The goal of this assignment is to have you describe key policy concepts using a variety of alternative media.
I will provide you with a list of key concepts (e.g. blaming the victim, globalization, deinstitutionalization, deficit financing, health care parity, lobbying, universal/selective welfare, street-level bureaucracy, cash/ in-kind benefits etc.). You will sign up to describe and illustrate any one of these concepts.
You will then use any medium: video, audio, interviews, role play, story-telling, photographs, drawings, graphics, songs, performing art etc. (but not a written essay) to explain this concept.
- Define it with examples using any of the above media.
- How is this concept evident to you in the news that you read and the events in our society?
- What are the policy implications and alternatives that this concept suggests?
- Ask a question about this concept that will generate a discussion in class.
- Present it to the class.
