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...
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...
Understand how to develop a fundraising strategy that will provide an organization with the resources needed to fulfill its mission and address a pressing social issue.
*This is a core course open to Ford School students...
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...
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...
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...
Researchers who study successful people agree on the following: Your IQ and cognitive intelligence are at best moderate predictors of your success in...
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...
This course will examine how cyberspace, particularly the Internet, can serve as a tool, target, and source of conflict for both state and non-state...
This class provides a foundational understanding of comparative law and selected foreign legal systems. The first part of the course is devoted to understanding the different families of...
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 developed from an initiative of the International Policy Students Association (IPSA) at the Ford School of Public Policy. It will be in two...
Course will examine the origins of the concept of CSR its meaning and motivations, and the shareholder-stakeholder controversy, where the latter include employees, communities (now defined globally) and, most recently, the global...
This course adopts the premise that judicial decisions and the legal strategies involved in those cases create a dynamic interaction between courts, legislatures, communities, legal advocacy groups, and the...
This course covers descriptive statistics, probability theory, probability distributions (normal, binomial, Poisson, exponential), sampling distributions, confidence intervals, and hypothesis...
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...
How should science and technology be used to solve social and policy problems? What values and assumptions underlie our current understandings of science and...
This class provides a foundational understanding of comparative law and selected foreign legal systems. The first part of the course is devoted to understanding the different families of...
The Evolving Bargain Between Research Universities and Society --- The role of the university as both 'servant and critic' of society is one of constant...
This course seeks to make students sensitive to and articulate about the ways in which moral and political values come into play in the American policy process, particularly as they affect non-elected public officials who work in a world shaped...
