These courses may have been taken by previous Social Work students or may have been identified as of possible interest to Social Work students. Some courses may be restricted and/or not open to Social Work students. There are many other courses not listed offered elsewhere in the university that may be of interest. Interest in courses numbered below 500 should be checked for graduate level status since many are only offered for undergraduate credit. You can check this by contacting the department offering the course or contacting the SSW Registrar.
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| School: | Public Policy |
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| Credits: | 3 |
| Prerequisites: | Open to SW students a week or so after Ford students enroll. Interested students should email the instructor and cc Sarah Beyer (sabeyer@umich.edu), the Registrar at the Ford School, to ask for permission to enroll in these courses. |
| Course Description: | This course deals with the economics of international trade policy, most obviously tariffs on imports but also a variety of non-tariff barriers and other policies that impact international trade. The topic has increased in importance under President Trump, and we will devote a lot of attention to the policies he has implemented and the responses to those policies by other countries. We will also examine the details of how trade policies are decided and implemented in the United States, the European Union, and other countries, and we will study the mechanisms that exist internationally to constrain and guide these policies, through the World Trade Organization and through negotiated trade agreements. About half the course will deal in some depth with the use of economic models to quantify the effects of trade policies, while the other half will deal with institutions, laws, and policies. The structure of the course will be very similar to what it has been in the past, as can be seen from last year’s course website that is publicly available online through my own website. The major topics will likely be the same, but with readings dealing with the more recent events that have occurred during the year leading up to the course. As in the past, students will be expected to write three papers (in assigned groups of 2 or 3), take two exams (a midterm and a final), and participate in class discussion. |
| Section | Instructor | Days | Location | U-M Class # |
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| 001 | Deardorff, Alan | Mon, Wed | 1220 WEILL | 23746 |
University of Michigan
School of Social Work
1080 South University Avenue
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1106