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PUBPOL 650

PUBPOL 650: 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 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 421

PUBPOL 421: Religion, Politics, & Public Policy

Ann Chih Lin

This course will examine the sometimes supportive, sometimes antagonistic relationship between religion and the...

PUBPOL 750-001

PUBPOL 750-001: Topics in Public Policy: The Legislative Branch, Structure & Current Issues

(Description will be available soon.) Joe Schwarz will teach this class in Winter...

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 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 difference in the way that we...

PUBPOL 320

PUBPOL 320: Politics, Political Institutions, and Public Policy

Richard Hall

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?

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 560

PUBPOL 560: Foreign Policy and the Management of International Relations

Susan Waltz

This course examines alternative institutions and strategies through which nations articulate, either cooperatively or competitively, their foreign policy...

PUBPOL 475.002

PUBPOL 475.002: Topics: The Politics of Identity

Mara Ostfeld

Race, gender, religion, sexuality and other social identities permeate the development and administration of American public policy. These identities are just as powerful of a tool in efforts to reduce social and economic disparities...

PUBPOL 750.005

PUBPOL 750.005: New:Topics: Working in an Embassy

Meets second 7...

PUBPOL 624

PUBPOL 624: Media, Public Opinion, and Foreign Policy

This course will investigate the various means, both direct and indirect, through which the mass media and public opinion can influence the foreign policy making...

PUBPOL 510.001

PUBPOL 510.001: The Politics of Public Policy

Ann Chih Lin

This section of 510 follows the policymaking process after legislators claim credit and the TV cameras shut down: the work of trying to implement and interpret the...

PUBPOL 580

PUBPOL 580: 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 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 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 to learn more about China through meetings with business and government leaders, sessions with Renmin faculty, and exploration of Chinese cultural...

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 674

PUBPOL 674: Economic and Social Policies in a Selected Emerging Market Economy

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 425

PubPol 425: Politics and Policies at the State Level: Reinventing Michigan

States enjoy enormous away over education, transportation, health care, and other policies. Politicians and interest groups that shape decisions differ in many respects to those active at the federal and local...

PUBPOL 625

PUBPOL 625: The Legislative Branch: Structure and Current Issues

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 560

PUBPOL 560: Foreign Policy and the Management of International Relations

Susan Waltz

Foreign Policy and the Management of International Relations This course examines alternative institutions and strategies through which nations articulate, either cooperatively or competitively, their foreign policy...

PUBPOL 475.002

PUBPOL 475.002: Topics: The Politics of Identity

Mara Ostfeld

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PUBPOL 456

PUBPOL 456: Local Government, Opportunity for Activism

PUBPOL 423

PUBPOL 423: Political Campaign Strategies and Tactics

Gerald Hills

There is no policy without victory. More precisely, well-planned and well-executed political campaigns win elections and make governing...

PUBPOL 475.004

PUBPOL 475.004: Utopianism & 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 628/Educ 628

PubPol 628/Educ 628: Democracy and Education

David Cohen

Democracy and Education --- 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...

PubPol 750.005

PubPol 750.005: Topics: Civil Rights Policy in the U.S.

Ann Chih Lin

This course explores various approaches to civil rights policy, including efforts to prevent discrimination, to "level the playing field," to create equality, and to provide...

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 475.002

PubPol 475.002: Topics: Global Issues: Drugs, Crime, and Terrorism

Melvyn Levitsky

Students will explore the global issues of illegal drugs and drug trafficking, international crime and terrorism. Course content emphasizes the study of organizations and networks, policy formulation and implementation, national and...

PubPol 780

PubPol 780: Topics in Policymaking: Trade agreements and negotiations as a policy instrument

International trade policy can influence a country´s economic performance. Many countries have entered agreements, legally binding and more enforceable than other international law, by which they reciprocally commit their trade policies…and...