The Ford School defines leadership as the behavioral process of having a positive influence on others, organizations and communications. This short course will meet 4 times, during which students will have the opportunity to take 1 or 2...
Taught by Katherine (Kat) Walsh, director of student engagement and director of diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives, U-M Office of University Development...
This course draws on advances in social science and public administration to introduce you to tools and approaches for understanding and leading innovation in the public...
This course covers descriptive statistics, probability theory, probability distributions (normal, binomial, Poisson, exponential), sampling distributions, confidence intervals, and hypothesis...
Is Congress too partisan? Can Congress fulfill its legislative and oversight functions? Do the executive and judicial branches effectively control public policy...
This is a professional skills workshop that will be required for students enrolled in the Applied Policy Seminar (APS, PP578) and open to other MPP/ Master's student. To be offered each semester, concurrent with the...
Throughout this course we will explore the key characteristics of and tensions related to intergovernmental agreements, examining how various forces shape the nature and extent of...
A bi-weekly one-credit seminar that introduces students to applied policy research. For students in the Ford School Joint Ph.D. program.
Students will meet on the following dates: 9/7, 9/21, 10/5, 10/19, 11/2, 11/16,...
Researchers who study successful people agree on the following: Your IQ and cognitive intelligence are at best moderate predictors of your success in...
Part of successful management is knowing how employees, managers, citizens, and other stakeholders think and feel about organizations in general, about particular policies, and about new initiatives and...
The focus of this graduate seminar in public management is leadership and policy issues related to diversity and inclusion efforts in higher education, with a particular focus on public universities in the United...
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...
Understand how to develop a fundraising strategy that will provide an organization with the resources needed to fulfill its mission and address a pressing social...
A bi-weekly one-credit seminar that introduces students to applied policy research. For students in the Ford School Joint Ph.D. program.
Students will meet on the following dates:
Open to PhD students...
This is a course for students interested in social justice and equality, social justice movements, anti-democratic movements and the intersections of public leadership, public policy, and the rule of law in the context of the temporal evolution...
This course covers descriptive statistics, probability theory, probability distributions (normal, binomial, Poisson, exponential), sampling distributions, confidence intervals, and hypothesis...
This is a short introductory course module in facilitating complex and difficult dialogic moments of engagement in the social, professional and institutional spheres of the public...
