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2017-2018 Academic Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

POL 395-03 - Advanced Special Topic: Public Opinion and Political Behavior

4 credits (Spring)
This course examines public opinion and political behavior in American politics, and it facilitates your own semester-long research project. The course is divided into two parts. The first provides an overviews of the contours of public opinion-including attitude stability and change, ideology, approval toward national institutions, and vote choice-as well as trends in political participation. The second focuses on the elements of good research design as you develop your own project.

Prerequisite: POL 216 POL 237 POL 239 , or POL-295 Political Psychology (offered Fall 2017) and MAT 115 SST 115 , or MAT 209 .
Instructor: Dawkins