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Reading lists and syllabi from university courses on issues of poverty, including work, family, health and other topics; research methodology and program evaluation; and related topics.

We welcome additions to this list from NPC-affiliated faculty. Please contact npcinfo@umich.edu.

Syllabus: PUBPOL 495: Seminar on Social Welfare Policy in the U.S. Sheldon Danziger, H. J. Meyer Distinguished University Professor of Public Policy. (Fall 2007)

Syllabus: PUBPOL 285-11: Policy Analysis and Public Assistance. Michael Wiseman, Research Professor of Public Policy and Economics, George Washington University. (Spring 2007)

Syllabus: V93.510: Contemporary Social Problems. W. Jean Yeung, Professor of Sociology, New York University. (Spring 2007)

Syllabus: PAM612: Poverty, Public Policy, and the Life Course. Daniel T. Lichter, Professor of Policy Analysis and Management, Cornell University. (Spring 2007)

Syllabus: HLE512: Proseminar on Inequality and Social Policy. Sandy Jencks, Malcolm Wiener Professor of Social Policy; Kathryn Edin, Visiting Professor; and Torben Iversen, Harold Hitchings Burbank Professor of Political Economy, Harvard University. (Spring 2007)

Syllabus: SW501: Poverty and Inequality. Jennifer Romich, Assistant Professor, School of Social Work, University of Washington. (Winter 2007)

Syllabus: HLE511: Proseminar on Inequality and Social Policy. Sandy Jencks, Malcolm Wiener Professor of Social Policy, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. (Fall 2006)

Syllabus: T6801: Social Welfare Policy. Marcia J. Carlson, Assistant Professor of Social Work and Sociology, Columbia University. (Fall 2006)

Syllabus: PPA 781: Introduction to Social Policy/Social Welfare Policy. Tim Smeeding, Maxwell Professor of Public Policy and Director, Center for Policy Research Syracuse University (Fall 2006 )

Syllabus: PA 388K: American Social Policy Challenges. Kenneth Apfel, Professor Public Policy, University of Texas-Austin (Fall 2005)

Syllabus: CSDE 595B: Demography, Poverty and Child Well-being. Robert Plotnick, Professor of Public Policy, University of Washington. (Spring 2006)

Reading List: Economics 495: Economics of Poverty and Income Distribution. Steven Haider, Associate Professor of Economics, Michigan State University. (Fall 2005)

Syllabus: PUBPOL 677: Immigration Policy. Ann Chih Lin, Associate Professor, Dept. of Political Science and Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, University of Michigan. (Fall 2003)

Syllabus: Poverty and Welfare. Doug Besharov, Professor of Public Policy, University of Maryland and American Enterprise Institute. (Fall 2004)

Syllabus: Sociology 669G: Poverty and Welfare. John Iceland, Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Maryland (Fall 2005)

Reading List: Poverty in America: Empirical Trends and Theoretical Explanations, a 2004 National Poverty Center Summer Workshop.

Syllabus: PUBPOL 736/Political Science 736/DOC 858: Poverty, Inequality and Public Policy. Mary Corcoran, Professor, School of Social Work and Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, University of Michigan. (Fall 2005)

Syllabus: PAM 621: Poverty, Public Policy, and the Life Course. Daniel T. Lichter, Professor of Policy Analysis and Management, Cornell University. (Spring 2006)

Syllabus: Social Work 846/Political Science 846: Poverty, the Underclass, and Public Policy. Mary Corcoran, Professor of Public Policy and Political Science, University of Michigan. (Fall 2005)

Syllabus: PUBPOL 636: Program Evaluation. Robert F. Schoeni, Associate Professor, Dept. of Economics and Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, University of Michigan. (Fall 2003)

Syllabus: PUBPOL 694: Proseminar in Qualitative Methods. Ann Chih Lin. Associate Professor, Dept. of Political Science and Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, University of Michigan. (Winter 2002)

Syllabus: HLE 512/Gov 2340/Soc 296b: Proseminar on Inequality and Social Policy. Families, Neighborhoods, and the Welfare State. Christopher Jencks, Malcolm Wiener Professor of Social Policy, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. (Fall 2003)

Syllabus: PUBPOL 836: Seminar on Poverty and Public Policy. Rebecca M. Blank, Dean of the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, Henry Carter Adams Collegiate Professor of Public Policy, and Professor of Economics, University of Michigan. (Winter 2004)

Syllabus: CAAS/SOC 634: The Urban Ethnographic Tradition: Theory, Method, Standpoint. Alford Young, Jr. Associate Professor of Sociology and CAAS (Center for Afro-American and African Studies), University of Michigan. (Winter 2004)

Syllabus: T6801: Social Welfare Policy. Marcy Carlson, Associate Professor, Columbia University School of Social Work (Fall 2007)

Syllabus: Social Work 501: Poverty and Inequality. Jennifer Romich, Assistant Professor, School of Social Work, University of Washington
(Fall 2007)

Syllabus: Sociology 666: Poverty and Welfare. John Iceland, Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Maryland (Fall 2007)