School of Public Policy 301 - Communicating Public Policy
Fall
2025
01
3.00
Brittany Houston
TU TH 1:00PM 2:15PM
UMass Amherst
66770
Dickinson Hall room 114
bdhouston@umass.edu
This course is designed to help students become better communicators by strengthening their skill as writers since writing is integral to all phases of the policy process. Public policy is concerned with identifying problems, coming up with solutions to those problems, and getting those solutions adopted and implemented. For that to happen, students must be experts in communicating with a variety of audiences. There are three basic ways to do so: speaking, writing, and showing. This course is designed to enable students to do all three, although the focus is on writing.
ENGLWRIT 112, SPP/POLISCI 280 This course fulfills Junior Year Writing requirement for SPP students.
14 seats reserved for primary majors