This course 1) addresses some of the contemporary issues affecting the environment in which physics education and research take place, and 2) reviews current technical and policy challenges facing...
This course provides an opportunity for seniors in the Ford School to hear faculty talk about important policy issues, to give presentations to their peers, and to receive feedback on their...
This course covers descriptive statistics, probability theory, probability distributions (normal, binomial, Poisson, exponential), sampling distributions, confidence intervals, and hypothesis...
Race, gender, religion, sexuality and other social identities permeate the development and administration of American public policy. These identities are just as powerful of a tool in efforts to reduce social and economic disparities...
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 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 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 serves as an introduction to qualitative methods for MPP/MPA students. While we will examine a range of qualitative methodological approaches, the course's core focus will be on the case study method, with special emphasis on...
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...
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...
The purpose of this course is to expose students to various perspectives on state and local policy in the U.S. through the lens of one especially topical policy area: development...
In this interactive seminar, we will critically examine health disparities within various groups by race, socio-economic status, gender, sex, immigration and incarceration status, including the health consequences of incarceration and health...
Race, gender, religion, sexuality and other social identities permeate the development and administration of American public policy. These identities are just as powerful of a tool in efforts to reduce social and economic disparities...
During the twentieth century, the U.S. both saw the development of a social welfare system to serve nonelderly families and a subsequent dramatic overhaul of the cash welfare part of that...
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...
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 developed from an initiative of the International Policy Students Association (IPSA) at the Ford School of Public Policy. It will be in two...
As it exposes students to the landscape of science and technology policymaking in the US and abroad, this course introduces theories and methodologies for science and technology policy analysis, with literature drawn from a range of disciplines,...
This introduction to program evaluation and multiple regression analysis trains students to critically consume empirical studies and conduct their own empirical...
All three sections of 587 in Winter Term 2015 will continue to emphasize common themes such as performance management, strategic planning, and inter-institutional network...
