POL 294 - Spring-Term Topics in Public Policy

FDR: SS2
Credits: 4

This course is designed to give students additional expertise and awareness of discrete policy challenges in the United States. Students learn to explain current policy systems, including political institutions and political behavior by political actors. Students also formulate policy evaluations acknowledging the strengths and the weaknesses in the policy system.

Spring 2016, POL 294-01: Spring-Term Topics in Public Policy: Food Policy (4). Prerequisite: POL 100 or instructor consent. Majors in politics, economics, business, environmental studies, public health, or poverty are encouraged to take the course. This course introduces students to the institutions and politics of U.S. food-and-farm policy. Major considerations include farm-and-food policy history, tools of governance, and political issues. Specific topics include the farm bill (economics and conservation), poverty & nutrition programs, food industry regulation, and food safety. Spring term engagement includes investigative projects and policy analysis (SS2) Harris.

Planned Offering: Spring 2015