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This class serves as an introduction to Geographic Information Science (GIS). GIS is the science of spatial relationships, linking data to locations to explore relations between objects. Based in geographic thought and emerging from initial applications in natural resource management, GIS has evolved to be a universally applicable way of thinking and set of knowledge, skills, and practices. The goals of this course are to teach you basic GIS concepts through practice and theory, to enable you to make useful and meaningful contributions to various disciplines through spatial analysis.

This class serves as an introduction to Geographic Information Science (GIS). GIS is the science of spatial relationships, linking data to locations to explore relations between objects. Based in geographic thought and emerging from initial applications in natural resource management, GIS has evolved to be a universally applicable way of thinking and set of knowledge, skills, and practices. The goals of this course are to teach you basic GIS concepts through practice and theory, to enable you to make useful and meaningful contributions to various disciplines through spatial analysis.

This independent study serves as the first course in the two-course honors research thesis sequence offered within the School of Public Policy. Within this course, the student is asked to build upon their understanding of the policy process and toolbox of tools they've built in prior classes, such as an understanding of hypothesis testing and statistics. They will identify a research question and will explore different ways?qualitative and quantitative research designs?that they could use to answer the question.

This course asks students to execute their thesis where they have already identified a public policy, public administration, or public management problem facing a community today, which they then analyze some aspect of and which they laid the groundwork for in their previous Honors Research course.

This course asks students to execute their research project where they have already identified a public policy, public administration, or public management problem facing a community today, which they then analyze some aspect of and which they laid the groundwork for in their previous Honors Research course.

What are your community's most pressing problems? Policing? Housing? What are the world's? Ending global hunger? Climate? How might we address this problem today? This is the first course in the two course honors thesis capstone within the School of Public Policy, with the end product being a research proposal and design that will be carried out in the Spring semester. This course is an introduction to methodologies for analyzing, implementing, and evaluating public policy.

Students will enroll in this course when they have been matched through the Public Policy Undergraduate Research Engagement Program to assist faculty with their research. The course will allow students and faculty to establish common goals that are substantive and measurable, ensuring opportunities for meaningful learning. Completing research in the field of public policy is an opportunity for students to gain a deeper understanding of how the process of research occurs, develop knowledge within an area of interest, and expand skills in communication, critical thinking, analysis, and more.