Law, Pub Service & Exec Branch

Catalog description

Elective Course Course Requirement: writing assignments Satisfies Upper Level Writing requirement A Common standard for public policy debate often falls short of understanding the complexity of government. Political idealogy, excessive or inadequate government control, and market and social fundamentalism only begin to address how government responds to continuing and contemporary political, social, and economic conditions that impact our daily lives. Law, Public Service, and the Executive Branch is designed to look behind the common standard for assessing policy making. The course is uniquely poised to examine the art of government through the lens of the Chief Executive. Through the Chief Executive?s vantage point, this course will examine the management of the many interrelated complexities of government that intimately involve our legislature, the Courts, and the citizenry at large, amoung other outside sources and influences. The course will provide a rich menu of issues and ideas supported by a blend of common sense, historical knowledge, first-person gubernatorial experience, and how these complexities continue to interact (or not) to shape the latest developments in government generally, and in our daily lives, in particular. The course form will be lecture driven, although we anticipate a great deal of interaction with our students ? perhaps more so than that of a typical law school class given the nature of the course.