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Policy+Data
In government, policy, and nonprofits, professionals use data science to evaluate programs and inform decisions. This pathway is well suited to students who want to combine technical skills with civic engagement and social impact.
African American Studies (AAS)
- AAS 259 – Race, Place, and Political Economy: This course focuses on dominant themes in political economy, geography, and behavior literature in the post-Civil Rights Movement era. The intersection of race and class at the local level is addressed while exploring issues of institutional discrimination and redistribution.
American Studies (AMST)
- AMST 336 – Migrants & Borders in the US: This course considers how migrants, the construction of borders, and the formation of transnational communities have shaped the making of the United States. Central themes include class, gender, (il)legality, labor, politics and race/ethnicity.
Environmental Sciences (ENVS)
- ENVS 326 – Climate Change and Society: This course draws upon the Conference of the Parties (COP) to the United Nations Framework on Climate Change (UNFCCC) as a way to explain issues related to the science, policy, and business of climate change from an interdisciplinary perspective.
- ENVS 426 – U.N. Climate Change Conference: This class is offered to students selected to participate in a one-week fieldwork trip to the U.N. Climate Change Negotiation as a part of Emory's delegation. The course explores interdisciplinary climate change issues from science, policy, and business perspectives.
Political Science (POLS)
- POLS 111 – Principles of Political Science: The course is organized around the following questions: What is politics, and what is political science? How do political groups form? How do groups make decisions? How are group decisions implemented? We approach these questions using ideas that are found across the sub-fields of political science.
- POLS 120 – Intro to Comparative Politics: Political systems of major nations in comparative perspective.
- POLS 228 – Environmental Policy with Lab: Topics include the history of federal policymaking, policy tools and controversies in environmental policy. Field trips and weekly lab required.
- POLS 300 – Social Choice and Elections: This course takes a mathematical approach to the study of voting procedures by considering the axiomatic properties procedures satisfy. Topics include apportionment, how agendas are optimally constructed, and how systems can (or can't!) reconcile individual liberty with the collective good.
- POLS 310 – Research: Statistical Modeling: An introduction to the various approaches to using statistics to study social phenomena.
- POLS 331 – Latin American Politics: Overview of the major political systems in Latin America; emphasis on patterns of authority; development of groups; the nature of institutions; political culture; forces of change; and the role of the state.
- POLS 342 – Congressional Politics: Constitutional responsibilities of the federal legislature. Effects of internal procedures and organization, external links, and member goals on congressional decisions.
- POLS 348 – Elections and Voting: Voter and candidate decision-making during primary and general elections, patterns of partisan support in the electorate, and factors affecting campaign strategy in American elections.
- POLS 360 – Public Policy: How national public policies develop. Focus on who American governing actors and elites are, what they control, how they work together, and how issues thereby develop, recur, and evolve into policy.
- POLS 363 – Public Opinion: The nature, sources, and consequences of Americans' political preferences and beliefs. Topics include public opinion research methods, political socialization, self interest, reference groups, and voting behavior.
- POLS 366 – Poverty in America: Three fundamental questions about poverty in America will be assessed: Who are the poor and how has the composition of the poverty population changed recently? What role do politics and ideology play in assessing the needs of the poor? What has been the effect of government programs and policies?
- POLS 369 – Public Policy Analysis: Overview of the quantitative and qualitative methodologies employed by analysts in determining whether public programs and policies work. Attention is also given to research utilization and the role of analysis in the policymaking process.
- POLS 374 – Research: War and Politics: This class covers a variety of topics regarding the nature, causes, prosecution, and consequences of war. Specific topics discussed include counterinsurgency, deterrence, public opinion and war, economic development and war, democracy and war, civil-military relations, civil war, ethnicity and war.
- POLS 376 – Game Theory I: Introduction to game theory and strategic thinking. Foundational building blocks of non-cooperative games including normal and strategic form games, Nash equilibrium concept, various equilibrium concept refinements including backwards induction, sub-game perfection, and perfect Bayesian equilibrium.
TBA
TBA
- Cliff Carrubba
- Kevin Quinn
- Hun Chung
- John Patty
- Weihua An
- Blake Fleisher
- Tommy Pierce
- Renee Ducre
- Amy Sharma
- Teresa Rivero