1. Ability to demonstrate in-depth knowledge of the nature and features of the political process and political activity.
2. Ability to demonstrate a thorough knowledge of the particularities of political technology use and political decision-making.
3. Capacity to demonstrate in-depth knowledge of the democratic elections institute.
4. Ability to demonstrate thorough knowledge of election campaign strategy, tactics and resources.
5. To integrate and apply the knowledge gained for political consulting.
6. To choose and apply the methodology and tools of scientific research in carrying out theoretical and empirical research in the field of applied political science.
7. To conduct scientific research and carry out scientific projects on the basis of relevance of scientific problems, scientific reliability and objectivity, interdisciplinarity and analyticity, formulation of the author’s conclusions and suggestions.
8. To carry out image-making and PR-activities in the field of applied policy.

• Prerequisites: Relevant problems of humanities and social sciences
• Corequisites: Political analytics

Applied Political Science and its features Modeling and forecasting of political practices Political process and political activity Political and election technologies The process of political decision making The electoral process and its stages Resource support for the election campaign Election campaign strategy and tactics Political participation and its variants Absenteeism and its mechanisms of overcoming Political manipulation and its features Political image and features of its formation PR and its impact on political life Political conflicts and mechanisms for their settlement Features of political parties functioning

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• Current control: (40%): recitation, speeches during practical classes.
• Final control: (60%): exam (tests and theoretical questions).