course examines the policy issues of international trade, including trade in both goods and services and also international flows of direct investment and...

PUBPOL 510

PUBPOL 510.004: The Politics of Public Policy

Susan Waltz

This section of 510 focuses on international policy issues and introduces students to the dynamics of global politics and international...

PUBPOL 510

PUBPOL 510.002: The Politics of Public Policy

Shobita Parthasarathy

This section of 510 focuses on political strategy and policy processes in comparative...