Note: You must establish a session for Winter Academic Term 2002 on wolverineaccess.umich.edu in order to use the link "Check Times, Location, and Availability". Once your session is established, the links will function. Courses in Public Policy This page was created at 5:23 PM on Fri, Mar 22, 2002. Winter Academic Term, 2002 (January 7 - April 26) Open courses in Public Policy (*Not real-time Information. Review the "Data current as of: " statement at the bottom of hyperlinked page) Wolverine Access Subject listing for PUBPOL Winter Academic Term '02 Time Schedule for Public Policy . Courses in Public Policy are listed in the Time Schedule under the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy. The following courses count as LS&A courses for LS&A degree credit. PUBPOL 529 / POLSCI 529. Statistics. Section 001. Instructor(s): John Chamberlin (johnch@umich.edu) Prerequisites & Distribution: Prior coursework in calculus or concurrent enrollment in Math. 413, and permission of instructor. Previous coursework in statistics is not required. (3). (Excl). Credits: (3). Course Homepage: https://coursetools.ummu.umich.edu/2002/winter/pubpol/529/001.nsf This course covers descriptive statistics, probability theory, probability distributions (normal, binomial, Poisson, exponential), sampling distributions, confidence intervals, and hypothesis testing. It also includes an introduction to experimental design. The emphasis in the course is on preparing competent users and consumers of basic statistics. Some attention is paid to the mathematical underpinnings of statistical theory so that students will be prepared to go on to the Ford School econometrics course (PUBPOL 571). No previous course work in statistics is required, but a prior calculus course or concurrent enrollment in PUBPOL 513 is a prerequisite. Check Times, Location, and Availability Cost: No Data Given. Waitlist Code: No Data Given. PUBPOL 573 / ECON 573. Benefit-Cost Analysis. Section 001. Instructor(s): Kerwin Charles (kcharles@umich.edu) Prerequisites & Distribution: Econ. 555. (4). (Excl). Credits: (4). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted. This course teaches students how to evaluate government programs. It covers the mechanics of benefit-cost analysis, how scarce or unemployed resources should be priced, the choice of proper time-discount rates, treatment of income distribution issues, environmental benefits, intergovernmental grants, and regulatory problems. An essential part of the course is a term project – each student selects a program and does a benefit-cost evaluation of it. Check Times, Location, and Availability Cost: No Data Given. Waitlist Code: No Data Given. Graduate Course Listings for PUBPOL. This page was created at 5:23 PM on Fri, Mar 22, 2002. University of Michigan | College of LS&A | Student Academic Affairs | LS&A Bulletin Index | Department Homepage This page maintained by LS&A Academic Information and Publications, 1228 Angell Hall Copyright © 2001 The Regents of the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 USA +1 734 764-1817 Trademarks of the University of Michigan may not be electronically or otherwise altered or separated from this document or used for any non-University purpose.