Course Level: Undergraduate/Graduate

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Running for Office

This course examines the decision-making process to become a candidate, the rigors of a campaign, and the benefits and potential pitfalls that can befall those who choose public service. Through discussions and presentations with successful and unsuccessful candidates and the political professionals that guide them, students examine themselves to determine if they have what it takes to run, while exploring numerous real-life scenarios of happenings in a candidate's life.

Course Level: Undergraduate/Graduate

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Campaign Leadership

This course looks at the game changers, how good (and bad) decision making can change the course of an election. The class examines the key decision points in the 2008 and 2012 U.S. presidential elections how the decision-making structure within each campaign contributed to its success or failure, with an eye toward applying those lessons to campaign management at all levels of government.

Course Level: Undergraduate/Graduate

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Field Organization

This course focuses on a strategic element of a campaign: field organization and execution. The campaign techniques and strategies necessary to engage in field organizing for voter contact and get-out-the-vote for political campaigns are covered throughout the course. Students are equipped with the necessary tools and knowledge to develop a winning grassroots strategy at every level.