Term Year

2008

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PUBPOL 780-001

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

Instructor: Alberto...

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 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 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 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 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 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 495-001

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 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 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 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 756

PUBPOL 756: Local Government, Opportunity for Activism

John Hieftje

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 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 631

PUBPOL 631: Economics of Education

Brian Jacob

This course examines a number of popular approaches to education reform, using an economic lens to understand the theoretical rationale and potential impact of...

PUBPOL 682

PUBPOL 682: Politics and Policies at the State Level

This course examines the interaction of politics and policymaking at the state...

PUBPOL 678

PUBPOL 678: Policy Advocacy

Richard Hall

A course on the strategy and tactics of governmental outsiders who seek to influence public...

PUBPOL 674-002

PUBPOL 674-002: Economic and Social Policies in a Selected Emerging Market Economy

Susan Waltz

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...

PUBPOL 674-001

PUBPOL 674-001: Economic and Social Policies in a Selected Emerging Market Economy

Susan Waltz

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...

PUBPOL 672/BA 519

PUBPOL 672/BA 519: Managing the Nonprofit Organization

This course explores the special challenges of management of a nonprofit...

PUBPOL 671

PUBPOL 671: Policy and Management in the Nonprofit Sector

The nonprofit sector has emerged as one of the cornerstones of American society, and yet remains very much a work in...

PUBPOL 653

PUBPOL 653: Global Environment Governance

In the past 50 years, states have signed hundreds of international environmental...

PUBPOL 638

PUBPOL 638: Integrated Policy Exercise

Marina Whitman

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 636

PUBPOL 636: Program Evaluation

The central issues addressed by this course are whether and how one ought to try to establish the extent to which public programs are achieving their goals. Are the goals being attained? If not, why...

PUBPOL 632

PUBPOL 632: Policy Analysis Practicum

Brian Jacob

The goal of this course is to provide students with an opportunity to get their "hands dirty" with actual policy work, both as a way to utilize some of the skills they have learned in their other courses as well as to help them learn about many...

PUBPOL 687

PUBPOL 687: Negotiation and Conflict Management

This course examines negotiation and social influence strategies for policy makers in the public, non-profit, and for-profit...

PUBPOL 587-001

PUBPOL 587-001: Public Management: The Politics of Bureaucracy

Barry Rabe

This section is designed to introduce many of the leading issues and challenges involved in public management and governance. It draws heavily from the discipline of political science and places major emphasis on bureaucratic...

PUBPOL 585

PUBPOL 585: Political Environment of Policymaking

Ann Chih Lin

This course focuses on the political environment within which policy analysis takes...

PUBPOL 580

PUBPOL 580: Values, Ethics, and Public Policy

John Chamberlin

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 578

PUBPOL 578: Applied Policy Seminar

Brian Jacob

The Applied Policy Seminar (APS) (now called Strategic Public Policy Consulting or SPPC) is an opportunity for students to do public sector consulting work for state and local governments and community development organizations in Ann Arbor,...