Overview
Description
This course takes policy writing as an object of study. Students will analyze the conventions of specific policy forms and learn to write in those genres. Students will learn how to research issues and write documents, but also how to construct an issue as a problem that needs public intervention. With attention to how problems are represented, students will produce documents including white paper, policy memo, data visualizations, and texts appropriate for public education campaigns.
Requirements
Prerequisites
- at least Junior standing
ENG 102
Original catalog text
Prerequisites
ENG 102; at least Junior standing.
Units
Lecture3
Catalog Details
Offering
Offered: Other
Restrictions
at least Junior standing
Attributes
Standard
Learning Outcomes
- perform historical, textual, and field-based research to determine problems of public concern.
- analyze how authors engage the public to construct recognizable problems and viable solutions.
- produce a white paper, aimed at a particular audience, on an issue of local concern.
- identify and produce common public policy texts with attention to textual, visual, and sound strategies.