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PUBPOL 456

PUBPOL 456: Local Government, Opportunity for Activism

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 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 580

PUBPOL 580: Values, Ethics, and Public Policy

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 716-001

PubPol 716-001: Introduction to Chinese Policy

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 guests, each class will focus on a different policy...
PubPol 475-001

PubPol 475-001: Topics: The U.S. Presidency

The President is at the center of almost every major policy enacted by the government. But how each president chooses to exercise that power and utilize their office is very...
PUBPOL 692

PUBPOL 692: Thinking About Crime

David Thacher
As Chief of the New York City Police Department, William Bratton was fond of saying that the crime rate has the same meaning for a police department as profits have for a business--that the crime rate is the bottom line of...
PubPol 628/Educ 628

PubPol 628/Educ 628: Democracy and Education

David Cohen
When Americans write about democracy and education, they typically write about the constructive effects that education can have for democracy by improving future citizens' knowledge, political judgment, capacity for independent thought, and by...
PUBPOL 580-002

PUBPOL 580-002: Values, Ethics, and Public Policy

Yazier Henry
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 756

PUBPOL 756: Local Government, Opportunity for Activism

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 717

PUBPOL 717: Humanising History

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 587

PUBPOL 587: Public Management

David Thacher
This course is designed to introduce the students to what public managers do and to help provide the students with perspectives and opportunities for practice that will help them become effective public...