POSC 363. Hacking for Diplomacy

Credits 3.00 PeopleSoft Course ID 013938 Grading Basis GRD

Hacking for Diplomacy is a project-orientated course that takes real problems from the Department of State, the intelligence community and other federal departments and agencies and has students use the Lean Launch Pad Methodology to test problem understanding and potential solutions. The course provides students the opportunity to serve as resource to help address critical problems facing the U.S. government today. Participation in this course promotes engagement between students and stakeholders from a range of government agencies and provides hands-on opportunity to solve real national security and foreign policy problems. A network of such courses across the U.S. is providing a system that can develop solutions that match government end users’ in weeks. Prerequisite(s): POSC 230 and POSC 240 .