The University of North Dakota's fully online Policy Analysis Graduate Certificate focuses on enhancing your analytic skills in political, non-profit, and public policy, including:

• research methods
• legislative and executive processes
• problems in state and local government

Through online courses, you will explore the:

• various approaches to analyzing political phenomena.
• techniques of empirical research including research design, measurement, data gathering, and data analysis.
• use of empirical theory and techniques to make policy choices.
• initiation, formulation, adoption, implementation, and evaluation of American public policy.
• contemporary structural and policy problems of state and local governments.
• structures, processes, procedures, and positions of the legislative and executive offices in government.

How Online Certificates Work

         As an online student in "live" Web class sessions, you will:

• participate in class sessions that are conducted "live" over the Internet. Typically, online classes are held 1 evening per week for 3 hours.
• interact with your instructors and other students using Web-conferencing technology.
• see your instructors' material as though you were sitting in a classroom on the UND campus.

         In this manner, the class lectures, discussion, and collaboration are conducted in a very similar fashion to traditional on-campus classes.

          Tuition

         Regardless of where you live, you will pay in-state resident tuition for all online courses.