School of Public Policy 111 - Policy in an Age of Precarity

This course introduces you to several, critical ways public policy successes and failures can shape the life trajectories of young adults. The class helps you expand your critical understanding of important policy issues and debates (in education, housing, labor, etc.), to analyze a broad range of views, and to listen to the perspectives of others in a respectful, inclusive, open classroom. Does a state owe its people stability, social mobility, equal opportunity, freedom, or participation? If it does, how can public policy work to achieve these goals or at least not undermine them? This course will help you reflect on the ways in which public policy is alive in your life (often invisibly), and how the effects of policies on individuals and institutions may influence your views and those of others. What?s precarity? Glad you asked. It refers to insecurities and uncertainties in many social and economic spheres and their effects on individuals and society. The course gives you an opportunity to personalize your learning and to build your skills in ways that will be useful to your professional and personal development. All course materials are available at no charge and online. No prerequisites. (Gen. Ed. SB, DU)

All seats reserved for freshmen and sophomores.