• POLS 3010: Political Analysis II

  3.00 Credits

  Utah Valley University

  
  Prerequisite(s): POLS 3000 and University Advanced Standing. Covers advanced political data analysis techniques, including: advanced multiple regression analysis and diagnostics, measurement reliability and validity, the use of statistical-analysis software and presentation of analysis results.
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• POLS 3020: Public Program Analysis

  3.00 Credits

  Utah Valley University

  
  Prerequisite(s): University Advanced Standing. Serves as an introduction to evaluation methodology and evaluation tools commonly used to assess publicly funded programs. Provides training and practice in the field of public program analysis. Familiarizes students with different types of program evaluation, including needs assessment, formative research, process evaluation, monitoring of outputs and outcomes, impact assessment, and cost analysis.
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• POLS 3030: State and Local Government

  3.00 Credits

  Utah Valley University

  
  Prerequisite(s): University Advanced Standing. Examines the operation and structure of American State and Local Government with special attention to the Utah experience. Explores the local political process, administrative practices, and intergovernmental relations.
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• POLS 3040: Survey Research and Design Methods

  3.00 Credits

  Utah Valley University

  
  Prerequisite(s): University Advanced Standing. Focuses on the role of polling in the political process. Introduces the theory and methods used in survey research. Includes how survey-research firms produce polls, analysis of polling for campaigns and public opinion, the psychology of survey response, survey construction, and sampling. Covers other data-collection techniques commonly used in politics and political science such as focus groups and experiments.
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• POLS 3050: Experimental Methods in Political Science

  3.00 Credits

  Utah Valley University

  
  Prerequisite(s): POLS 3000 and University Advanced Standing. Provides an overview of experimental methodology currently being utilized in the field of Political Science. Dissects the multiple stages of experimental research design and data analysis. Teaches critical thinking in terms of the benefits and dangers of causal inference using experimental research.
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• POLS 3060: Qualitative Analysis

  3.00 Credits

  Utah Valley University

  
  Prerequisite(s): POLS 3000 and University Advanced Standing. Offers a hands-on opportunity for students to experience the practice of qualitative research. Provides training and practice in a broad set of qualitative methods as applied to public sector organizations, such as state and federal agencies, municipalities, and nonprofit organizations.
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• POLS 3070: Policy Analysis

  3.00 Credits

  Utah Valley University

  
  Prerequisite(s): POLS 3310 and University Advanced Standing. Provides an introduction to the objectives, functions, and techniques of policy analysis in democratic societies, with an emphasis on the United States. Emphasizes policy analysis in government organizations. Considers policy analysis in nongovernmental settings, such as nonprofit organizations and think tanks.
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• POLS 3100: Survey of International Terrorism

  3.00 Credits

  Utah Valley University

  
  Prerequisite(s): University Advanced Standing. A survey course of political violence and terrorism in the modern world. Studies terrorism and other forms of political violence and how they relate to fundamentalism, such as the Shiite Islamic, and Christian identity movements in the United States and Western Europe. Examines the concept of religious and political terrorism, as well as the ideologies, tactics, and organizations common to most terrorist groups.
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• POLS 3120: Political Parties

  3.00 Credits

  Utah Valley University

  
  Prerequisite(s): (POLS 1100 or instructor approval) and University Advanced Standing. Examines the American political party system with special attention given to the history, structure, functions, and role of American political parties.
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• POLS 3130: American Political Geography

  3.00 Credits

  Utah Valley University

  
  Prerequisite(s): University Advanced Standing. Considers the extent to which American government and politics are influenced by geography-based policies, institutions, and identities. Analyzes the theories and methods that have been developed to explain the geographical elements of politics and governance. Examines topics such as legislative redistricting, single-member districts, place-based identities and attachments, localism vs. nationalization, and the urban-rural political divide in elections.
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