Environmental Policy Processes II

Catalog description

This on-campus and off-campus course sequence focuses on how environmental policy issues move through the federal policy-making process. Students select an environmental policy topic during the fall semester session ( NTRES 4300 ) for analysis during the second part of the course ( NTRES 4301 ). The second session continues course focus on contemporary environmental problems, how they are defined, aggregating interests, agenda-setting, formulating alternative solutions, implementation and evaluation, and roles of lobbyists, advocates, the legislative, executive, judicial branches of government, and other actors. DC activities also include organized meetings with policy makers, advocates and experts as guest panelists. The spring semester session ( NTRES 4302 ) requires presenting an oral policy briefing and writing both short and long policy briefs based on the DC interviews and additional research.