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NEW WINTER SEMESTER POLI SCI COURSES
The following new winter semester courses may count towards upper-division major requirements. If these courses don’t appear in your MAP, you can contact the Liberal Arts Advisement Center to make a substitution.
POLI 319R: Democracy and Decision Making in Small Groups
POLI 359R section 001: Democracy and Autocracy
POLI 359R section 002: Politics of Care
POLI 359R section 003: Protests and Revolution
POLI 368R section 001: Public Ethics
POLI 379R section 001: Introduction to Open-Source Intelligence
POLI 379R section 002: International Relations in Europe
POLI 379R section 003: US-Taiwan and Cross-Strait Relations
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Interested in a Career in Intelligence?
See yourself at CIA, DIA, NSA, DHS or FBI?
Opportunity knocks!
Prof. Brad Bruton, with over 40 years in the US Intelligence Community, now an active professional intel trainer, is returning to BYU in Winter 2024 to present “Introduction to Open Source Intelligence” for the eighth running!
Political Science 379R section 001 is a one-credit hour Seminar that meets only four times, on Tues 16 Jan, Thurs 18 Jan, Tues 23 Jan and Thurs 25 Jan from 5:00 to 8:30pm in MARB 130. Prof. Bruton will also be available for over 40 hours outside of class to meet with students and offer career advice.
Previous students have said:
“This is one of the most useful classes I've taken at BYU.
“I learned some super valuable skills,.”
“… provides great resources and makes the material very accessible. He is also very kind and definitely cares ….”
“... anyone interested in working in intelligence of any kind should take the class. He goes out of his way to meet one-on-one with students outside of class, and he gives great career advice. “
The syllabus is here: tiny.cc/BrutonOSInt [B,O,S,I upper case]
Bio here
Ratemyprofessor comments here
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Winter 2024 Research Assistant Positions Available
Dr. Busby is looking for 2 new undergraduate research assistants as part of a research team studying perceptions of extremism in the United States. The positions are for 8-12 hour-a-week paid at $15-an-hour and would begin at the start of the Winter 2024 semester. The work involves a variety of tasks including data cleaning, data analysis, and creating visualizations using a set of existing surveys, experiments, and interviews. There are many possibilities for research assistants to pursue their own related ideas and projects based on these data. Applicants should have already completed POLI 200 and 300 prior to Winter 2024.
Those interested should send a resume and a brief paragraph describing their interest in the project to Dr. Busby – ethan.busby@byu.edu. Applications will be considered on a rolling basis until the positions are filled.
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Winter 2024 Teaching Assistant Positions Available
Professor Driscoll will be hiring a number of teaching assistants for POLI 201: Western Political Heritage, Winter semester 2024. The class will be MWF 10:00-10:50 in 2111 JKB. Main responsibilities will include grading written work and being available for student consultation, but the position may include other duties consistent with the applicant’s strengths. If you are interested, please send a letter of interest to sean.driscoll@byu.edu. Please include information about any previous work as a TA, any political theory or philosophy classes taken (including 201), the number of hours you would like to work per week, and whether or not you would be able to attend the class. Review of applications will begin immediately and continue until candidates are hired. Starting wage is $14.00 or higher depending on previous TA experience in the department.
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Research Assistant for BYU's Wheatley Institute
BYU’s Wheatley Institute is seeking exceptional students for an in-depth experiential learning opportunity as a Research Assistant for its Constitutional Government initiative. The anticipated start is January 8, 2024 and the research projects will likely take at least 4 to 6 months to complete. More projects are expected to follow.
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Research Assistant Conducting Data Search and Entry about Municipal Officials
Openings: 24
Start Date: ASAP
Shift: Flexible
Hourly Wage: $13.00
Description: This job offers flexible work hours that you can do from anywhere with an internet connection. You will be looking up information online about municipal officials in the US, either searching to see if former municipal officials have run for another office or creating a list of elected officials from municipalities in several states. In some cases, you may need to call or email a municipality to figure out the names of their mayor and city councilors. As part of the job, you will need to check in weekly via email or Zoom with a student manager.
Primary Objectives: Help gather data for several academic research projects. One involves helping create the only nationwide, comprehensive database of elected municipal officials in the US. The other is a study that will examine whether male or female municipal officials are more likely to run for higher office at different rates.
Preferred Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities: Ability to use the internet to search for information. Familiarity with using a spreadsheet (either Excel or Google Sheets). Responsiveness to emails from managers. Ability to make phone calls to city staff to ask for information about their city.
Pay, Duration, and Hours: Employees need to work a minimum of 5 hours a week and can work up to 20. RAs who put in more hours doing quality work will receive pay raises ($.50 to $1) after the first several weeks and again several weeks after that. Position will start as soon as new employee is available to start working, and should take at least 6 months to complete all of the tasks involved (depending on number of RAs hired and how many hours they collectively work each week). If you have any questions, email Ely Gutierrez at eliquetz@byu.edu.
Application Instructions: To apply, email resume to Ely Gutierrez at eliquetz@byu.edu.
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Research Coordinator Position at the Polarization and Social Chang Lab
Research Coordinators in the Polarization and Social Change Lab (PASCL) support the lab’s leadership (Faculty Director, Research Director, and Director of Research Partnerships) and act as liaisons among faculty, post-doctoral researchers, PhD students, and research assistants in the lab. Key responsibilities include leading research teams, managing and analyzing data, designing and programming studies, drafting and submitting IRB proposals, and recruiting and supervising undergraduate research assistants. The position offers opportunities to develop personal research projects and publications, and serves as an excellent training ground for PhD programs as well as professional research positions in politics and government.
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Applications Open for the Herbert Scoville Jr.
Peace Fellowship
Applications are open for the Herbert Scoville Jr. Peace Fellowship, a highly competitive national fellowship program that provides recent college and graduate school alumni with the funding and opportunity to work with one of more than two dozen participating institutions in Washington, DC, including leading think tanks and advocacy groups that focus on international security and diplomacy issues.
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Learning & Development Intern
Cox Enterprises is seeking a motivated and enthusiastic Learning and Development Intern to join their team. This internship offers a unique opportunity for hands-on experience while working side-by-side with our experienced L&D professionals, gaining insights into the latest industry trends and best practices.
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Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy communications internship opening Winter (Spring) 2024 in DC!
The Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, the country’s premier progressive tax policy research organization, seeks a three-day-per-week paid Communications Intern for the Spring 2024 semester. This internship is open to undergraduates, recent graduates, and graduate students.
ITEP believes in moving America towards worker justice, economic justice, and racial justice by promoting progressive tax policy at a federal, state, and local levels. Our influential staff works with policymakers, reporters, and partners to research, support and develop tax policies that address inequity. Our unique ability to break down tax distribution by income, race, and geography and our tracking of corporate tax avoidance steers the debate about tax justice. Join us to make a difference.
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Full-Time Research Project Manager at Washington University in St. Louis
Washington University in St. Louis is seeking a research project manager for a Carnegie Corporation funded project supervised by Drs. Jacob Montgomery, Christopher Lucas, Jacob
Montgomery, and Margit Tavits, the Transdisciplinary Institute in Applied
Data Sciences (TRIADS), and the Department of Political Science at
Washington University in St. Louis.
The project examines politicians’ use of populist rhetoric across the
world’s democracies in order to understand its origins, mode of spread, and
consequences to the democratic process and stability. The project draws on
a massive new dataset of social media posts by politicians and political
parties around the world and will also include original surveys in four
democracies.
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Remote Part-time Data/Quantitative
Research Position
Cornell is looking to hire someone to work on their 2024 US Presidential Electoral College forecast. Their 2020 forecast, conducted more than 100 days prior to the election, correctly predicted the 2020 vote outcome in every state but one. The person hired will be invited to co-author on published work from the project. The position can be remote.
Key responsibilities include downloading and cleaning relevant public opinion and economic data, merging data, estimating Multilevel Regression with Poststratification (MRP) models, generating tables and figures, and (if desired), helping write up results.
The position will begin in January or early February and extend through August. We expect it will require approximately 10 to 20 hours/week, though there can be some flexibility from week-to-week if desired.
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Policy Research Intern Needed
- Starts January 2024
- Applications will be considered through 12/31/23
- Remote/In-office opportunities
- Opportunity for fulltime employment post-internship
- Center-right organization
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