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2022-2023 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
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2022-2023 Undergraduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

POL 1400 - Politics of Public Policy

Credits: 4
The course provides students with analytical tools, historical contexts and vocabulary to understand current public policy contests. The course examines health care, social welfare, energy, immigration, guns, civil rights, fiscal and environmental policy areas and many more contentious issues. The course facilitates a basic working knowledge of these public policy issues in order to motivate and prepare students to engage in ethical reasoning, policy discussions and deliberations, and political action.

 
Fulfills: SOSC in LS Core.