This course is a seminar on how our identities shape and are shaped by political institutions, with a particular emphasis placed on how this interplay affects the distribution of social, political and economic...
The primary purpose of this seminar course is to develop the tools needed to assess the feasibility, potential impact, unintended consequences and legal/ethical ramifications of novel policies designed to improve population health and reduce...
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...
A semester-long course based on simulations and discussions to practice the skills of diplomacy in the modern world by analyzing events and their players. Each class should involve about 45 minutes of role playing or presentations, with the...
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...
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...
This is a course for students interested in social justice and equality, social justice movements, anti-democratic movements and the intersections of public leadership, public policy, and the rule of law in the context of the temporal evolution...
A one semester course to focus on major events, examining how the political and economic factors, the players and the context combined to set precedents for the United States in the...
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...
This course is designed to familiarize you with the Michigan political system and learn about current policy issues at play both statewide and in local...
This course is a seminar on how our identities shape and are shaped by political institutions, with a particular emphasis placed on how this interplay affects the distribution of social, political and economic...
Private philanthropic foundations in the U.S. are fundamentally private organizations that operate within the public arena, and have long played central roles in advancing social change and...
This is a short introductory course module in facilitating complex and difficult dialogic moments of engagement in the social, professional and institutional spheres of the public...
This course covers descriptive statistics, probability theory, probability distributions (normal, binomial, Poisson, exponential), sampling distributions, confidence intervals, and hypothesis...
This course provides an overview of international financial economics, developing analytic tools and concepts that can be used to analyze world economic policy...
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...
This course will provide students with a practical hands-on instruction in the analysis of survey data using the statistical package Stata. Students will learn how to investigate a variety of public policy issues using data from the...
The 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...
