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PUBPOL 632

PUBPOL 632: Practicum in Education Policy

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 of...

PubPol 750

PubPol 750.002: Topics: U.S. Diplomacy in the Indo-Pacific

Daniel Shields

The course will examine the past, present, and future of diplomatic interactions between the United States and the other nations of the Indo-Pacific region, starting with the 1951 signing of the Treaty of San Francisco that ended the state of war...

PubPol 422

PubPol 422: Congress & State Legislatures

Is Congress too partisan? Can Congress fulfill its legislative and oversight functions? Do the executive and judicial branches effectively control public policy...

PubPol 330

PubPol 330.004: Microeconomics for Public Policy: In Depth

Stephanie Leiser

This course develops students' abilities to use microeconomic analysis to further our understanding of public...

PubPol 201

PubPol 201: Systematic Thinking

Paula Lantz

This course provides an introduction to public policy design and analysis using "systematic thinking" from the social sciences and humanities, with the application of scientific methods and knowledge more...

PUBPOL 513

PUBPOL 513: Calculus

Carl Simon

This course is designed specifically to provide students in all degree programs at the Ford School with the fundamental mathematical tools necessary for their subsequent...

PUBPOL 747-001

PUBPOL 747-001: International Macro/Financial Problems and Policies

This is the first of two separate half-term seminars, which may be taken together or separately. Recent topics have included the determinants of the...

PUBPOL 580

PUBPOL 580: Values, Ethics, and Public Policy

David Thacher

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 585

PUBPOL 585: Political Environment of Policymaking

Ann Chih Lin

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

PUBPOL 587

PUBPOL 587: Public Management

This course is designed to introduce the students to what public managers do and to help provide the students with perspectives and opportunities for practice that will help them become effective public...

PUBPOL 636

PUBPOL 636: Program Evaluation

Elisabeth Gerber

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 650

PUBPOL 650: Introduction to Science and Technology Policy Analysis

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,...

PUBPOL 676

PUBPOL 676: International Politics of Poverty and Development

Susan Waltz

This course examines alternative approaches to the study of poverty and development. Attention is directed primarily to problems confronted in the global South, with some comparative perspective on Western industrialized...

PUBPOL 683

PUBPOL 683: Elections and Campaigns

Gerald Hills

There is no policy without victory. More precisely, well-planned and well-executed political campaigns win elections and make governing...

PUBPOL 686

PUBPOL 686: State and Local Policy Analysis: Focus on Development

Elisabeth Gerber

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...

PUBPOL 688

PUBPOL 688: Intellectual Property and Information Law

This course would explore related and sometimes competing legal and policy frameworks for the development and dissemination of ideas and expression in the Information...

PUBPOL 730

PUBPOL 730: Women & Employment Policy

Mary Corcoran

This course reviews the literature on sex differences from a biological, social, and legal...

PUBPOL 731

PUBPOL 731: Distance Learning Project for Quantitative Social Science in South Africa

(2 Credits for class portion) -- This is a year-long course devoted to developing an internet-based course to promote quantitative social science in South...

PUBPOL 736

PUBPOL 736: Poverty & Inequality

Mary Corcoran

This course analyzes the conditions and causes of poverty within the United States and the variety of economic, social, and political responses to...

PUBPOL 578

PUBPOL 578: Applied Policy Seminar

Elisabeth Gerber

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,...

PUBPOL 747-002

PUBPOL 747-002: Issues and Options for Multilateral, Regional, and Bilateral Trade Liberalization

This is the second of two separate half-term seminars, which may be taken together or...

PUBPOL 750-002

PUBPOL 750-002: Special Topics -Policies for the Changing Economics of Knowledge

The course topic will change every new term. This seminar looks at the relationship between the changing nature of knowledge and policies for controlling access and use, principally through intellectual property protection and...

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 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 756

PUBPOL 756: Local Government, Opportunity for Activism

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 761

PUBPOL 761: The Politics of Health Policy

Richard Hall

This course will examine the politics of health care in the U.S. at the state and national...

PUBPOL 762

PUBPOL 762: Transnational Terrorism, Religion and The Limits of Reason

Spectacular and theatrical displays of terror, such as suicide bombings, are now banner actions for a thoroughly modern global diaspora that is religious in inspiration, and which claims the role of vanguard for a massive, transnational political...

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 810

PUBPOL 810: Policy Research Seminar

A bi-weekly one-credit seminar that introduces students to applied policy research. For students in the Ford School Joint Ph.D....

PUBPOL 513

PUBPOL 513: Calculus

Carl Simon

This course is designed specifically to provide students in all degree programs at the Ford School with the fundamental mathematical tools necessary for their subsequent...