Fall 2008

PUBPOL 456

PUBPOL 456: Local Government, Opportunity for Activism

John Hieftje

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 747-001/ECON 739-

PUBPOL 747-001/ECON 739-: International Macro/Financial Problems and Policies

This is the first of two separate half-term seminars, which may be taken together or separately. Recent topics have included the determinants of the...

PUBPOL 747-002/ECON 739-

PUBPOL 747-002/ECON 739-: Issues and Options for Multilateral, Regional, and Bilateral Trade Liberalization

This is the second of two separate half-term seminars, which may be taken together or...

PUBPOL 751-001

PUBPOL 751-001: Chinese Foreign Policy

This part of the course introduces students to continuity and change in China's foreign policy, focusing on the reform...

PUBPOL 751-002

PUBPOL 751-002: China's Economic Reforms

China's reform and opening-up has been a great event in the world in the past more than two...

PUBPOL 756

PUBPOL 756: Local Government, Opportunity for Activism

John Hieftje

PUBPOL 766

PUBPOL 766: 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...

PUBPOL 810

PUBPOL 810: Policy Research Seminar

James House

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

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 495-001

PUBPOL 495-001: Policy Seminar: International Security

Robert Axelrod

Policy seminars are open only to undergraduates enrolled in the Ford School. These small, interdisciplinary courses will focus on particular public policy issues as reflected in the title of the...

PUBPOL 495-002

PUBPOL 495-002: Policy Seminar: Principles & Policy Realities of Health Care Reform

Policy seminars are open only to undergraduates enrolled in the Ford School. These small, interdisciplinary courses will focus on particular public policy issues as reflected in the title of the...

PUBPOL 495-003

PUBPOL 495-003: Policy Seminar: Human Rights and Public Policy

Susan Waltz

Policy seminars are open only to undergraduates enrolled in the Ford School. These small, interdisciplinary courses will focus on particular public policy issues as reflected in the title of the...

PUBPOL 736/POLSCI 736

PUBPOL 736/POLSCI 736: Poverty & Inequality

Mary Corcoran

This course analyzes the conditions and causes of poverty within the United States and the variety of economic, social, and political responses to...

PUBPOL 677

PUBPOL 677: Immigration Policy

Ann Chih Lin

Immigration is a phenomenon that touches upon every aspect of American society, from economic growth to neighborhood institutions to national...

PUBPOL 717

PUBPOL 717: Humanising History

Yazier Henry

How do individuals, communities and nations remember and represent the past? How is the relationship between history, memory and forgetting displaced through the very forms of socio-cultural production that inscribe...

PUBPOL 744

PUBPOL 744: Economics of the Public Sector

This is a course on how economists think about government revenue and government expenditures – how governments raise and spend public money. Public Finance is a subfield of...

PUBPOL 780-001

PUBPOL 780-001: Topics in Policymaking: Economic Development Issues in Latin America

Instructor: Alberto...

PUBPOL 780-002

PUBPOL 780-002: Topics in Policymaking: Negotiation of International Trade Agreements

International trade agreements are proliferating. By the end of the decade, there will be at least 400 such instruments in place...

PUBPOL 571/ECON 571

PUBPOL 571/ECON 571: Applied Econometrics

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

PUBPOL 652/UP 652

PUBPOL 652/UP 652: Strategic Thinking for Affordable Housing

David Thacher

This seminar develops a framework for crafting intelligent affordable housing strategies, developed within the context of a broader community development...

PUBPOL 647

PUBPOL 647: Data Analysis Using Excel I

This course will provide students with a practical hands-on introduction to data analysis using Microsoft...

PUBPOL 648

PUBPOL 648: Data Analysis Using Excel II

This course will provide students with a practical hands-on instruction in advanced data analysis techniques using Microsoft...

PUBPOL 720/SI 621

PUBPOL 720/SI 621: Ethics, Values & Information Dilemmas

The information revolution and the expanding use of information technology within all organizations, profit and non-profit, public and private, has created an environment in which access to massive quantities of information, at startling speeds,...

PUBPOL 732

PUBPOL 732: Public Policy in Post-Secondary Education

This course examines contemporary higher education public policy issues and provides a general introduction to the policymaking process in the United...

PUBPOL 555

PUBPOL 555: Microeconomics A

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 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 330

PUBPOL 330: Microeconomics for Public Policy

Dean Yang

This course develops students' abilities to use microeconomic analysis to further our understanding of public...

PUBPOL 422

PUBPOL 422: Congress and State Legislatures: Effective or Outmoded?

John Schwarz

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 500/SNRE 575

PUBPOL 500/SNRE 575: Thinking Analytically for Policy and Decision

The course will develop the skills of using analytic methods and models to understand real decisions and policy issues, drawn from the realms of natural resource management, public policy, business strategy, politics, negotiations, and...

PUBPOL 513

PUBPOL 513: 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...