Winter 2018

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 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 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 475

PUBPOL 475.507: Topics: From the "Great Depression" to the "Great Recession"

Joshua Hausman

Since the 2008 financial crisis, developed countries have suffered high unemployment and slow growth. What are options for policymakers in this...

PUBPOL 750

PUBPOL 750.505: 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 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 587.202: Public Management: Fundraising Strategies for Nonprofits

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...

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 750

PUBPOL 750.507: Topics: From the "Great Depression" to the "Great Recession"

Joshua Hausman

Since the 2008 financial crisis, developed countries have suffered high unemployment and slow growth. What are options for policymakers in this...

PUBPOL 587

PUBPOL 587.205: Public Management: Leadership in Diversity Initiatives at Public Universities

Paula Lantz

The focus of this graduate seminar in public management is leadership and policy issues related to diversity and inclusion efforts in higher education, with a particular focus on public universities in the United...

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...

PUBPOL 716

PUBPOL 716.002: Intro Chinese Policy

Ann Chih Lin

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PUBPOL 575

PUBPOL 575.001: Tax Policy&Business

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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 810

PUBPOL 810.001: PhD Policy Research Seminar

Richard Hall

A bi-weekly one-credit seminar that introduces students to applied policy research. For students in the Ford School Joint Ph.D. program. Students will meet on the following dates: Open to PhD students...

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 475

PUBPOL 475.204: Topics: The Role of Non-Government Organizations in Policy Formation

Hardy Vieux

Taught by Towsley Policymaker in Residence Hardy Vieux (Legal Director at Human Rights...

PUBPOL 475

PUBPOL 475.301: Topics: Social Justice, Political Conflicts, Democratic Practice and Leadership in the Spheres of Public Advocacy

Yazier Henry

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...

PUBPOL 580

PUBPOL 580.001: Values, Ethics, and Public Policy

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...

PUBPOL 475

PUBPOL 475.305: Topics: Equity at Work

Fabiana Silva

More than 50 years after the passage of the Civil Rights Act, significant gender and ethno-racial inequality in the labor market remains....

PUBPOL 475

PUBPOL 475.302: Topics: Comparative Law and Policy

Valenta Kabo

Because law is one of the means through which policies are enacted, understanding the different structures of legal systems is a necessary for understanding policy promulgation in different...

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...

PUBPOL 750

PUBPOL 750.503: Topics: Facilitating Dialogue Across Faultline: Race, Identity and Socio-Cultural Difference

Yazier Henry

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...

PUBPOL 754

PUBPOL 754.002: Research Seminar in Science, Tech and Public Policy

In memoriam: James Duderstadt

The aim of this course is to introduce students to topical issues in science and technology policy. The course will meet weekly for a formal...

PUBPOL 754

PUBPOL 754.001: Research Seminar in Science, Tech and Public Policy

In memoriam: James Duderstadt

The aim of this course is to introduce students to topical issues in science and technology policy. The course will meet weekly for a formal...

PUBPOL 639

PUBPOL 639.001: Quantitative Methods of Program Evaluation

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

PUBPOL 633