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PUBPOL 210

PUBPOL 210.001: Hlt&Society:Intro PH

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 250

PUBPOL 250.001: SocialSystems&Energy

The goal of this course is to provide a framework for interpreting public discourse on energy...

PUBPOL 312

PUBPOL 312.001: Env Politics&Policy

Barry Rabe

This course is an advanced offering on environmental politics and the environmental policy-making...

PUBPOL 320

PUBPOL 320.001: Politics & Pub Pol

Charles Shipan

This course prepares students to understand the political and institutional environment within which public policy is formulated and...

PUBPOL 330

PUBPOL 330.001: Microeconomics

Betsey Stevenson

This is a core course restricted to Ford School students...

PUBPOL 330

PUBPOL 330.002: Microeconomics

Betsey Stevenson

This is a core course restricted to Ford School students...

PUBPOL 466

PUBPOL 466.001: The History and Future of Detroit

Walter Reynolds Farley

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...

PUBPOL 626

PUBPOL 626.001: The History and Future of Detroit

Walter Reynolds Farley

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...

PUBPOL 750

PUBPOL 750.506: Topics: Federal Budget Process

Betsey Stevenson

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PUBPOL 587

PUBPOL 587.102: Public Management

Barry Rabe

All sections of public management emphasize common themes such as performance management, strategic planning, and inter-institutional network...

PUBPOL 587

PUBPOL 587.201: Public Management: Survey Design for Organizations

Kaitlin Raimi

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...

PUBPOL 587

PUBPOL 587.203: Public Management: Working in Diverse Organizations

Kaitlin Raimi

The workforce of the 21st century is increasingly diverse. Productive managers cannot afford to ignore this diversity, and can benefit greatly from...

PUBPOL 716

PUBPOL 716.001: Introduction to Chinese Policy

Ann Chih Lin

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 750

PUBPOL 750.507: Topics: Storytelling in Policy Writing: People & Numbers

Alex Ralph

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...

PUBPOL 475

PUBPOL 475.202: Topics: Lobbying Government Officials

Richard Hall

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PUBPOL 413

PUBPOL 413.001: Professional Development

The goal of this course is to enhance the students' ability to bring about the individual and organizational changes they want to...

PUBPOL 735

PUBPOL 735.001: Professional Development

Researchers who study successful people agree on the following: Your IQ and cognitive intelligence are at best moderate predictors of your success in...

PUBPOL 638

PUBPOL 638.001: Integrated Policy Exercise

Elisabeth Gerber

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...

PUBPOL 491

PUBPOL 491.001: MIW Res Sem

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PUBPOL 495

PUBPOL 495.002: Policy Seminar: Utopianism

"Utopia" in Greek means both "good place" and "no place"–a paradise that cannot be realized, existing only in our imaginations. This is why the term when used today is often meant pejoratively, to indicate that a plan is...

PUBPOL 495

PUBPOL 495.001: Policy Seminar: US Social Policy

Natasha Pilkauskas

US Social Policy will provide students with an understanding of state and federal social welfare policies and the impact they have on special populations, particularly those in...

PUBPOL 821

PUBPOL 821.001: Advanced Program Evaluation

Public Policy 821 is intended as a complement (and not a substitute) for Applied Econometrics 675 and similar courses in other schools and...

PUBPOL 810

PUBPOL 810.001: PhD Policy Research Seminar

Brian Jacob

A bi-weekly one-credit seminar that introduces students to applied policy research. For students in the Ford School Joint Ph.D....

PUBPOL 571

PUBPOL 571.001: Applied Econometrics

This course is an introduction to econometric methods and their use in policy...

PUBPOL 713

PUBPOL 713.001: Causal Inference in Education Policy Research: Postsecondary

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...

PUBPOL 423

PUBPOL 423.001: Political Campaign Strategy 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 468

PUBPOL 468.001: Oil & Gas Policy in the US

Daniel Raimi

Hydraulic fracturing and horizontal drilling have made the United States the world's largest producer of oil and natural gas. What does that mean for the domestic economy, energy prices, foreign policy, climate change, and local...

PUBPOL 558

PUBPOL 558.003: Microeconomics B: Economic Decision-Making in depth

Dean Yang

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...

PUBPOL 558

PUBPOL 558.001: Microeconomics B: Economic Decision-Making

A continuation of PubPol 555, this course focuses on microeconomic concepts relevant to policy analysis that are not covered in the previous...

PUBPOL 766

PUBPOL 766.001: Issues in U.S. National Security

Melvyn Levitsky

This course concentrates on the foreign policy aspects of U.S. National Security. We will study the Cold War preface to current policy as well as broad issues of substance and process affecting national security...