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 course is the second in a two-course sequence and is an option for students in the Commonwealth Honors College. It continues their thesis research begun in the fall semester SPP 499C in which they chose a question, wrote a literature review, and learned about research designs best suited to answering their research questions. In this semester, students will execute their research plan.

This course fulfills the Public Policy Capstone requirement for majors. It is designed for students who are unable to enroll in the traditional spring Public Policy Capstone. The Public Policy Independent Capstone provides public policy majors with the opportunity to reflect on and synthesize their experiences, knowledge, and skills developed during SPP?s undergraduate program.

This course provides Public Policy students with the opportunity to reflect on and synthesize their experiences, knowledge, and skills developed during SPP?s undergraduate program. Students will tackle an actual policy or management problem facing a community or mission-driven enterprise (i.e., nonprofit, co-operative, social enterprise, etc.). Working in teams or individually they will research the problem to discover the policy or management issues facing the community or enterprise.

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.

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.

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.

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.