Courses Winter 2010
Nonprofit and Public Management Courses Offered Winter 2010
This is a list
of courses offered at the University of Michigan Professional Schools
in Winter 2010. (Descriptions reflect information current as of
11/3/09, unless otherwise indicated.)
Ross School of Business
BA 512 Ethics of Corporate Management
Time: TTh 2:10-3:40 pm
R1210 BUS
Instructor: Hess
Class meets: Mar. 9-Apr. 19
This course introduces students to the complex ethical problems associated with the management of large business organizations under conditions of rapid economic change and intense global competition. It focuses on the responsibilities of senior executives to the various constituents of the firm-customers, employees, owners, creditors, suppliers, distributors, local residents, national citizens and global inhabitants-and on the treatment of those constituencies that can be considered to be "right" and "proper" and "fair".
BE 570 Tax Policy & Business
Time: TTh 8:30-10:00 am R2210 BUS
Instructor: Slemrod
Class meets: Jan. 11-Apr. 19
An analysis, from the business and government policy perspectives, of some of the largest government programs that shape the economic environment. The course begins with a theoretical treatment of the principles that should infuse an appropriate role of government in the economy, and proceeds to apply these principles to critical policy issues. The first seven weeks deals with federal income tax policy, focusing on how the tax system affects the economy and business decisions. An evaluation of the major proposals for income tax reform will be examined, including the flat tax and the national retail sales tax.
STRATEGY 566 Systems Thinking for Sustainable Development and Enterprise
Time: W 7:00-10:00 pm
E1405 BUS
Instructor: Gladwin
Class meets: Jan. 11-Apr. 19
Challenges to a sustainable human future such as climate change, population growth, biodiversity loss and persistent poverty are characterized by extraordinary detail and dynamic complexity. This course fosters the skills of systems thinking and systems dynamics modeling necessary for understanding global environmental and social change. This holistic and dynamic understanding is employed to chart pathways for sustainable human development and business.
STRATEGY 624 Co-Creation of Value
Time: W 6:30-9:30 pm R0230 BUS
Instructor: Ramaswamy
Class meets: Jan. 11-Apr. 19
Thanks to the Internet, and the structural forces
of digitization, ubiquitous connectivity, globalization, social networking, and new communications and information modalities, interactions between individuals everywhere in the system have exploded on a scale and scope as never before. Providers are challenged by the fact that their recipients are increasingly informed, connected, networked and empowered. Armed with access to new information and
communications technologies, individuals are demanding a higher quality of interactions, and are even prepared to insert themselves into the firm's value chain to co-create mutually valuable experiences. The goal of this course is to expose you to an "expanded" paradigm of value creation that leading companies all over the world are embracing. Companies are innovating new engagement platforms and environments of experiences that facilitate customer interactions with a company's products, processes, employees, as well as customer communities, to
co-create mutual value. We will discuss how you can help organizations shift their thinking and practices towards co-creation and help build new management processes and organizational capabilities for co-creating value.
LHC 522 Managerial Writing Fundamentals
Time: MW 12:40-2:10 pm
R2310 BUS
Instructor: Crawford
Class meets: Jan.11 - Feb. 26
Fundamentals for managerial writing are central to the course. Students review the punctuation, grammar, syntax, organizational approaches, content development and conventional formats necessary for managerial documents. Goals include writing clearly, concisely and correctly, achieved through numerous writing exercises and by composing a variety of business memoranda and letters.
LHC 524 Persuasive Management Communication
Time: MW 10:20-11:50 am
R2310 BUS
Instructor: Pawlik
Class meets: Jan.11 - Feb. 26
This course presents persuasive communication strategies that facilitate effective management. Specifically, the course covers fundamental persuasive frameworks (e.g. compliance-gaining, conflict management, credibility control) applied to oral and written messages. These frameworks provide a basis for exploring persuasive communication in a variety of management settings. Special emphasis is placed on differing strategies associated with cultural variation, focusing on those most critical for global business communication.
LHC 561 Management Presentations
Time: MW 2:10-3:40 pm
R2320 BUS
Instructor: Kotzian
Class meets: Jan.11 - Feb. 26
Time: M 6:30-9:30 pm R2320 BUS
Instructor: Kotzian
Class meets: Mar. 9-Apr. 19
This course stresses the concepts and skills needed to give effective oral presentations in professional settings. The course is guided by a theoretical framework that emphasizes strategic communication choices, expansion of communication styles, and adaptation to others within communication contexts. This course requires students to give professional business presentations in each of the four quadrants of management communication. In the course of doing these presentations, students develop outlines, create speaking notes, adapt content, and design supplementary materials. Students also practice questions management and impromptu speaking. By the end of the course, students will be able to design, develop, and deliver management presentations that employ a variety of audience-centered strategies.
MKT 614 Social Marketing
Time: M 6:30-9:30 pm R1240 BUS
Instructor: Nordhielm
Class meets: Mar. 9-Apr. 19
This course explores social marketing and consumer culture from managerial and ethical perspectives. The overall thrust of the course will be on using marketing methods to benefit the public interest. Topics will include: social marketing such as anti-smoking campaigns; corporate social responsibility and cause related marketing; marketing in nonprofit organizations; green marketing; economic and sociological perspectives on consumer culture; the psychology of happiness and how personal well-being is influenced by wealth, consumption, and materialism; and public policy concerns related to marketing and advertising.
MO 512 Bargaining and Influence Skills
Time: MW 10:20-12:40 am K1320 BUS
Instructor: Kopelman
Class meets: Jan.11-Feb. 26
Time: MW 2:10-4:30 pm K1320 BUS
Instructor: Kopelman
Class meets: Jan.11-Feb. 26
Time: TTh 10:20-12:40 pm R0230 BUS
Instructor: Sanchez-Burks
Class meets: Jan.11-Feb. 26
Time: TTh 2:10-4:30 pm R0230 BUS
Instructor: Sanchez-Burks
Class meets: Jan.11-Feb. 26
Time: MW 10:20-12:40 pm R0220 BUS
Instructor: Stephens
Class meets: Mar.9-Apr. 14
Time: TTh 10:20-12:40 pm R0240 BUS
Instructor: Staff
Class meets: Mar.9-Apr. 14
This course is premised on the fact that while a manager needs analytical skills to discover optimal solutions to business problems, a broad array of negotiation skills is needed to implement these solutions. This experiential course is designed to improve students' skills in claiming and creating value in deals and disputes. Learning objectives focus on the development and practice of key negotiation competencies. Extensive personal feedback, peer review, coaching, and personal journals are used to help each student develop strategic flexibility across a variety of contexts, whether cultural, professional, or personal. Given the experiential nature of the course and pedagogy, enrollment in each section will be limited, and in addition, attendance will be mandatory. Consistent with that policy, registered students must be present from the beginning of the first class session to retain their registration in the class.
MO 605 Leading and Leveraging Difference
Time: M 6:30-9:30 pm R1230 BUS
Instructor: Myers
Class meets: Jan. 11 - Feb. 26
Difference and diversity impact the bottom line. Leading & Leveraging Difference teaches students formal and informal leadership skills that are essential for working across boundaries in a diverse workplace. By the end of the course, students will have a repertoire of strategies to leverage different perspectives in ways that improve performance. In addition to traditional readings, lectures and discussions, this class uses unique approaches to learning such as feature film analysis, journal entries and an immersion experience. These non-traditional methods stimulate personal development and interpersonal skills related to culture, power, conflict and teamwork.
MO 611 Business Leadership in Changing Times
Time: W 2:10-5:10 pm R1220 BUS
Instructor: Myers
Class meets: Jan. 11 - Feb. 26 & Mar. 9 - Apr. 19
The objective of this course is to develop a useful approach for recognizing and dealing with rapid change in business. This course deals with business leadership during periods of rapid change and managing a business during difficult times. It focuses on the early recognition of, methods of coping with, ways of learning from, and prevention of critically disruptive situations. One part of the course involves identifying and understanding the more frequent disruptions that business executives encounter. This is accomplished through readings of current literature and case simulations. Teams of students reconstruct outstanding cases based on reading, experience, and creative thinking.
MO 615 Managing Professional Relationships
Time: Sa 8:30 am-5 pm R0320 BUS
Instructor: Dutton
Class meets: Jan. 16, Jan. 30, Feb. 13
Effective leadership is effective relationship management. This course is designed to help managers think and act effectively to build high quality relationships with others. For individuals, high quality relationships generate and sustain energy, equipping people to do their work, and do it well. High quality relationships offer other benefits as well. In a world of continuous change, downsizing, and a press for speed, high quality relationships enable effective individual growth and adaptation to change. Research on managerial effectiveness and derailment also suggests that successful managers are skilled at understanding, managing and leveraging high quality relationships with others. High quality relationships also facilitate the speed and quality of learning, particularly where knowledge is tacit as opposed to explicit. In organizations where knowledge is the basis for competitive advantage, high quality relationships between people enable more effective individual and organizational learning.
MO 621 Leadership Development: Self Awareness, Skills and Strategies
Time: W 6:30 - 9:30 pm R2240 BUS
Instructor: Mayer
Class meets: Jan. 11 - Apr. 19
This course offers an extensive journey into the nature of leadership in organizations, with an emphasis on self-understanding and learning. It offers both a theoretical and practical understanding of leadership. At the end of this course, students should have a better conceptual sense of leadership, important insights into themselves as leaders, an enhanced ability to understand and map the context in which leadership is to be exerted, and practical ideas about how to work that context in order to lead change. The course will use cases, experimental exercises, role-plays, videos, and self-assessment exercises to stimulate student learning.
MO 672 Leading Nonprofit Organizations
Time: F 12:30-4:30 pm and Sa 9 am-Noon R2230 BUS
Instructor: Wooten
Class meets: Jan. 22 & 23, Jan 29 , and Feb. 5 & 6
This is a course intended to give students a broad overview of the leadership challenges of the non-profit sector. The course content is designed for students who not only plan to lead non-profit organizations, but who may also serve as volunteers or on non-profit boards. The core framework for this course will focus on non-profit leaders as capacity builders. This includes the leadership capability to create a mission centered non-profit organization aligned with its strategies, skills, organizational culture and a supporting infrastructure. In addition, we explore the leader as external agent building capacity through advocacy, working with businesses and collaborating with other non-profit organizations.
BIT 512 Decision Support with Spreadsheets
Time: TTh 12:40-2:10 pm R1240 BUS
Instructor: Schriber
Class meets: Jan. 11 - Feb. 26
Time: TTh 2:10-3:40 pm R1240 BUS
Instructor: Schriber
Class meets: Jan. 11 - Feb. 26
Time: T 6:30-9:30 pm R0210 BUS
Instructor: Schriber
Class meets: Jan. 11 - Feb. 26
Spreadsheets have advanced to the point of providing powerful, general-purpose functionality and are among the most widely used decision-support tools in business today. This course deals with decision support using spreadsheets, including: what if analysis; financial, statistical and time/date functions; graphical presentation of data; organizing, sorting, querying and extracting information from spreadsheet and external databases and the World Wide Web; cross-tabulation of data; data tables; creation and management of scenarios; use of a solver to find optimal solutions to problems; the design to macros to support spreadsheet applications; and data maps. An expert level of spreadsheet use is achieved. Lecture-demonstrations illustrate relevant features of spreadsheet software. Students do assigned cases on a computer to reinforce and extend conceptual and operational aspects of the material. Windows-based spreadsheet software (such as Excel) is used.
BIT 551 Information Systems
Time: Th 6:30-9:30 pm R0220 BUS
Instructor: Melville
Class meets: Jan.11 - Apr. 19
An introduction to information systems for managers. Topics discussed include the kinds of information systems that support individual, group and corporate goals, with an emphasis not only on the hardware/software but also the managerial concerns with the design and implementation of information technology.
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School of Public Policy
PUBPOL 578 Applied Policy Seminar
Time: T 5:30-8:30 pm 1210 WEILL
Instructor: Staff
Class meets: Jan. 6 - Apr. 20
The Applied Policy Seminar (APS) is an opportunity for students to do public sector consulting work for state and local governments and community development organizations in Ann Arbor, Detroit, and other areas of Michigan. Projects range widely in policy area, level of quantitative analysis required, size, and complexity. All projects culminate in the publication of a final report and an oral presentation to the client.
PUBPOL 585 Political Environment of Policymaking
Time: MW 10:00-11:30 am 1230 WEILL
Instructor: Hall
Class meets: Jan. 6 - Apr. 20
This course focuses on the political environment within which policy analysis takes place. In the United States, public policies are formulated and implemented in a political system of widely-shared power by participants with many different, and often conflicting, goals. To be effective, policy analysts and public managers must understand this political system. The goal of this course is to provide the student with some of the background necessary to develop strategies for dealing effectively with the political environment of policy and administration.
PUBPOL 587 Public Management: The Politics of Bureaucracy
Time: TTh 8:30-10 am 1230 WEILL
Instructor: Gillies
Class meets: Jan. 6 - Apr. 20
Time: TTh 10:00-11:30 am 1230 WEILL
Instructor: Gillies
Class meets: Jan. 6 - Apr. 20
This section is intended to introduce many of the leading issues and challenges involved in public management. It will focus largely on American examples at the national government level but attempt, where possible, to engage in some comparative analysis as well as state and local management. It draws heavily from the discipline of political science and places major emphasis on bureaucratic politics. This will entail extensive examination of the behavior of bureaucrats and the institutions that they serve. It will be divided into three broad units. First, we will examine the evolution of public management in the United States and introduce competing theories that explain why, in many circles, public management is derided as highly dysfunctional. Second, we will consider the wide range of reform initiatives attempted in the U.S. and other Western democracies under the broad umbrella of the so-called New Public Management, looking at a number of alternative approaches to public management challenges. Finally, we will explore the extent to which public managers can chart the future, build policy networks, and even take lead roles in designing and implementing effective public policy. Throughout these respective sections, we will consider public management across a wide range of public policy issue areas.
PUBPOL 671 Policy and Management in the Nonprofit Sector
Time: MW 7-8:30 pm 1220 WEILL
Instructor: Hajra
Class meets: Jan. 6 - Apr. 20
This course provides a survey of policy and management issues in the nonprofit sector in the US. It focuses on how nonprofit organizations differ from governments and private firms and the implications of these differences for public policy and management. Assignments include theoretical readings, case studies and readings on contemporary events in the nonprofit sector. Among the topics covered are the nature and variety of nonprofit organizations, governance and accountability, ethics, financing and economic decision-making, and performance measurement.
PUBPOL 735 Professional Development: Pathways to Professional Success
Time: F 8:00 am-2:00 pm 1210 WEILL
Instructor: TBD
Class meets: Mar. 19 and Mar. 26
Researchers have found that a person's IQ and classroom performance is at best a moderate predictor of long term success. This seminar will help you learn skills (beyond analytical skills) that will help you achieve the professional goals that you desire; self-awareness, developing sustainable and ethical power and influence, managing organizational politics; managing your relationships with bosses, peers, and direct reports, effective networking, creating high performing teams; and achieving work/life balance.
School of Social Work
SW 560 Introduction to Community Organization, Management and Policy/Evaluation Practice
Time: W 9:00 am-12:00 pm TBD
Instructor: Vinokur
Class meets: Jan. 6 - Apr. 20
Time: M 4:00-7:00 pm TBD
Instructor: Vinokur
Class meets: Jan. 6 - Apr. 20
Time: W 2:00-5:00 pm TBD
Instructor: Woodford
Class meets: Jan. 6 - Apr. 20
This course is a generalist social work foundation offering in the Macro Practice Concentrations (Community Organization, Management, and Policy/Evaluation). It covers basic content in these areas of social work method and prepares students to take the more advanced courses in their concentration. It is partly survey in nature, touching on a range of methodologies and emphases, and providing an appreciation of the historical and contemporary importance of these methods in social work. In addition, it deals with the process of professionalization and introduces students to a range of practice tools. Issues of diverse dimensions [e.g. ability, age, class, color, culture, ethnicity, family structure, gender (including gender identity and gender expression), marital status, national origin, race, religion or spirituality, sex, and sexual orientation] will be emphasized throughout, with special focus on culturally sensitive practice - i.e., multicultural community organizing, culturally sensitive management practices, culturally sensitive analyses of policy proposals and their impact, and culturally sensitive research practices. Students' field experience and future methods courses will build upon the knowledge and skills presented in this course.
SW 611 Social Change Theories
Time: M 9:00 am-12:00 pm TBD
Instructor: Tucker
Class meets: Jan. 6 - Apr. 20
This course will review theories and research from the social sciences on social change, focusing especially at the societal level. Theories of social conflict, interest groups, and social movements, and such processes as consciousness-raising will be covered. Dynamics of the diffusion of innovations in society will also be addressed. Examples will be drawn from areas of practice in which social workers are involved, such as mental health and chemical dependency, child and family welfare, civil rights, health care, and consumer protection.
SW 647 Policies and Services for Social Participation and Community Well-Being
Time: M 1:00-4:00 pm TBD
Instructor: Gant
Class meets: Jan. 6 - Apr. 20
Time: T 9:00 am-12:00 pm TBD
Instructor: Martin
Class meets: Jan. 6 - Apr. 20
Time: T 2:00 pm-5:00 pm TBD
Instructor: Tidrick
Class meets: Jan. 6 - Apr. 20
This course will survey the policies and services that promote a civil society and enhance human rights in the framework of American democracy. Emphasis will be placed on those policies and services which serve to enhance social participation, economic security, respect for diversity, voluntary action, and community and corporate responsibility. Students will learn to describe and analyze how complex and emerging social problems arise within society, and how social problems impact individuals, groups, organizations, and communities. Programs within various units of government, nonprofit and social service organizations, and corporations will be reviewed. Various partnerships and collaborations among funders and service providers will be examined.
SW 651 Planning for Organizational and Commmunity Change
Time: T 6:00-9:00 pm TBA
Instructor: Duntley-Matos
Class meets: Jan. 6 - Apr. 20
This course will examine social planning as a systematic process of developing and implementing plans and programs that promote social justice and well-being at the community level. A range of analytic and interactional tools will be reviewed, including those which assess community strengths and needs, set goals and priorities, formulate action plans, develop organizational structures, build support for implementation, and monitor and evaluate risk results. This course will also analyze major models of planning practice, the sociopolitical context within which practice takes place, and strategies for expanding institutional relationships and collaborative partnerships aimed at a more equitable distribution of goods, services, and resources.
SW 658 Women and Community Organizing
Time: W 6:00-9:00 pm TBD
Instructor: Wernick
Class meets: Jan. 6 - Apr. 20
Contemporary feminist thought challenges us to identify and analyze the connections between our day-to-day experiences and social patterns of gender inequality. In this course, we will explore the theory and practice of community organizations using a feminist lens. This lens brings into focus persistent patterns of inequality; it also reveals the persistence of community-based women organizers efforts to create positive change. This course will examine concepts and techniques for organizing women at the community level. Students will learn about major models and methods of practice, intersectional and analytical skills, and roles of women as organizers and constituents of community organizations. Students will identify forces that facilitate and limit organizing of women in the community and will develop action principles for work with women in the community. Critical value and ethical issues for women and men concerned with women's issues and organizing will be explored, in addition to ways to develop alternative approaches to address these issues.
SW 663 Grantgetting, Contracting and Fund Raising
Time: W 2:00-5:00 pm TBD
Instructor: Miller
Class meets: Jan. 6 - Apr. 20
Time: W 9:00 am-12:00 pm TBD
Instructor: Miller
Class meets: Jan. 6 - Apr. 20
Human service organizations secure resources through a variety of venues, including fees, grants, contracts, gifts, bequests, in-kind (non-cash) contributions, and investments. Instruction will be provided in assessing an agency's resource mix and how to repackage or expand its revenue streams. Skill development will be emphasized in areas such as grant seeking, proposal writing, presentations, service contracting, campaign planning, campaign management, donor development, direct solicitation of gifts, and planning of fundraising events. This course will also address consumer and third-party fee setting and collection, outsourcing, income investment, and creation of for-profit subsidiaries.
SW 664 Management of Human Resources
Time: Th 9:00 am-12:00 pm TBA
Instructor: Woodford
Class meets: Jan. 6 - Apr. 20
This course will focus on how human service administrators can increase their effectiveness and improve the quality and efficiency of agency staff performance through structured human resource practice methods. This course will present ways to develop an equitable, healthy, and viable workplace for employers and employees. It will explore the role of managers as change agents within organizations and the societal level impact of those changes. Students will learn relevant skills in staff recruitment, hiring, retention and termination, staff development, compensation and performance, and the development of benefit packages. Relevant laws and legislation governing workplace relationships such as the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) will also be reviewed.
SW 665 Executive Leadership and Organizational Governance
Time: Th 2:00-5:00 pm TBD
Instructor: Crabb
Class meets: Jan. 6 - Apr. 20
This course will examine the attributes, skills, behaviors, problems, and issues associated with higher level administrative roles in human service organizations, both public and private. Several executive functions will be given particular attention, including defining the mission and goals of the organization, mobilizing resources, selecting service technologies and staff, developing the appropriate internal-external structures (i.e., internal structures that link to external contexts), and adapting the organization to changing environments. Various styles of leadership will also be analyzed with special reference to the stages of organizational development. Concomitant with the above executive roles and skills, this course will address strategies for organizational development that are directed toward enhancing adaptability, effectiveness and efficiency in serving clientele, and organizational problem-solving.
SW 683 Evaluation in Social Work
Time: W 2:00-5:00 pm TBD
Instructor: Watkins
Class meets: Jan. 6 - Apr. 20
Time: W 2:00-5:00 pm TBD
Instructor: Savas
Class meets: Jan. 6 - Apr. 20
Time: W 6:00-9:00 pm TBD
Instructor: Willis
Class meets: Jan. 6 - Apr. 20
Time: Th 2:00-5:00 pm TBD
Instructor: Delva
Class meets: Jan. 6 - Apr. 20
This course will cover beginning level evaluation that builds on basic research knowledge as a method of assessing social work practice and strengthening clients, communities and their social programs as well as the systems that serve clients and communities. It addresses the evaluation of promotion, prevention, treatment, and rehabilitation services. Students will learn to assess and apply evaluation methods from various perspectives, including scientific, ethical, multicultural, and social justice perspectives.
SW 685 Methods of Program Evaluation
Time: Th 2:00-5:00 pm TBD
Instructor: Chadiha
Class meets: Jan. 6 - Apr. 20
This course will focus on the use of quantitative and qualitative research methods to monitor and evaluate social services. Students will develop skills in choosing and implementing appropriate evaluation strategies and designs to answer policy and practice questions. Emphasis will be placed on how to select and construct measures and assess their reliability and validity. Students will assess service needs of target populations and communities, monitor the implementation and operation of social welfare programs, and evaluate their impact. Opportunities will be provided to obtain practical experience in data collection, interpretation, presentation and dissemination of evaluation results.
SW 697 Social Work Practice with Community and Social Systems
Time: M 4:00-7:00 pm TBD
Instructor: Ray
Class meets: Jan. 6 - Apr. 20
Time: T 2:00-5:00 pm TBD
Instructor: Reed
Class meets: Jan. 6 - Apr. 20
Time: T 9:00 am-12:00 pm TBD
Instructor: Ray
Class meets: Jan. 6 - Apr. 20
This course will prepare students to engage in integrated practice focused on utilizing community and social systems to support and empower individuals, families, and communities and envision and work towards social justice goals. This will include skills for entering, assessing, and working collaboratively with client systems and their social networks, including assessment of power differences and building on diversity within the community. This course will build on practice methods presented in the foundation courses and give special attention to partnership, strengths based, and empowering models of practice and those that further social justice goals. Special emphasis will be placed on conducting this work in a multicultural context with vulnerable and oppressed populations and communities and to identify and reduce the consequences of unrecognized privilege.
SW 706 Building Conflict Management Effectiveness
Time: Th 9:00 am-12:00 pm TBD
Instructor: Root
Class meets: Jan. 6 - Apr. 20
This course will provide an overview of conflict management methods congruent with the demands of multiple domains and levels of social work practice. Students in all concentrations must address conflicts arising between people whose lives are interdependent whether they are board members, neighbors, or spouses. The community activist working to develop interorganizational collaboratives and the social work clinician helping individuals and families resolve disputes must both learn about the dynamics of face-to-face conflicts and the range of techniques and strategies available to help prevent, de-escalate, and resolve such differences.
SSW 799 Managerial Supervision in the Human Services
Time: TBA
Instructor: Tropman
Class meets: Jan. 6 - Apr. 20
This course presents advanced topics in macro social work practice. The topics may include emerging macro practice issues and advanced application of specific methods.
School of Information
SI 530 Principles in Management
Time: T 1:00-4:00 pm 311 WH
Instructor: Faniel
Class meets: Jan. 6 - Apr. 20
This course provides a foundation in management for information professionals interested in working in for-profit or non-profit organizations. In this course students ill learn about management principles (e.g. planning, organizing, leading, controlling). Having a firm grasp of the principles is the first step. This is a skills based course, so students are expected to apply what they learn in class by reading and analyzing case studies.
SI 623 Outcome-Based Evaluations of Programs and Services
Time: T 1:00-4:00 pm 409 WH
Instructor: Durrance
Class meets: Jan. 6 - Apr. 20
This course provides 1) an overview of the purposes and uses of outcome-based evaluation approaches and methods; 2) an opportunity to conduct a focused outcome evaluation of a user-focused service in a library, a non-profit organization, an archive, a museum of other service-focused organization.
SI 702 Seminar in Organizational Studies
Time: F 1:30-3:00 pm K1310 BUS
Instructor: Davis
Class meets: Jan. 11 - Apr. 19
This seminar provides a forum for the discussion of research and theory about organizations and organizational processes. In keeping with its interdisciplinary character, the seminar will consider both macro and micro-processes and their intersection. Presentations will be made by faculty and advanced graduate students from within the university, as well as from other universities and centers for research on organizations.
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School of Education
EDUC 643 Sociology of Education
Time: T 10:00 am-1:00 pm TBD
Instructor: O'Connor
Class meets: Jan. 6 - Apr. 20
Focuses on the role of schooling in reproducing and reinforcing prevailing social, political, and economic relationships and inequities; assesses the potential contradictions between the societal functions of schooling and the professed goals of educators. The course examines sources of educational change, organizational context of schooling, impact of schooling on social stratification, social organization within the school and the classroom, social impact of the formal curriculum, and methods of selection and differentiation in elementary and secondary schools.
EDUC 669 Institutional Advancement and Development in Higher Education
Time: TBA
Instructor: TBA
Class meets: TBA
This course provides a theoretical framework and academic underpinning of institutional advancement. The history and current challenges which shape contemporary practice in alumni relations, marketing communications and development will be explored. The relationship of these activities to academic priorities, government relations, and policy initiatives will also be discussed.
EDUC 764 Public Policy in Postsecondary Education
Time: F 9:00 am-12:00 pm TBD
Instructor: DesJardins
Class meets: Jan. 6 - Apr. 20
Focuses on legislative and executive policy formulation processes at the state, regional, and national levels. Considers theoretical and conceptual approaches to understanding public policy formation, including the role and function of the major organizational factors at each level and their modes of influence in determining policy for postsecondary education. Examines in depth selected current public policy issues that cut across political levels.
EDUC 795 Quantitative Methods for Non-Experimental Research
Time: W 1:00-4:00 pm TBD
Instructor: McCall
Class meets: Jan. 6 - Apr. 20
Time: Th 10:00 am-12:00 pm G444B MH
Instructor: Staff
Class meets: Jan. 6 - Apr. 20
Time: Th 2:00-4:00 pm G444B MH
Instructor: Staff
Class meets: Jan. 6 - Apr. 20
A field-based intermediate-level course in research methods that focuses on non-experimental research. Emphasizes application of statistical concepts to current educational problems. Students will examine non-experimental data using SPSS-X software. The course focuses on regression-based methods, including path analysis and analysis of covariance. Recommended for all students planning a quantitative study for the dissertation.
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College of Architecture and Urban Planning
UP 539 Methods for Economic Development Planning
Time: TTh 10:00-11:30 am 2108 A&AB
Instructor: Campbell
Class meets: Jan. 6 - Apr. 20
This course teaches methods used by planners to understand local and regional economies, identify planning strategies, and evaluate impacts. We approach economic development form three interrelated perspectives: sector-based, people-based, and place-based, with emphasis on social justice and sustainability. Analytical methods include economic base, shift-share, policy evaluation, and occupational analysis.
UP 565 Real Estate Development
Time: W 6:30-9:30 pm E1540 BUS
Instructor: Allen
Class meets: Jan.11 - Apr. 19
This course covers project feasibility, location analysis, development decisions, supply and production, market performance, and case studies. Prerequisite: one prior Real Estate course or equivalent experience.
UP 610 Fiscal Planning and Management
Time: MW Noon-1:30 pm 1227 A&AB
Instructor: Deng
Class meets: Jan. 6 - Apr. 20
This course is designed to provide urban planners and related professionals with the methods of public financial management and analysis used in urban planning and public policy contexts. The course includes topics such as: fiscal planning and management systems, budgeting, revenues, intergovernmental relations, debt financing, fiscal analysis, public investment analysis and fiscal impact analysis. The course requires lecture and seminar sessions, independent reading, a short paper and problem sets. The focus is on the practical and professional rather than the theoretical aspects of fiscal planning.
UP 634 Integrative Field Experience
Time: TuTh 1:30-6:30 pm 2204 A&AB
Instructor: Dewar & Dueweke
Class meets: Jan. 6 - Apr. 20
A one- or two-term capstone experience involving second-year students working directly with community-based organizations in urban neighborhoods and planning districts in Detroit. Following general introduction and orientation to the study area and issues, students form small groups to work intensively on projects in collaboration with neighborhood leaders and residents in improving their situation. Presentations will be made at community meetings in early December and late April.
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School of Natural Resources & Environment
NRE 449 Organizational Theory and Change
Time: TuTh 8:30-10 am 3556 DANA
Instructor: Romani
Class meets: Jan. 6 - Apr. 20
This course explores how different types of organizations and organizational arrangements can influence organizational decision-making, behavior, and outcomes in complex political arenas, such as endangered species recovery, protected area management, risk assessment, community forestry, and community-based resource management and development.
NRE 512 Ethics of Corporate Management
Time: TTh 2:10-3:40 pm R1210 BUS
Instructor: Hess
Class meets: Mar. 9- Apr. 19
This course introduces students to the complex ethical problems associated with the management of large business organizations under conditions of rapid economic change and intense global competition. It focuses on the responsibilities of senior executives to the various constituents of the firm-customers, employees, owners, creditors, suppliers, distributors, local residents, national citizens and global inhabitants-and on the treatment of those constituencies that can be considered to be "right" and "proper" and "fair".
NRE 536 Module on Environmental Mediation
Time: F 1:00-5:00 pm & Sa 8:00 am-5 pm 2024 DANA
Instructor: Wondolleck & Yaffee
Class meets:
This course is an intensive 20-hour module that develops a student's skills in mediation as they can be applied to the resolution of environmental and other public disputes. It will help a student to: assess the appropriateness of a mediation strategy; understand the group dynamics and incentives that make mediation challenging; design a negotiation process for multiparty disputes; carry out a mediation strategy both at the negotiating table and between meetings; and deal with difficult mediation challenges that occur in process design and management.
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School of Public Health
HMP 602 Survey of the U.S. Health Care System
Time: TTh 11:00 am-1 pm 1755 SPH1
Instructor: Lichtenstein
Class meets: Jan. 6 - Apr. 20
Analysis of current organizational arrangements and patterns for provision and financing of medical care services in United States. Topics include need, access and use of services; issues related to health professionals and health facilities; health care costs; quality assessment and assurance and managed care and health care financing.
HMP 603 Managing Health Care Organizations
Time: MW 11:30 am-1:00 pm 1655 SPH1A
Instructor: Lemak
Class meets: Jan. 6 - Apr. 20
Comprehensive review of modern health care delivery institutions and how they respond to their environment. The institution will be viewed as an open system with operational subsystems. Students will leave with the ability to evaluate any real subsystem in terms of functions and performance measurement.
HMP 606 Managerial Accounting for Health Care Administrators
Time: TTh 10:00-11:30 am 1690 SPH1A
Instructor: Smith
Class meets: Jan. 6 - Apr. 20
Concepts and techniques of managerial accounting for generalist health care administrators. Topics covered include full cost measurement, differential cost measurement and analysis, sources of revenue, price setting, budgeting and control, costs and decision-making fund accounting.
HMP 616 Understanding Organizations
Time: TTh 11:30 am-1:00 pm 1123 SPH2
Instructor: Myers
Class meets: Jan. 6 - Apr. 20
This course provides an overview of key issues confronting modern organizations, with an emphasis on healthcare organizations but attention to supplier, customer, and other partnering organizations. The issues will be studied from several perspectives to familiarize students preparing for work in health care organizations with a working understanding of both organizational dynamics and approaches to understanding them. Students completing the course should understand fundamentals of how organizations are formed, governed, designed, and improved. They will also learn how workers and organizations relate to each other, and how organizations relate to their environment and other organizations.
HMP 620 Understanding the Structure and Management of Nonprofit Health Organizations
Time: TTh 11:30 am-1 pm 1122 SPH2
Instructor: Banaszak-Holl
Class meets: Jan. 6 - Apr. 20
Nonprofit organizations face unique challenges because of their ownership, including greater needs to motivate employees through culture, to manage volunteer workforces and complex stakeholder relations within communities. This course will focus on the analysis of the goals, environmental conditions and organizational structures of specifically nonprofit health organizations, including a variety of smaller (and largely, non-health services) community-based nonprofits. This course is explicitly targeted to meet the needs of those interested in policy and those who may manage non-health services organizations.
HMP 653 Law and Public Health
Time: MW 11:30 am-1 pm 3755 SPH1
Instructor: Douglas
Class meets: Jan. 6 - Apr. 20
The purposes of this course are to examine the legal context of the relationship between the individual and the community, and to understand public health regulation in the context of a market-driven system. The goals of the course are for students to understand generally: constitutional authority and limits on governmental intervention in public health (i.e., individual rights vs. society's rights); the functions of and interactions between courts, legislatures, and regulators; how law will affect students as strategic thinkers in public health positions; how to recognize legal issues and communicate with attorneys; and the process of public health regulation and potential legal barriers to public health intervention strategies. Specific topics will vary, but will usually include: the nature and scope of public health authority; constitutional constraints on public health initiatives; tobacco control; youth violence; injury prevention; the spread of communicable disease; and regulating environmental risk.
HMP 657 Ethical Issues in Health Services Management
Time: TTh 1:00-2:30 pm 2695 SPH1A
Instructor: Griffith
Class meets: Jan. 6 - Apr. 20
This course will systematically explore important ethical frontiers of healthcare- places where our unusual ethical assumptions do not give a clear answer, or give an answer that a significant number of people might disagree with. It will address between 15 to 20 frontiers..
HMP 684 The Politics of Health Services Policy
Time: MW 11:30am-1:00 pm 1152 SPH2
Instructor: Greer
Class meets: Jan. 6 - Apr. 20
Understanding politics is crucial for understanding a health care organization's environment and determining its strategy. Whether through payment structures, covered plans, safety regulation or simple zoning conflicts, governments shape health care delivery. This course equips students to understand and influence American politics. It presents the basic institutions and political strategies of contemporary health policymaking, focusing on the politics of coverage expansion at the state and federal levels and other current political developments. Major topics will include analyzing the structures and lessons of various federal coverage programs and student-led research into the politics of state health coverage schemes.
HMP 685 The Politics of Public Health Policy
Time: MW 10:00-11:30 am 1170 SPH2
Instructor: Greer
Class meets: Jan. 6 - Apr. 20
Policy requires politics: behind every positive or negative decision governments make, there are elected politicians, politically skilled officials, journalists, and other stakeholders. Understanding the world of politics is crucial to influencing and implementing policies for public health. Indeed, it is impossible to understand public health policy outside of its political context. This class presents the basic institutions and politics of contemporary public health policymaking through studies of institutions and contemporary policy debates. Through analysis of case studies including obesity, state health plans, smoking and pharmaceutical regulations, students will explore the influence of politics on the definitions and decisions of public health issues.
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School of Music, Theatre and Dance
THTREMUS 385 Performing Arts Management
Time: MW 11:00 am-12:00 pm B207 WDC
Instructor: Tupac
Class meets: Jan. 6 - Apr. 20
An overall look at the administrative aspects of the performing arts, using a Theatre company as the standard model, but with a look at orchestras, dance, and opera. Exploration of theatre development, profit vs. non-profit companies, role of board of directors, unions, budgeting, marketing, public relations, and fundraising.
THTREMUS 386 Practicum in Performing Arts Management
Time: M 2:30-4:30 pm TBA
Instructor: Kuras
Class meets: Jan.6 - Apr. 20
