The Final Exam

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The Final Exam
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Time, Place

• Wednesday, December 14, 1010 - 1200
• This classroom
• You bring
• Something to write with
• Answers
• I provide
• Something to write on
• Questions

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Format

• Two essay questions, 25 points each, pick from
  four or more
• Twenty-five objective questions, 2 points each
  (same format as used in quizzes)

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Subject Matter

• Videos, readings, projects, links between them
• Policy topics
• Climate change
• Air water quality
• Wastes of all sorts
• Energy
• And the various topics covered in the team
  presentations

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Subject Matter, cont.

• Videos are
• The Search for Clean Air
• The Great Experiment
• Mastering the Marketplace
• Readings
• Rosenbaum, chs. 6, 7, 8
• Chasek, Downie, Brown ch. 3 (pgs. 121-160), ch.
  4 (pgs. 179-202)
• Projects (at least the presentations) are
  available on the course web site

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A Few Points To Ponder

• Cross-boundary environmental issues
• Are common, and difficult to deal with
• Can you identify some of them
• Are you aware of some of the mechanisms which
  have been crested to deal with them? Are those
  mechanisms effective?

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A Few Points To Ponder, cont.

• Are major changes (social, political, cultural,
  individual) needed to deal effectively with
  environmental problems? Or, would smaller, more
  incremental changes be better? Why do you think
  so?

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A Few Points To Ponder, cont.

• We have discussed a number of interesting and
  important environmental policy topics (during
  regular class discussion, in the videos, and in
  team presentations). Can you provide an in-depth
  discussion (e.g. identifying the problem,
  discussing specific policy responses to the
  problem and the effectiveness of those responses)
  of one of them?

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And Even More Points To Ponder

• Each of the videos addressed some specific
  environmental problems. Can you
• Identify two of the problems identified in one of
  the videos
• Identify some existing and/or potential policy
  responses to those problems, and
• Assess the (likely) effectiveness of those policy
  responses

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Retrieving Graded Materials

• I will place the graded final exams (and all
  other graded materials) in the Political Science
  Departments office (located in the corner of the
  second floor hallway of St. Josephs Hall) when I
  have finished grading them
• I will notify you by e-mail when your materials
  are ready
• I will keep any materials which are not claimed
  by the end of the first week of the next semester
  in my office through the end of the next semester

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A Word To The Wise

• As a general rule, I do not bite
• BUT
• I have been known to make an exception for
  persons who bug me for their grades!!!

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