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department Public Policy Studies (X) |
What are genes? How do they work? Why are some people resistant to HIV-infection while others are not? What does it mean to inherit a susceptibility gene for breast cancer? What is DNA Âfingerprinting and should there be a mandatory DNA database collected from the population at large? Genomics is a rapidly developing science that has far-reaching implications for health and disease and contemporary social issues. This course will introduce the basic principles of genomics while emphasizing advances and their social and ethical implications.
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An exploration of how children cope with illness, incorporating the tools of documentary photography and writing. Students will work outside class with a child who is ill and teach them how to use a Polaroid camera, working towards an exhibit of photographs at the end of the semester. Permission required. No Instructor: Moses
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The Public Policy Studies internship program provides students with an opportunity to develop a basic understanding of one or more policy areas, to apply that understanding in an internship, and to return to the classroom to build on that knowledge and experience. A
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A documentary approach to the study of local communities through video production projects assigned by the course instructor. Working closely with these groups, students explore issues or topics of concern to the community.
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The goal of this class is to survey different approaches to ethical thinking in relation to non-human animals. In the world named but not captured by the term Âanimal rights, philosophical, ethical, and legal theories once sanctioned for use only in relation to humans are now being applied to animals with a varying array of outcomes and conclusions. This course will examine different strategies of animal advocacy as they are manifested in Kantianism, contract based theories, utilitarianism, welfarism. We will also read works that critique all Western philosophies as inadequate for dealing with non-human animals. The animal advocacy movement is filled with activists, philosophers, political theorists, feminists, lawyers, and representatives of many different intellectual traditions who disagree about the status of animals, about whether or not we should eat them or wear them or hunt them or train them for entertainment or keep them in our homes. WeÂll investigate these conflicts throughout this class by looking at the needs of particular animals. While certain forms of public rhetoric may promote an idea that animal advocacy is a seamless, all-or-nothing, rights-based, vegan agenda, this class presumes there are many acceptable positions in relation to non-human animals. While what happens to animals beyond the scope of our vision?at the factory farm, the slaughterhouse, the dog pound, the circus, or the research lab?may indeed be unethical, this class presumes that there are many different ways to formulate moral solutions. Each student will crystallize his or her own moral orientation towards animals through courteous and sustained debate on these subjects.
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Course focuses on the political processes, institutions and key actors involved in the making of public policy. Our principal focus is on American public policy, both domestic and foreign. We will examine major theories, models and concepts about politics and public policy as well as instructive cases. Emphasis will be on developing the conceptual understanding, analytic frameworks, substantive knowledge, and research and writing skills necessary to perform political analysis.
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Course focuses on the political processes, institutions and key actors involved in the making of public policy. Our principal focus is on American public policy, both domestic and foreign. We will examine major theories, models and concepts about politics and public policy as well as instructive cases. Emphasis will be on developing the conceptual understanding, analytic frameworks, substantive knowledge, and research and writing skills necessary to perform political analysis.
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Course focuses on the political processes, institutions and key actors involved in the making of public policy. Our principal focus is on American public policy, both domestic and foreign. We will examine major theories, models and concepts about politics and public policy as well as instructive cases. Emphasis will be on developing the conceptual understanding, analytic frameworks, substantive knowledge, and research and writing skills necessary to perform political analysis.
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Course focuses on the political processes, institutions and key actors involved in the making of public policy. Our principal focus is on American public policy, both domestic and foreign. We will examine major theories, models and concepts about politics and public policy as well as instructive cases. Emphasis will be on developing the conceptual understanding, analytic frameworks, substantive knowledge, and research and writing skills necessary to perform political analysis.
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Course focuses on the political processes, institutions and key actors involved in the making of public policy. Our principal focus is on American public policy, both domestic and foreign. We will examine major theories, models and concepts about politics and public policy as well as instructive cases. Emphasis will be on developing the conceptual understanding, analytic frameworks, substantive knowledge, and research and writing skills necessary to perform political analysis.
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Course focuses on the political processes, institutions and key actors involved in the making of public policy. Our principal focus is on American public policy, both domestic and foreign. We will examine major theories, models and concepts about politics and public policy as well as instructive cases. Emphasis will be on developing the conceptual understanding, analytic frameworks, substantive knowledge, and research and writing skills necessary to perform political analysis.
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This is a basic course in television news, taught by Clay Johnson, a veteran television news reporter and DuPont Award winning documentary producer. The course is designed for students who plan a career in television news or for students in other fields who simply want to learn how television news works for greater understanding of its impact on public policy and society in general. Students will learn how to cover, research, write, shoot and edit television news stories. Students will also learn how editorial decisions are made in television news rooms as to what stories reporters will cover and how they will cover them. Some attention will also be paid to longer format television journalism such as news magazine segments and documentaries. Students will also learn how broadcasters are using the Internet to complement television news coverage. This course is being offered on a first-come, first-served basis and is limited to 16 students.
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Students will learn about reporting, writing and editing stories for print and online media primarily by doing actual news assignments each week and discussing them in class. Students will learn how to gather information, analyze it, and present it fairly and accurately in clear and compelling new stories. Focus on interviewing techniques, use of public records, hard news and feature writing styles, journalism ethics and the role of text-based media in public policy.
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Public policy and journalism are deeply entwined. Because any well-informed citizen needs to know how the nation's media affect public policy, students will analyze news coverage of current policy issues--ranging from the death penalty to stem cell research to global warming and national security. In the process, students will evaluate the media's strengths and shortcomings and their successes and failures as actors in the policy process. The forces that shape media coverage (including law and regulation, economic forces, public relations firms, lobbyists, and spin-doctors) will also be examined, using readings both historical and current.
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Almost every news controversy is at its base an ethical dilemma. Journalists are unlike other Americans in that they must juggle sometimes conflicting ethical standards, depending on whether they approach an issue as a journalist, as a citizen, or simply as a human being. Given the critical role of the media in our culture, and in matters of public policy, the moral dimension of how the media do their job is of vital importance.
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Journalism ethics is about making choices. The course examines the decision-making process in areas such as conflict of interest, privacy, confidentiality and leaks, trust and credibility, media ownership, objectivity and bias, fair trial v. free speech, national security v. public right to know. Reliance on case studies of recent controversies in the media.
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PPS 135 Â Border Crossing: Leadership, Value Conflicts & Public Life
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Survey and analysis of American intellectual property law and policy, with emphasis on media-oriented issues including film, television, music and digital content; special focus on the tensions between private property and the public domain. Extensive readings in both case law and policy commentary.
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This course focuses on environmental policy issues in the United States. We will consider the full range of the social sciences in our analysis,including the political, economic, ethical, legal, and institutional issues involved in environmental decision-making. The course will cover: the
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Ethical issues of conducting research on or working with marginalized/stigmatized populations, using theoretical frameworks and case studies. Investigations of ethical choices made by multinational, national and local policymakers, clinicians, and researchers and their impact on individuals, families and communities. Emphasis on working with community partners in developing needs assessment programs. Topics include: differential standards of care; protection of human subjects; access to essential medicines; genetic information and confidentiality; pharmaceutical development; health information technology; placebo controlled trials; best outcomes vs. distributive justice.
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