Public Policy 301 - Communicating Public Policy

Fall
2026
01
3.00
Brittany Houston

TU TH 1:00PM 2:15PM

UMass Amherst
17405
Dickinson Hall room 209
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.

Open to School of Public Policy majors and minors.SPP majors and minors ENGLWRIT 112, SPP/POLISCI 280 All seats reserved for public policy primary majors until the initial registration period concludes.

Permission is required for interchange registration during the add/drop period only.