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Class Description: 

What is progressive policy and what are progressive political issues? What does it mean to be politically progressive? This class is intended to give students an overview of current topics on the progressive policy landscape, with topics varying from environmental, technological and foreign policy to how to frame and discuss politics in a progressive way.

This class will also familiarize students with the nation's first and only student-run think tank, The Roosevelt Institution, and inform them about how they can utilize this organization as a vehicle to get their progressive public policy ideas into the hands of actual policy makers.  

Weekly guest lecturers from various departments and organizations will discuss key policy issues, and in addition to class discussions, students will workshop and produce their own short opinion editorial policy pieces. This class will aid students in thinking critically about current policy issues, facilitate debate and discussion, and help organize, produce and promote student work.