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Fall Class on Educational Policy and the State Legislature |
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Fall Class on Educational Policy and the State Legislature:
Want to learn how you can influence Minnesota's legislature, and help
improve the world? Want to understand how the legislature makes
decisions about education issues, elementary, secondary and higher ed?
Want to meet with legislators, reporters, lobbyists? Want to discuss how
the Internet can be used to help influence legislators? If so, this is a
good class for you.
Classroom debates, discussions and simulations play a key part. There
also is a field trip to state legislature. Students will help write a
guide for others on what people do to get things done at the
legislature. Target audience: mature undergraduates, community members,
graduate students
Class meets Monday nights, from 6 - 8:30 PM, Starting Monday, September
8 - December 10, 2008
Class Time: 20% Lecture, 45% Discussion. 20% conversations; 10% role
plays, 5% field trip
Work Load: 70 pages reading per week, 25 pages writing per term, 1 exam,
2 papers. Three minute speech
Grade: 30% final exam, 50% reports/papers, 15% in-class presentation, 5%
class participation.
Exam Format: Take-home final exam
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