POL 330 - Political and Social Risk

Organizations of all sizes and types have been asking political and social scientists how best to understand, assess, analyze, measure, prepare for, and mitigate against risks of this - and many other kinds - for decades. With that as a backdrop, this course focuses on providing students with an introduction to the study of political risk, both historically and currently: what is it, how is it best understood, analyzed, assessed, and mitigated. To this end we use real-world crisis scenarios to examine risk as it impacts organizations of various sizes across diverse regions, markets, and time frames. It is designed to give students the skills they need if they are interested in working in risk analysis and consulting - an area that is only growing as organizations continue to see firsthand the danger of not investing in this type of analysis.
Lecture
Credits: 3
Offered in Spring.