• POLS 5320: Pub Pol Theor & Ap

  3.00 Credits

  University of Utah

  
  Graduate students should register for POLS 6320 and will be held to higher standards and/or additional work. Introduction to policy process in United States; needs and demands for public action; organization and nature of political support; process and problems of decision making in major policy areas. Recommended Prerequisite: POLS 1100.
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• POLS 5321: Health Policy

  3.00 Credits

  University of Utah

  
  Graduate students should register for POLS 6321 and will be held to higher standards and/or additional work. Introduction to health policy issues in the United States; needs and demands for public action; organization and nature of political support; process and problems of decision making in health policy areas.
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• POLS 5322: Enviro/Sustain Policy

  3.00 Credits

  University of Utah

  
  Graduate students should register for POLS 6322 and will be held to higher standards and/or additional work. Ways government action or inaction affects problems of sustainability, resource scarcity, environmental health and safety, natural aesthetics, and economic growth.
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• POLS 5323: Policy Analysis

  3.00 Credits

  University of Utah

  
  Course addresses both the theoretical and practical aspects of performing policy analysis. Students will examine current policy issues from the perspective of federal, state, and local governments, as well as from those of non-governmental and advocacy organizations. Students will be introduced to repositories of data, information and analysis available on policy topics, and will conduct research using both primary and secondary data.
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• POLS 5324: Disability Studies

  3.00 Credits

  University of Utah

  
  An overview of the significance of disability in society and culture by viewing it from various perspectives. The course will explore theories and models that examine health, economic, social, political, and cultural factors that define disability and influence personal and collective responses to disability. Students will participate in a service learning project that will help to integrate key concepts from the course and their own disciplines.
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• POLS 5400: Comp. Institutions

  3.00 Credits

  University of Utah

  
  The rules of the game, also known as political institutions, make a difference for who wins and who loses, for what kinds of policies are chosen, and for crucial policy outcomes such as the health of an economy or the security of a nation. This course will examine particular institutions, such as electoral systems, types of executives (presidential, parliamentary, semi-presidential), legislatures, federalism, administrative oversight, and parties through a comparative frame of analysis. Prerequisites: POLS 2100 OR POLS 2200.
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• POLS 5410: Rise & Fall Democracy

  3.00 Credits

  University of Utah

  
  Graduate students should register for POL S 6410 and will be held to higher standards and/or additional work. A cross-regional comparison of the problems and results of new democracies in industrializing societies.
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• POLS 5420: European Union

  3.00 Credits

  University of Utah

  
  Graduate students should register for POLS 6420 and will be held to higher standards and/or additional work. This course is an analysis of the European Union with emphasis upon the organization's historical development, its acquisition of member states' governmental functions, and the prospects for the organization's future as an economic and political international actor. Recommended Prerequisites: POLS 2100 OR POLS 2200.
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• POLS 5440: Nation/Ethnc Conflict

  3.00 Credits

  University of Utah

  
  This course seeks to address one of the crucial issues of our age: the cultural pluralism embedded in most civil societies and the integrative impulses and the forces of disintegration - nationalism and ethnicity.
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• POLS 5450: Polit Violnce Terrorism

  3.00 Credits

  University of Utah

  
  Discussion of theories of violence from psychological, socioeconomic, religious, and other perspectives. This course will also focus on the role of the media and state-sponsored violence.
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