This is a professional skills workshop that is required for students enrolled in the Applied Policy Seminar (APS, PP578) and open to other MPP/ Master’s students. The workshop will be offered each semester, concurrent with the...
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...
This course will provide students with a practical hands-on instruction in the analysis of survey data using the statistical package Stata. Students will learn how to investigate a variety of public policy issues using data from the...
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,...
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 examines the interaction between public policy and labor markets in theory and in practice, using empirical literature from countries in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and those from the ex-Soviet...
This course examines the origins, development, and impact of selected civil rights policies concerning race. Major topics include employment, education, voting, and...
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...
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,...
This course will explore the global issues of illegal drugs, crime and terrorism. Course content emphasizes policy options, formulation and implementation, and the tools and skills needed to produce effective recommendations for decision...
This course will explore public policy governance and implementation through current interdisciplinary literature and case examples. The aim is to give...
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 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...
Foreign Policy and the Management of International Relations This course examines alternative institutions and strategies through which nations articulate, either cooperatively or competitively, their foreign policy...
Basic economic principles and methods are used to identify the circumstances in which government intervention can improve industrial efficiency, and to investigate successful and unsuccessful regulatory...
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...
This course will provide students with a practical hands-on instruction in the analysis of survey data using the statistical package Stata. Students will learn how to investigate a variety of public policy issues using data from the...