This course considers the range of state and local policies that impact renewable energy development, understanding how these policies interact, and understanding the politics at play behind their adoption. It covers not just on policies...
This course focuses on rigorous evaluation of policies and interventions related to postsecondary education. Evaluations will be discussed in the context of the current and historical...
Applied Policy Seminar (APS) (now called Strategic Public Policy Consulting or SPPC) is an opportunity for students to conduct a faculty-supervised consulting project for a public, private, or non-profit sector policy organization at the...
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...
This course introduces students to multiple regression analysis and other tools of causal inference and program evaluation. The course will focus on applying these tools to real data on various policy...
**This course can be taken together with Professor Thacher’s section of 587 during the second half of the semester, OR it can be taken as a stand-alone half semester...
This course is an introduction to programming in the R statistical language. R is a flexible, open-source statistics platform which has gained broad adoption in a variety of...
This course teaches the norms of policy writing to 1st year policy students. Through small workshops, students will analyze approaches to different types of policy...
What are smart cities? What makes them smart? Are they equitable and accessible? The aim of this hands-on applied policy course is to introduce students to smart cities and the rapidly evolving mobility...
Federal election spending from all sources has doubled over the last twenty years and the 2018 election continued the trend. Campaign spending in the midterms exceeded $5 billion for the first time, much of it coming...
This course teaches the norms of policy writing to 1st year policy students. Through small workshops, students will analyze approaches to different types of policy...
This course provides an overview of international financial economics, developing analytic tools and concepts that can be used to analyze world economic policy...
Detroit was the nation's most important city in the Twentieth Century because of the auto industry, the emergence of the blue collar middle class and development of the New Deal. Now it is the most negatively stereotyped city in the...
