Effective Policymaking will cover the essence of social science and how to analyze the effectiveness of government policies. How do we know if a policy is effective if we can’t run a controlled experiment? What are the various biases that can affect our analysis of data? 

How Government Works is a class on the basics of state and local government, which you will rarely learn about in school. What do counties and city governments do? How are they run? Who should we talk to when we have a complaint? What career opportunities are in government? 

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Effective Communication and Campaigning teaches the essential public speaking and writing skills to convince everyday voters to support their policy. How do we write opinion pieces in a way that are convincing and analytical, yet simple to understand? How do we learn to be more confident while public speaking? 

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The Role of Data In Policymaking allows students to understand economic analyses and studies to know what to advocate for. What are p-values? How can we know if a relationship is certain? This class is purely conceptual and will not require any background in math. 

Effective Messaging and Grassroots Organizing teaches the essentials in campaign messaging to resonate with your audience, how to gain more grassroots support and organize and motivate volunteers.

Group A will learn about the math needed to run their own studies in the Data Science course. Using simple tools like Desmos, we will learn about hypothesis testing, confidence intervals, and other statistical tools needed to critically analyze data to shape public policy.

Group B will focus more on effective messaging and campaign through presentation or infographics.