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2019-2020 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
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2019-2020 Undergraduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

POL 1000 - Public Policy: Power and Social Change

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This course will review a broad range of policy topics with the aim of highlighting public interventions, framing problems, thinking through alternatives, and identifying changes that can make society better. An essential ingredient in understanding social institutions and behavior in any country is knowledge of political, economic, and institutional power in the creation of public policy. To this degree, students will study public policy through the lens of contemporary policy issues. With a focus on research approaches in the field, we will examine how policy emerges and how the values of public, nonprofit, and private sector actors and institutions affect decisions and implementation.

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