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A political science course at Arizona Christian University.
This course will use case studies and scholarship to analyze innovative public policy initiatives that seek to address social and political problems through policy entrepreneurship, economic development, and social innovation. Students will consider the effectiveness of private-sector or public-private partnerships, privatization, decentralization, community and local initiatives, and other means of implementing free-market and limited-government principles in innovative ways to solve pressing political and economic problems. Students will use the principles learned from the case studies to develop their own innovative public policy initiative to address an existing social or political problem.
Engage the Course Material
Build a working understanding of public policy and economic development as the course's central subject.
Apply Discipline Methods
Use the methods, vocabulary, and frameworks of the discipline to address course problems.
Connect Course Content
Connect this course's content to broader work in the discipline and related fields.
Demonstrate Course Competencies
Demonstrate the specific competencies the course is designed to develop.
A Biblical Worldview takes political and civic life seriously as the arena where convictions meet practice. This course engages its material with that seriousness in view.
POL410 is part of ACU's political science curriculum. Explore the programs that include it.
