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• SOC 320 Week 1 DQ 1 Public Policy (Ash)

• SOC 320 Week 1 DQ 2 Republic or Democracy? and
  to the republic for which we stand (Ash)

• Consider and explain the following statement,
  Public policy is both what government does and
  what it does not do (TheodoulouKofinis, 2012).
• What determines whether policy is enacted or not?
  
• Who holds the power and authority to make and
  change public policy?

• Review the Declaration of Independence and the
  Pledge of Allegiance. Then, discuss republicanism
  and democracy in U.S. government. Explain what
  this means in regards to public policy, social
  issues and its effectiveness and efficiency.

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• SOC 320 Week 1 Journal Reflections on Federal
  Environmental Policy (Ash)

• SOC 320 Week 2 Assignment Education in the United
  States (Ash)

• Read Chapter 9 of The Policy Game Understanding
  U.S. Policy Making, and watch Changing Education
  Paradigms (or read the transcript). Then, write a
  paper on the problem of education in the United
  States. Share your reactions to the concepts and
  perspective presented in the video. In your
  paper, address the following

• Reflections on Federal Environmental Policy
• For your journal entry, you will explore aspects
  of your personal experience and/or beliefs
  regarding significant public policies and what
  you have learned in your readings. As you
  reflect, please address the following questions
• What are the current major environmental issues?

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• SOC 320 Week 2 DQ 1 Policy Process Theories (Ash)

• SOC 320 Week 2 DQ 2 Problem Identification and
  Agenda Setting (Ash)

• Examine and evaluate the problem identification
  and agenda setting stages of the policy process
  in this weeks required reading assignment.
  Discuss the process whereby a problem ultimately
  ends up on an agenda to be discussed.

• Describe the Stages-Heuristic theory of the
  policy process. What are the stages of policy
  development it includes? Discuss this theory and
  compare it to the other dominant theoretical
  frameworks. Then, select one other theory and
  discuss its strengths and weaknesses as compared
  to the Stages-Heuristic framework.

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• SOC 320 Week 2 Journal Reflections on Education
  Policy (Ash)

• SOC 320 Week 3 DQ 1 MADD Grassroots Movement to
  Policy (Ash)

• Given that grassroots organizations often do not
  have the expertise, stature, or other resources
  of larger, more institutional stakeholders, what
  tools do grassroots organizations have that
  enable them to successfully influence policy?

• Reflections on Education Policy
• For your journal entry, you will explore aspects
  of your personal experience and/or beliefs
  regarding significant public policies and what
  you have learned in this course. As you reflect
  this week, please discuss the following questions

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• SOC 320 Week 3 DQ 2 Social Security (Ash)

• SOC 320 Week 3 Journal Reflections on Federal
  Welfare Policy (Ash)

• For your journal entry, you will explore aspects
  of your personal experience and/or beliefs
  regarding significant public policies and what
  you have learned in your readings. As you
  reflect, please address the following questions
• What are the major current federal welfare
  issues?
• How do you feel about related policies?

• Public surveys indicate that ¾ of younger
  Americans think that Social Security is a dead
  program. What would make them have such a dim
  view? Does the strength of the American
  Association of Retired persons (AARP) play into
  this perspective?

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• SOC 320 Week 4 DQ 1 Lobbying (Ash)

• SOC 320 Week 3 Journal Reflections on Federal
  Welfare Policy (Ash)

• Public surveys indicate that ¾ of younger
  Americans think that Social Security is a dead
  program. What would make them have such a dim
  view? Does the strength of the American
  Association of Retired persons (AARP) play into
  this perspective?

• It is often said that lobbying is both an art and
  science. Imagine that because of your knowledge
  of the legislative process, you have decided to
  become more active in attempting to influence the
  legislative process. First, identify a current
  legislative issue being considered for policy
  adoption.

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• SOC 320 Week 4 DQ 2 Health Care Reform Explained
  (Ash)

• SOC 320 Week 4 Journal Reflections on Health Care
  Policy (Ash)

• Watch Health Reform Hits Main Street The
  YouToons Explain the New Health Law. Then, review
  the information available at Illustrating Health
  Care Reform How Health Insurance Coverage Will
  Work.Identify and discuss three different groups
  of people and how they will be impacted by the
  Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.

• Watch Rebecca Onie What if our healthcare system
  kept us healthy? For your journal entry, you will
  explore aspects of your personal experience
  and/or beliefs regarding significant public
  policies and what you have learned in your
  readings. As you reflect, please address the
  following questions

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• SOC 320 Week 5 DQ 1 Obama and Romney on
  Immigration (Ash)

• SOC 320 Week 5 DQ 2 Policy Termination (Ash)

• Watch Obama and Romney Debate Each Others
  Immigration Policy (2012 Presidential Debate 2).
  As a supporter of one side of this issue,
  identify the points made by the presidential
  candidate that most closely represents your
  perspective.

• Dont Ask Dont Tell (DADT) was a compromise
  between the Clinton administration and its
  opponents in Congress and the military.
  Compromise sometimes yields good policy, but
  sometimes it produces internally inconsistent and
  counterproductive policy.

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• SOC 320 Week 5 Journal Reflections on Federal
  Immigration Policy (Ash)

• For your journal entry, you will explore aspects
  of your personal experience and/or beliefs
  regarding significant public policies and what
  you have learned in your readings. As you
  reflect, please address the following questions
• What are the major current federal welfare
  issues?
• How do you feel about related policies?

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