24 courses with the subject POGO, each shown exactly as we captured it from the college's catalog, with every element we hold. Where the wording looks broken, that is our reading of the catalog, not the college's text.
POGO 511Introductory Data Analysis for Policy and Government3
Introduces fundamental statistical analysis for analyzing policy, government and other social science data. Focuses on problem definition, problem solving, and how to communicate results to general audience under conditions of uncertainty in public sector. Provides the core foundation for advanced graduate work in data analytics using contemporary statistical software packages.Offered by Schar Public Policy/Admin. May not be repeated for credit.Registration Restrictions: Required Prerequisite: minimum score of 1 in 'Statistical Screening Exam'.
Focuses on selected topics in policy and government not covered in fixed-content Schar school courses.Offered by Schar Public Policy/Admin. May be repeated within the term.Specialized Designation: Topic VariesRegistration Restrictions: Enrollment limited to students with a class of Advanced to Candidacy, Graduate, Junior Plus, Non-Degree or Senior Plus.
POGO 580Topics: Advanced Skills for Policy Professionals1-3
Practical seminar focusing on development of advanced qualitative and quantitative skills for the professional policy world.Offered by Schar Public Policy/Admin. May be repeated within the term for a maximum 18 credits.Specialized Designation: Topic VariesRegistration Restrictions: Enrollment limited to students with a class of Advanced to Candidacy, Graduate, Junior Plus, Non-Degree or Senior Plus.
Subject
POGO
Credits (min)
1
Credits (max)
3
Credit unit
credits
Type
course
Repeatable
May be repeated within the term for a maximum 18 credits.
POGO 611Advanced Data Analysis for Policy and Government3
Introduces advanced statistical techniques to analyze policy, government and other social science data. Covers classical regression methods and their application to public policy analysis. Covers linear and non-linear regressions using cross sectional, time-series and panel data, and problems associated with applications including specification error, multicollinearity, qualitative variables, heteroskedasticity, serial correlation, and structural identification. Offered by Schar Public Policy/Admin. May not be repeated for credit. Equivalent to GOVT 712, PUAD 612, PUBP 705.Registration Restrictions: Required Prerequisites: (POGO 511B-, 511XS, PUAD 511B-, 511XS, PUBP 511B-, 511XS, GOVT 511B- or 511XS).B- Requires minimum grade of B-.XS Requires minimum grade of XS.
Practical exploration of assessment techniques used in studying results of public programs and policies, including evaluation of implementation strategies and impacts.Offered by Schar Public Policy/Admin. May not be repeated for credit. Equivalent to PUAD 646, PUBP 713.Registration Restrictions: Required Prerequisites: (POGO 511C, 511XS, PUAD 511C, 511XS, PUBP 511C, 511XS, GOVT 511C, 511XS, HAP 602C, 602XS, 719C or 719XS).C Requires minimum grade of C.XS Requires minimum grade of XS.
Provides a rigorous interdisciplinary introduction to the theory, practices, and history of international development projects. Covers the interplay between economic development theory and the design of international development projects. Provides immersion in skills such as development project implementation and evaluation techniques.Offered by Schar Public Policy/Admin. May not be repeated for credit.Registration Restrictions: Enrollment limited to students with a class of Advanced to Candidacy, Graduate or Non-Degree.
Interdisciplinary examination of economic and human development in world economy and the analytical frameworks for assessing important issues that arise in development process. Relates these issues to the broad concept of human security and considers policy responses to complex challenges, including in the areas of population, health, education, and rural development.Offered by Schar Public Policy/Admin. May not be repeated for credit.Registration Restrictions: Enrollment limited to students with a class of Advanced to Candidacy, Graduate or Non-Degree.
Provides students with a holistic, contextual, and global understanding of strategic trade, focusing on the use of trade policies and trade controls to manage modern security threats. Explores supply chain security, trade control systems, and compliance through readings, case studies, and practical exercises.Offered by Schar Public Policy/Admin. May not be repeated for credit.Registration Restrictions: Enrollment limited to students with a class of Advanced to Candidacy, Graduate or Non-Degree.
Focuses on the multinational firm (MNE) and examines the international activities of large companies as well as small and medium sized enterprises. Assesses how firms strategize across national borders and address the challenges posed by different governance structures, political economies, institutions and cultures. Theoretical concepts are applied to 'real' business situations and case studies.Offered by Schar Public Policy/Admin. May not be repeated for credit. Equivalent to ITRN 752.Registration Restrictions: Required Prerequisites: (ITRN 504B-, 504XS, PUBP 720B- or 720XS).B- Requires minimum grade of B-.XS Requires minimum grade of XS.
Presents a wide variety of country risk analysis methods used by corporations, financial institutions, governments, international organizations, specialized consulting groups, and publications. These methods are used to design policies, programs, and projects in the international arena. The course explores natural, commercial, economics, political and financial risk. It also provides a conceptual foundation for understanding the sources of risk, the impacts of risk on public and private sector activities, and the ways that risk can be successfully mitigated or managed.Offered by Schar Public Policy/Admin. May not be repeated for credit. Equivalent to ITRN 759.Registration Restrictions: Enrollment limited to students with a class of Advanced to Candidacy, Graduate or Non-Degree.
POGO 741Cyber Conflict and International Security3
Addresses emerging international relations, policy, doctrine, strategy, and operational issues associated with Computer Network Attack (CNA), Computer Network Defense (CND), and Computer Network Exploitation (CNE)— collectively referred to as cyber warfare. Provides a comprehensive perspective to enhance knowledge of cyber warfare conducted by both state and non-state actors.Offered by Schar Public Policy/Admin. May not be repeated for credit.Registration Restrictions: Enrollment limited to students with a class of Advanced to Candidacy, Graduate or Non-Degree.
Provides an overview of the U.S. Intelligence Community, its mission, organizational structure and challenges. Various intelligence disciplines (e.g. signals intelligence, human intelligence, geospatial intelligence, et.al.) are described and evaluated and the intelligence process and cycle outlined. Particular emphasis is placed on assessing the value of intelligence to planners, policymakers, and military operators. Examines how intelligence judgments are arrived at and how they can effectively be communicated to decision-makers.Offered by Schar Public Policy/Admin. May not be repeated for credit.Registration Restrictions: Enrollment limited to students with a class of Advanced to Candidacy, Graduate or Non-Degree.
Focuses on selected topics in policy and government not covered in fixed-content Schar school courses.Offered by Schar Public Policy/Admin. May be repeated within the term.Specialized Designation: Topic VariesRegistration Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Graduate or Non-Degree level students.
Examines the role that illicit trade assumes in international trade and commerce. The class examines diverse international illicit markets and their convergence. It analyzes the role of illicit trade in perpetuating insecurity and instability globally, conflicts,environmental degradation and how the most pervasive forms of illicit trade undermine economic development, peace and justice, and prosperity. Examines the actors involved in illicit commerce including corrupt officials, organized criminal organizations, terrorist groups, and complicit superfixers (market facilitators). Examines needed policies to stem growth, develop cross-border responses, capacities, and technologies to curb the proliferation of illicit trade.Offered by Schar Public Policy/Admin. May not be repeated for credit.Registration Restrictions: Enrollment limited to students with a class of Advanced to Candidacy, Graduate or Non-Degree.
Provides an overview of transnational crime, kleptocracy, and diverse forms of corruption and examines their political, economic, social, and environmental effects. Focuses on the growing problem of transnational crime in conflict regions, and efforts to develop effective economic development strategies including the UN's Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Addresses the inter-connections among transnational criminal organizations and gangs, corruption and terrorism. It analyzes diverse range of activities of transnational crime groups in both the legitimate and illegitimate economy and how their illicit trade fuels greater insecurity and instability across the world.Offered by Schar Public Policy/Admin. May not be repeated for credit.Registration Restrictions: Enrollment limited to students with a class of Advanced to Candidacy, Graduate or Non-Degree.
Examines the rapidly growing phenomenon of human smuggling and trafficking. Addresses the underlying causes and reasons for the growth of these phenomena and their far-reaching and diverse social, political and economic consequences globally. Transnational crime dimensions of the problem are a central component of the class including the human rights costs of this crime. The role of technology including online platforms and social media in its proliferation are discussed. The phenomenon is examined in conflict regions, developing, diverse developed as well as transitional societies.Offered by Schar Public Policy/Admin. May not be repeated for credit.Registration Restrictions: Enrollment limited to students with a class of Advanced to Candidacy, Graduate or Non-Degree.
This course will address the laws, regulations, policies and practices of US and International money laundering and financial crime. Coverage will include adjacencies such as sanctions, fraud, corruption and asset forfeiture and how the broad-based financial services industry complies their requirements.Offered by Schar Public Policy/Admin. May not be repeated for credit.Registration Restrictions: Enrollment limited to students with a class of Advanced to Candidacy, Graduate or Non-Degree.
POGO 793Big Data Analytics for Policy and Government3
Big data provides an exciting resource for policy and government. However, while their use in this context brings opportunities, it also creates unique analytical and computational needs and challenges. This course provides a fundamental understanding of these issues, and the tools and techniques used for big data analysis. Methods covered in the course include network analysis, geo-spatial computation, unstructured content mining, and supervised and unsupervised machine learning.Offered by Schar Public Policy/Admin. May not be repeated for credit.Registration Restrictions: Enrollment limited to students with a class of Advanced to Candidacy or Graduate.
Provides practical work experience in state, federal, or international agencies, or the private or non-profit sector. Requires written project integrating work experience and academic program. Requires permission of program director.Offered by Schar Public Policy/Admin. May not be repeated for credit. Equivalent to ITRN 780, PUBP 794.Recommended Prerequisite: 12 graduate credits in the program or permission of program director.Registration Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Graduate or Non-Degree level students.
Independent reading and research at master's or doctoral level on specific topic related to policy or government as agreed to by student and faculty member.Offered by Schar Public Policy/Admin. May be repeated within the term for a maximum 12 credits. Equivalent to BIOD 996, ITRN 790, PUAD 796, PUBP 796.Specialized Designation: Topic VariesRegistration Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Graduate or Non-Degree level students.
Subject
POGO
Credits (min)
1
Credits (max)
3
Credit unit
credits
Type
course
Repeatable
May be repeated within the term for a maximum 12 credits.
POGO 801Research Design for the Social Sciences and Public Policy3
Grounds students in the principles of the scientific method as the framework for investigating questions in the social sciences and public policy. Provides broad overviews of quantitative or/and qualitative methodologies, with a major emphasis on research design, including conceptualization, the role of theory, hypothesis generation, inference and bias.Offered by Schar Public Policy/Admin. May not be repeated for credit. Equivalent to PUBP 801.Registration Restrictions: Enrollment limited to students in a Doctor of Philosophy degree.
POGO 840Policy, Politics, and American Government Institutions3
This course examines major institutions that create and implement policy in the United States of America. The course explores executive, legislative, and judicial institutions at the federal, state, and local levels. In addition, the course considers agenda-building institutions such as media, interest groups, political parties, and elections.Offered by Schar Public Policy/Admin. May not be repeated for credit. Equivalent to PUAD 840, PUBP 840.Registration Restrictions: Enrollment limited to students in a Doctor of Philosophy degree.
POGO 841U.S. Political Behavior and the Process of Policymaking3
This course examines the interaction of mass political behavior and the policymaking process in the American political system. Topics include the antecedents to political behavior, including political attitudes and opinions, and the policy consequences of political behavior. Emphasizes how opinions and behaviors aggregate through the interest group system and the policy process. Content is meant to complement that from POGO 840.Offered by Schar Public Policy/Admin. May not be repeated for credit. Equivalent to PUBP 841.Registration Restrictions: Enrollment limited to students in a Doctor of Philosophy degree.
Weekly colloquium series for Schar school doctoral students. Features a cross-section of speakers from academia, government, industry and non-profit sectors. Topics include all areas of current Schar faculty research and practice.Offered by Schar Public Policy/Admin. May be repeated within the term for a maximum 4 credits.Specialized Designation: Topic VariesRegistration Restrictions: Enrollment limited to students with a class of Advanced to Candidacy or Graduate.
Subject
POGO
Credits (min)
1
Credits (max)
1
Credit unit
credit
Type
course
Repeatable
May be repeated within the term for a maximum 4 credits.
