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POLITICAL SCIENCE (U25)  (Dept. Info)Continuing & Professional Studies  (Policies)SP2018

U25 PolSci 3191Topics: Public Policy Making3.0 Units
Description:The critical issues addressed in public policymaking involve political and moral choices, along with analytic and administrative aspects. This course aims to get students thinking about politics and policy as a part of their everyday life. We treat politics as a struggle among competing advocates trying to persuade others to see the world as they do, working within a context that is structured primarily by institutions and cultural ideas. Over the course of the semester, we raise the following questions: How do conditions become problems for government to solve, while other problems fail to attract government's attention? What sorts of political arguments are persuasive, and why? Why do we choose the policies we do? Do policies ever "work," and how would we know? The initial weeks comprise an overview of public policy in a constitutional democratic capitalist system-primarily as practiced in the contemporary U.S., but with reference to other places and times. The second segment takes up the making of public policy, addressing how complex systems of governance actually function.-along with explicit detail to the practice of policy analysis and evaluation. Third, we will address these themes and processes in broader contexts, including ethical and behavioral; along the way we'll trace some of the principal tensions in democratic public policymaking.
Attributes:UCollOLI, PSA, PST
Instruction Type:Classroom instruction Grade Options:CPA Tuition:$1,950.00 Fees:
Course Type:HomeSame As:N/AFrequency:Unpredictable / History
SecDays       TimeBuilding / RoomInstructorFinal ExamSeatsEnrollWaits
01M------5:30P-8:00PSeigle / L003 Kennedy MarangaSee Instructor1550
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