Course Syllabus

Each week (roughly) of your internship, beginning Tuesday 28 May (adjusted to take account of the holiday) and regularly thereafter until the end of July you are expected to post a log (see details below) summarizing the work you completed the previous work as part of your internship. Note that the dates the log is due in July are adjusted to account for a period when I am out of town and likely away from internet access. Additionally, the log should reflect on how that week's work has aided you in developing content due in your final project (see details below), due no later than 5 p.m Monday 26 August 2013.

The Log:

Each week you should summarize in a page work you did during the preceding that helped develop your understanding of:

• how public policy is created
• how various interested parties are identified (or self identify)
• how those interested parties participate in the policy making and implementation process
• the relationship between politics and policy
• how policy outcomes are implemented
• how policy outcomes are disseminated to the public and to agencies responsible for their implementation.

Note that not all of these items need be discussed each log entry.

For each entry, once the summary of the week has been completed select one item from the list above and explain how that item in particular was  a topic of interest / concern for the preceding week and explain how the manner it was addressed / resolved helps illuminate a particular idea or case study from your course of study at SSU up to now.

The Final Project:

For your final project you are asked to create a presentation (use PowerPoint or, ideally, Prezi) designed for first-year students considering majoring in public policy, The project should address one of two questions (NOT BOTH): either, a./ Why study Public Policy? or b./ Why Public Policy matters.

In either case, seek to make your case by using what you have learned from your internship to address the question. Assume a presentation of 12 - 15 minutes. You will need to provide the sound track and commentary and are responsible for ensuring that all links in the presentation are working. You may wish to interview people and include edits of those interviews in the final product, in which case please ensure you have their permission to do so.

The presentation will be linked to on the university's IDS department page.

The presentation is due no later than 5 p.m Monday 19 August 2013.

Grades:

The logs themselves will not be scored as they are designed to support your development of a professional understanding of your field of study and to help you prepare your final presentation.

Your final presentation will be 50 percent of your final grade. We will discuss the criteria on which the presentation will be judged individually prior to the penultimate draft being submitted.

The other 50 percent of your final grade will be determined by your supervisor's response to a SurveyMonkey questionnaire distributed toward the end of the semester, We will review the questions to be asked prior to their submission.