Public Policy

Summer Term 2008

• PLCY 205: Public Policy Communication

PLCY 205: Public Policy Communication

Note: This course will conclude by July 10, including the final exam. Grades will be available by July 28.

Public Policy 205 provides practical experience in communicating to make or to analyze public policy.

Course assignments are designed to develop the competence, confidence, and rhetorical understanding needed by communicators in public life and governmental processes. Students play various roles in the policy-making process by defining policy problems, observing problematic conditions, conducting public records research, and writing functional documents. Students are introduced to public communication standards and techniques through exercises in writing, revising, and analyzing public policy texts.

Required Texts

• Catherine F. Smith, Writing Public Policy: A Practical Guide to Communicating in the Policy-Making Process (2005).
  ISBN 0-19-514-507-0
• Joseph M. Williams, Style: The Basics of Clarity and Grace, 2nd edition (2005). ISBN 0-321-33085-4

You may purchase the textbook at Friday Center Books & Gifts in person, online, or by mailing or faxing in the book order form. Refer to the online ordering site for current book prices. Please see Textbooks for textbook purchase dates.

Course Details

• Instructor: Catherine Smith, PhD
• Department: Public Policy
• Credit hours: 3
• UNC-Chapel Hill perspectives/requirements fulfilled: The Office of Undergraduate Curricula has links to information about which perspectives this course fulfills under the “Pre-2006 Curriculum” and which requirements it fulfills under the new curriculum (see “2006 Curriculum”).
• View sample course syllabus.

How to Enroll

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