Communicating through visual presentation of data is a critical skill in a variety of industries. This course will introduce students to data visualization, from principles to...
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...
This is a professional skills workshop that will be required for students enrolled in the SPPC (PP 578) and open to other MPP/ Master's student. To be offered each semester, concurrent with the...
As national concern for addressing global warming grows, more and more Americans are looking for governmental action to speed a transition to low-carbon energy...
This course will explore the legal enforcement of those human rights that are fundamental and are the birthright of all human beings. We will review the international political and legal framework established over the past fifty years to...
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...
How are the inherent and intersecting relations of power including inherent structures of dominance related to the experience of violence, oppression and resistance textured into the context of politics and policy...
This course can be taken in-person or remotely online.
The purpose of PubPol 683 is to examine campaigns and explain what happens and why. Remember: There is no policy without...
No large American city grew more rapidly than Detroit from 1900 to the 1930s. Thanks to Henry Ford and the automobile manufacturing, Detroit became the prosperous axis mundi of the world vehicle industry. After World War II,...
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...
Strategic Public Policy Consulting (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 local, state, national or international...
This course is an introduction to programming in the R statistical language. R is a flexible, open-source statistics platform which has gained broad adoption in a variety of...
