• POLS 4465: Survey of Nonprofit Sector

  3.00 Credits

  University of Wyoming

  
  This foundational course is designed to give students of diverse backgrounds a common framework for understanding the nonprofit sector in the United States and globally. Students in this course will identify and interpret key theories, issues, and challenges in the nonprofit world and will consider the implications for practice. Dual listed with POLS 5465.
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• POLS 4475: Pols?of?Nat?Resources?Lat?Amer

  3.00 Credits

  University of Wyoming

  
  This course examines major trends in resource extraction, management, and conservation in Latin America, and the politics surrounding those trends, from theoretical, social, political, economic, and ecological perspectives and through a variety of grounded case studies. The theories and concepts we study are applicable to resource politics beyond Latin America. Dual listed with POLS 5475. Cross listed with INST 4475. Prerequisites: 9 hours of international studies or social science coursework and junior standing.
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• POLS 4520: Public Opinion

  3.00 Credits

  University of Wyoming

  
  Deals with natures of a public in democracy and means of forming and manipulating public opinion. Emphasizes role of public opinion as essential ingredient of the policy-making process in popular government. Dual listed with POLS 5520. Prerequisite: 9 hours of political science including POLS 1000 and consent of the instructor.
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• POLS 4530: U.S. Congress

  3.00 Credits

  University of Wyoming

  
  Analyze aspects of the U.S. Congress, including election of congressmen, legislative process, congressional-presidential relations, and the influence of political parties, interest groups, and constituents on the legislative process. Prerequisite: 9 hours of political science.
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• POLS 4550: Internship in Govt

  1.00 - 6.00 Credits

  University of Wyoming

  
  Integrates practical political experience with academic knowledge. Students are expected to participate in specifically assigned duties and observe broader activities of the sponsoring organization; then, reflect upon this participation and observation in the form of written assignments. Internship credit can be earned for work in political campaigns, Wyoming Legislature or government services. Offered S/U only. Prerequisite: 9 hours of political science.
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• POLS 4555: Political Ecology

  3.00 Credits

  University of Wyoming

  
  Political ecology is a multidisciplinary field of study that emphasizes the role of politics, power relations, and inequality in the study of human-environment relations. In this course we will consider how political ecology can help us rethink environmental knowledge and problem solving in a variety of contexts locally and globally. Prerequisite: 9 hours of international studies or social science coursework.
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• POLS 4560: Wash Sem Prog

  15.00 Credits

  University of Wyoming

  
  Provides students with paid internships in Washington, D.C., in either congressional offices or federal agencies. Selection into the program is very competitive and is made eight months prior to service. Offered for satisfactory/unsatisfactory only. Prerequisites: POLS 1000 and 6 additional hours of political science courses.
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• POLS 4600: Political Violence

  3.00 Credits

  University of Wyoming

  
  Examines causes and consequences of violence. About one-third is devoted to causes including animal violence, human nature and social norms. Remainder examines causes and consequences of violence in particular context. Description of each course project can be found in the syllabus. The final project is an extensive review of the Holocaust in which students are asked to analyze this act of mass murder, then argue whether conditions that produced the Holocaust are present in Western society. Dual listed with POLS 5600; cross listed with CRMJ 4600. Prerequisites: POLS 1000 and SOC 1000.
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• POLS 4630: Gender & Politics

  3.00 Credits

  University of Wyoming

  
  Using theoretical perspectives of pluralism, elitism, and intersectionality, this course examines how sex and gender operate in U.S. political processes, including elections, parties, interest groups, and social movements. Specific focus will be on women in politics and analyses of power dynamics in shaping marginalized identities; sex/gender, race and ethnicity, sexual orientation, class and ability. Prerequisites: GWST/ENGL 1080, GWST 2000, or POLS 1000; at least 9 combined credit hours in POLS or GWST, and junior standing. Cross listed with POLS 4630.
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• POLS 4640: Pol Phil Ancnt/Med

  3.00 Credits

  University of Wyoming

  
  Surveys political philosophy from Classical Greek period to Machiavelli. Dual listed with POLS 5640. Prerequisite: POLS 2460, or POLS 3600, or permission of instructor.
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