Joint Orientation 2024

          Political Science                   Public Policy and Political Economy

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Curtis Bram

Welcome to the Joint Orientation 2024

Political Science

Thomas Gray

Public Policy and Political Economy

Program

Dr. Jennifer Holmes

Dean

School of Economic, Political and Policy Sciences

Inauguration

Dr. Thomas Brunell

Program Head

Political Science & Public Policy and Policy Economy

Welcome  

Thomas Gray

  • Teaching expectations
  • Professionalism

Karl Ho

  • Working Paper Series (WPS)
  • Journey of research
  • Our languages
    • R, Stata, Python
  • Labs
    • Arlington Lab
    • Tyler Lab
    • Dallas Lab

Conferences

  • American Political Science Association (~September)
  • International Studies Association
  • Midwest Political Science Association
  • Southern Political Science Association
  • Western Political Science Association

Robert
Lowry

Thomas
Brunell

Thomas
Gray

Political Institutions and American Politics

  • PSCI 7381 Energy Policy and Regulation
  • PSCI 6333 Political and Civic Organizations
  • PSCI 6324 Local and State Government and Politics
  • PSCI 6339 Election Law and Electoral Systems
  • PSCI 6347 Proseminar in Political Institutions and American Politics 
  • PSCI 6331 Executives Legislatures and Public Policy

Political Psychology

Lauren Ratliff Santoro

  • PSCI 7380 Political Psychology
  •   Social Network Analysis 

Survey Research

Curtis
Bram

  • EPPS 7386 Survey Research 

Law and Courts

Banks
Miller

Sivaram
Cheruvu

  • PSCI 6343 Law and the Policy Process
  • PSCI 6347 Proseminar in Political Institutions and American Politics 
  • PSCI 6321.001 Proseminar in Comparative Politics 
  • PSCI 6342.001 Comparative Courts and Law

International Relations

Clint
Peinhardt

  • PSCI 6309 International Political Economy
  • PSCI 6316 International Organizations 

Comparative Politics

Karl Ho

Jonathan Pinckney

Marianne
Stewart

  • PSCI 6335 Institutions and Development
  • PSCI 7350 Institutions and Citizen Behavior
  • PSCI 6374 U S Global Security and Public Opinion
  • PPPE 6V81 Political Economy of Technology
  • EPPS 6302 Methods of Data Collection and Production 
  • EPPS 6356 Data Visualization
  • EPPS 6323 Knowledge Mining
  • EPPS 6354 Information Management
  • PSCI 6355.501 Civil Resistance 

New faculty highlight

Marcelo Leal

Erin Litzow

  • PPPE/ECON 6352: World Political Economy

Erin Litzow

  • PPPE/PSCI 6315 Legal Aspects of Cyber Security and Cyber Security Ethics 

Marcelo Leal

Public Policy and
Political Economy

Simon
Fass

Denise
Boots

Euel
Elliott

  • EPPS 6352 Evaluation Research Methods in the Economic Political and Policy Sciences
  • PPPE 6310 Research Design I
  • PPPE 6370 Political Economy of Natural Resources
  • EPPS 7304 Cost-Benefit Analysis
  • PPPE 7v26 Policy Research Workshop in Institutions and Processes

Health Policy

Dohyeong
Kim

Richard
Scotch

Sarah Maxwell

  • PPPE 6340 Domestic Social Policy
  • PPPE 6341 Health Policy
  • PPPE 6329 Ethics Culture and Public Policy  
  • PPPE 6321 Economics for Public Policy
  • EPPS 7313 Descriptive and Inferential Statistics

Cybersecurity and Tech Policy

Pengfei
Zhang

Anton
Sobolev

Natalia
Lamberova

  • PPPE 6302 Political Violence and Conflict in Cyberspace
  • PPPE 6303 Cyber Security Policy
  • EPPS 6313 Introduction to Quantitative Methods
  • PPPE/PSCI 6303 Cyber Security Policy
  • PPPE 6305 - Digital Platform Strategy, Security, and Regulation
  • PPPE 6365 The Innovation Economy 
  • PPPE 6342 Research Design II 

Elías
Cisneros

Sustainability

Erin Litzow

  • PPPE 6301.501 Political-Economic Theories
  • PPPE 6367.501 Environmental Economics and Policy
  • PPPE 6352.501 World Political Economy

Erin Litzow

Research Methods

Patrick
Brandt

Timothy
Bray

  • PSCI 6350 Logic Methodology and Scope of Political Science
  • EPPS 7370 Time Series Analysis I
  • EPPS 7316 Regression and Multivariate Analysis
  • EPPS 7390 Bayesian Analysis for Social and Behavioral Sciences
  • EPPS 6313 Introduction to Quantitative Methods 

Graduate Program
Administrator

  • Facilities
  • Forms
    • Degree plan
    • Milestone
  • Travel
  • Graduation

Renee'
Green

Manager of Academic Computing

  • Labs
  • Software
  • Liaison with UTD Information Resources 

Russell Hoffman

Process

Core Courses:

Major/Minor Field Courses

1

Qualifying Exam
Field Paper Exam

2

Dissertation

Elective Courses

Dissertation Proposal

Oral Defense

3

1

Core courses

PSCI 6350

EPPS 6313/7313

EPPS 6316/7316

3

Field Courses

Comparative Politics

International Relations

Law and Courts

Political Institutions and American Politics

5

Field paper Examination

2

Proseminars

Comparative Politics

International Relations

Law and Courts

Political Institutions and American Politics

4

Qualifying Examination

Fall: CP, LC

Spring: IR, PIAP

Life in UTD and EPPS

Mamie Giuseppina Cincotta

Breakout sessions

Political Science Public Policy and Political Economy Joint Orientation 2024

By Karl Ho

Political Science Public Policy and Political Economy Joint Orientation 2024

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