Winter 2010

This course is designed to introduce the students to what public managers do and to help provide the students with perspectives and opportunities for practice that will help them become effective public...

This introduction to program evaluation and multiple regression analysis trains students to critically consume empirical studies and conduct their own empirical...

This is a year-long course devoted to developing an internet-based course to promote quantitative social science in South...

There is no policy without victory. More precisely, well-planned and well-executed political campaigns win elections and make governing...

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

This is a Special Topics course and the topic may change each term. In Winter 2010 this course will be taught by Rowan...

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

The aim of this lecture course is to introduce students to the manner in which science and technology issues both shape and are shaped by public...

his course will examine how the U.S. and other international actors seek to help pacify, stabilize, and rebuild societies embroiled or emerging from...

This course will investigate the various means, both direct and indirect, through which the mass media and public opinion can influence the foreign policy making...

This course seeks to deepen students’ understanding of the form and function of cities through the use of economic models and use those models to understand the likely effects of policies often applied to urban areas across several contexts...

This course will deal primarily with the Legislative Branch of Government at both the State and Federal levels. Legislative strategies and the possible outcomes of those strategies will be...

This course explores the use of experiments and quasi-experiments in education...