• POLS 5500: Intrnshp: Publ Adm

  1.00 - 6.00 Credits

  University of Wyoming

  
  Educationally-oriented assignments for work in selected public agencies, with tutorial types of supervision. Offered S/U only. Prerequisite: consent of instructor.
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• POLS 5520: Public Opinion

  3.00 Credits

  University of Wyoming

  
  Deals with natures of a public in a democracy and means of forming and manipulating public opinion. Emphasizes the role of public opinion as an essential ingredient of the policy-making process in popular government. Dual listed with POLS 4520. Prerequisite: 9 hours of political science including POLS 1000 and consent of the instructor.
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• POLS 5530: 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 5540: Publ Pol Perspect

  3.00 Credits

  University of Wyoming

  
  Acquaints students with the underlying structure and dynamics of public policy formulation, implementation, and evaluation at the state, local, and federal levels. Drawing on a number of analytic approaches, the course seeks to understand this complex political phenomenon in the context of the institutions that drive it. Prerequisite: graduate standing.
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• POLS 5555: 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 5560: PA in Lit & Film

  3.00 Credits

  University of Wyoming

  
  Examines the ways novelists and directors have viewed public administration, the accuracy of portrayals, how views have changed, how novelists and directors have helped create and disparage the rise of the administrative state, and types of administrative arrangements favored. Prerequisites: POLS 5000.
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• POLS 5570: Graduate Readings

  1.00 - 3.00 Credits

  University of Wyoming

  
  Special programs of readings of government and politics will be outlined to meet needs of individual students. Prerequisite: graduate standing or consent of instructor.
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• POLS 5600: 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 contexts. 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 the conditions that produced that Holocaust are present in Western society. Dual listed with POLS 4600; cross listed with CRMJ 4600. Prerequisite: POLS 1000 and SOC 1000.
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• POLS 5640: Pol Phil Ancnt/Med

  3.00 Credits

  University of Wyoming

  
  Surveys political philosophy from Classical Greek period to Machiavelli. Dual listed with POLS 4640. Prerequisite: POLS 2460, or POLS 3600, or consent of the instructor.
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• POLS 5650: Pol Phil: Modern

  3.00 Credits

  University of Wyoming

  
  Surveys political philosophy from Machiavelli to present. Dual listed with POLS 4650. Prerequisite: POLS 2460 or 3600.
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