This is a core course restricted to Ford School students only
This section of 510 aims to help you better understand policy analysis and the political environment within a context of American domestic politics at the national level.
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 writing.
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 law.
This 4-credit course will provide an introduction to the fundamentals of evaluation research design and methods as applied to public policies and programs.
No metropolis played a greater role in shaping the Twentieth Century world than did Detroit. This course focuses upon the history and future of Detroit emphasizing the private and governmental policies that now seek to revitalize the city.
Detroit was the nation's most important city in the Twentieth Century because of the 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 nation.
Researchers who study successful people agree on the following: Your IQ and cognitive intelligence are at best moderate predictors of your success in life.
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 States.
Since the 2008 financial crisis, developed countries have suffered high unemployment and slow growth. What are options for policymakers in this environment?
This new half-semester course takes its inspiration from Ta-Nehisi Coates' "The Case for Reparations." In his essay, Coates employs a mix of writing modes–the statistical and the anecdotal, as well as the journalistic and even the biblical–in orde
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,
Since the 2008 financial crisis, developed countries have suffered high unemployment and slow growth. What are options for policymakers in this environment?
The workforce of the 21st century is increasingly diverse. Productive managers cannot afford to ignore this diversity, and can benefit greatly from it.
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 issue.
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 programs.
The Integrated Policy Exercise provides students with a week long opportunity to work intensively on a policy issue. The course is held the first week in January.
This course aims to teach students how to use and conduct benefit-cost analysis. To do this, students must possess the ability to model economic behavior in the real world.
