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PUBPOL 555

PUBPOL 555.001: Microeconomics A

Justin Wolfers
This course begins a two-term sequence designed to provide students with an understanding of the economic implications of public policies and with analytic tools useful in system design and policy...
PUBPOL 578

PUBPOL 578.001: Applied Policy Seminar

Elisabeth Gerber
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 local,...
PUBPOL 475

PUBPOL 475.306: Topics in Public Policy

Catherine Hausman
This course focuses on the economics of energy and environmental regulations in the United States.  It is designed to give students practical experience in making connections between intermediate microeconomic concepts and real-world...
PUBPOL 201

PUBPOL 201.001: Systematic Thinking

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 significant difference in the way...
PUBPOL 210

PUBPOL 210.001: Health & Society

This course is intended to serve as an introduction to the major issues of health and health care in the United States – what they are, what determines them, and how they can be altered. In so doing, the course surveys the field of public...
PUBPOL 466

PUBPOL 466.001: The History and Future of Detroit

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...
PUBPOL 587

PUBPOL 587.002: Public Management

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...
PUBPOL 510

PUBPOL 510.001: The Politics of Public Policy

Valenta Kabo
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...
PUBPOL 513

PUBPOL 513.001: Calculus

Carl Simon
This course is designed specifically to provide students in all degree programs at the Ford School with the fundamental mathematical tools necessary for their subsequent...