Courses

One of the best parts of an education at the University of Michigan is that students can take courses at multiple schools, even if those courses do not appear in one’s home school curriculum. Listed below are some of the classes we love (and sometimes recruit from for research assistant positions!)

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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 microeconomics. In the course, we will begin by delving more deeply into rati...
PubPol 741

PubPol 741: Principles of Finance & Global Financial Markets

Finance is fundamental to many public policy questions. When the financial sector works well, it transfers resources from savers to borrowers, allowing individuals to save and businesses to invest. But when the financial sector works badly, resources...
PubPol 556

PubPol 556: Macroeconomics

This course teaches students the basic tools of macroeconomics and how to apply them to real-world economic policy. The goals of the course are for students to (a) understand how to evaluate macroeconomic conditions such as unemployment, inflation, a...
PubPol 542

PubPol 542: International Financial Policy

This course provides an overview of international financial economics, developing analytic tools and concepts that can be used to analyze world economic policy debates. It covers the international implications of macroeconomic policies, international...
PubPol 541

PubPol 541: International Trade Policy

This course examines the policy issues of international trade, including trade in both goods and services and also international flows of direct investment and migration. It builds on microeconomic theory, first to examine the basic theories of inter...
PubPol 529.001

PubPol 529.001: Statistics

This is a core course restricted to Ford School students only. This course covers descriptive statistics, probability theory, probability distributions ( normal, binomial, chi-squared, F), sampling distributions, confidence intervals, and hypothesi...
PubPol 522.002

PubPol 522.002: Writing Effectively for Public Policy

The class meets once a week and is open only to MPA students. In this ten-week course, students will learn to write for a public policy audience. Students will research a policy topic and will write about it in three separate documents (an op-ed an...
PubPol 522.001

PubPol 522.001: Writing Effectively for Public Policy

The class meets once a week and is open only to MPA students. In this ten-week course, students will learn to write for a public policy audience. Students will research a policy topic and will write about it in three separate documents (an op-ed an...
PubPol 475.007

PubPol 475.007: Topics: Winning Through Ballot Initiatives

This course introduces students to the art and science of winning ballot initiative campaigns.  Topics to be covered include ballot access and legal strategy, language development, earned and paid communications, including crafting and framing a mess...
PubPol 475.004

PubPol 475.004: Topics: Cybersecurity for Future Leaders

Future leaders will need to understand the science, technology, public policy, and national security considerations behind cybersecurity well enough to make informed decisions when provided advice and options for action. Over the last decade, cyberse...