Courses focus on campaign advertising and promotion, communications and strategy, campaign organization, and polling. View courses in Campaign Management Back to the top Issues Management Students learn the skills to manage ideas and issues in politics. Courses are taught on referendum politics, public opinion, crisis management, polling, grassroots, and the strategic management of political issues. Fundraising Fundraising is an essential part of the political process and students who can offer those skills find a wider array of career opportunities available to them. Students take courses that prepare them for careers as campaign finance directors, event planners, direct marketing specialists, and corporate and non-profit membership development officers.
Students frequently combine fundraising with a concentration in campaign management or lobbying.
View courses in Fundraising Back to the top Corporate Public Affairs Students learn the skills to develop strategic plans, organize constituent groups, and analyze associations. Courses concentrate on management of government relations, grassroots politics, crisis management, and lobbying. View courses in Corporate Public Affairs Back to the top Polling and Strategic Research Students learn survey research techniques, elementary and advanced quantitative methods, research and data collection , statistical analysis, and data resources. View courses in Polling Back to the top Politics and Public Policy Students who have an interest in a specific area of public policy may arrange, with the approval of the associate dean, an individually tailored course of study drawing upon courses offered by other units of the University or through the Consortium of Washington Universities. Generally, such programs would include three courses in a policy area, such as environmental policy, defense policy, or health policy.