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  • POLS 3320: Nonprofits and The Public Sector

    3.00 Credits
    Utah Valley University

    Prerequisite(s): (ENGL 1010 or ENGH 1005) and University Advanced Standing. Explores the historical background, development, role, and purposes of nonprofit organizations. Expands awareness of the scope and breadth of the nonprofit sector in the United States, and examines the inner workings of nonprofit organizations as the foundation for further study.
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  • POLS 3330: Environmental Politics and Policy

    3.00 Credits
    Utah Valley University

    Prerequisite(s): University Advanced Standing. Examines current environmental problems' political character, attempts to comprehend their causes, and discusses how governments, organizations, movements, communities, and individuals are responding to environmental degradation and the rapidly escalating climate crisis. Identifies and analyzes the guiding principles that inform policy choices and the different tools available to policymakers to address these challenges, with a focused examination of state government, federalism, and the roles of the three branches of the national government.
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  • POLS 3340: Public Innovation

    3.00 Credits
    Utah Valley University

    Prerequisite(s): (ENGL 1010 or ENGH 1005) and University Advanced Standing. Presents an overview of the background, methods, and, techniques associated with public sector innovation. Equips students who wish to be innovators with the knowledge and skills necessary to imagine and implement innovative solutions to public problems.
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  • POLS 3350: Health Politics and Policy

    3.00 Credits
    Utah Valley University

    Prerequisite(s): University Advanced Standing. Explores the politics of public health and health care policy in the United States, with a focus on current issues and controversies. Compares health policy in the United States to other countries on a variety of issues, including access and cost. Examines various legal issues surrounding health policy.
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  • POLS 3360: The Politics of Economic Inequality

    3.00 Credits
    Utah Valley University

    Prerequisite(s): University Advanced Standing. Explores the relationship between economic inequality and the American political system. Examines how the public has responded to the growth of income inequality. Explores public policies that are closely connected to growing inequality and analyze previous policy debates concerning economic inequality in the contemporary United States.
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  • POLS 3370: Leading Cities

    3.00 Credits
    Utah Valley University

    Prerequisite(s): (ENGL 1010 or ENGH 1005) and University Advanced Standing. Provides an introduction to and overview of what leadership is within the public sector. Examines the skills required to successfully lead and manage cities for both elected and appointed leaders (mayors, city managers, city council members, etc.). Considers related topics, including the diverse functions of a city and common challenges faced by city leaders.
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  • POLS 3380: Local Economic Development

    3.00 Credits
    Utah Valley University

    Prerequisite(s): (ENGL 1010 or ENGH 1005) and University Advanced Standing. Introduces the context, theory, process, and practice of local economic development policy. Examines facets of local economic development such as tax increment finance, job creation, economic analysis, business expansion and retention, and economic gardening.
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  • POLS 3390: Urban Planning

    3.00 Credits
    Utah Valley University

    Prerequisite(s): University Advanced Standing. Provides a broad introduction to the field of urban planning as a profession, a process of decision-making, and a government function. Explores the limitations and benefits of planning, primarily in areas such as climate adaptation, economic development, and natural disasters.
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  • POLS 3400: American Foreign Policy

    3.00 Credits
    Utah Valley University

    Prerequisite(s): POLS 1100, POLS 2100, and University Advanced Standing. Examines the development and theories of American foreign policy with special emphasis on the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Surveys the process by which American foreign policy is formulated and examines major events and trends in policy since World War II.
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  • POLS 3410: Globalization and Sustainable Development

    3.00 Credits
    Utah Valley University

    Prerequisite(s): University Advanced Standing. Examines major measurements of sustainability indicators, approaches and institutions in disaster management, and the roles of environmental assessment, management and policy. Considers the impacts of infrastructure development, economics, and market failures, in addition to major approaches and linkages to poverty reduction. Examines the importance of governance, democratic institutions and civil society for sustainable development (SD). Considers the role of international financial and political institutions; international environmental agreements for SD.
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