Courses

When designing new policies or programs, or adapting existing policies at the local level, engaging the public can enable governments to be more targeted to local needs, more effective within a local context, and more sustainable by developing loc

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.

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.

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 parts.

This course teaches students the basic tools of macroeconomics and how to apply them to real-world economic 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.

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.

This is a core course restricted to Ford School students only.

The class meets once a week and is open only to MPA students.

The class meets once a week and is open only to MPA students.

This course will explore the legal enforcement of those human rights that are fundamental and are the birthright of all human beings.

PUBPOL 495 (Policy Seminar) is for students currently enrolled in the Public Policy Undergraduate Program only, with no exceptions. Enrollment is by permission only.

The combination of slow economic growth and rising inequality has meant that the material living standards of the median American household have improved only slowly since the early 1970s.

This course introduces students to the art and science of winning ballot initiative campaigns.

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.

The events of 6 January 2021 at the US Capitol served as a stark example of the evolving threat of domestic violent extremism in the United States. This threat has ebbed and flowed in intensity over the past several decades, with some experts sugg

It's been decades since the United States has faced such a critical mix of foreign policy challenges as today.