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2. SOC 320 Innovative Educator SOC 320 Week 1 DQ 1 Public Policy (Ash) For more course tutorials visit www.soc320.com Public Policy Consider and explain the following statement, “Public policy is both what government does and what it does not do” (Theodoulou&Kofinis, 2012). 1 What determines whether policy is enacted or not?

3. SOC 320 Innovative Educator SOC 320 Week 1 DQ 2 Republic or Democracy? “…and to the republic for which we stand…” (Ash) For more course tutorials visit www.soc320.com Republic or Democracy? “…and to the republic for which we stand…” Review the Declaration of Independence and the Pledge of Allegiance. Then, discuss republicanism and democracy

4. SOC 320 Innovative Educator SOC 320 Week 1 Journal Reflections on Federal Environmental Policy (Ash) For more course tutorials visit www.soc320.com 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

5. SOC 320 Innovative Educator SOC 320 Week 2 Assignment Education in the United States (Ash) For more course tutorials visit www.soc320.com Education in the United States 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.

6. SOC 320 Innovative Educator SOC 320 Week 2 DQ 1 Policy Process Theories (Ash) For more course tutorials visit www.soc320.com Policy Process Theories Describe the Stages-Heuristic theory of the policy process. What are the stages of policy development it includes?

7. SOC 320 Innovative Educator SOC 320 Week 2 DQ 2 Problem Identification and Agenda Setting (Ash) For more course tutorials visit www.soc320.com Problem Identification and Agenda Setting Examine and evaluate the problem identification and agenda setting stages of the policy process in this week’s required reading assignment. Discuss the process whereby a problem ultimately ends up on an agenda to be discussed.

8. SOC 320 Innovative Educator SOC 320 Week 2 Journal Reflections on Education Policy (Ash) For more course tutorials visit www.soc320.com 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.

9. SOC 320 Innovative Educator SOC 320 Week 3 DQ 1 MADD Grassroots Movement to Policy (Ash) For more course tutorials visit www.soc320.com MADD: Grassroots Movement to Policy Given that grassroots organizations often do not have the expertise, stature, or other resources of larger, more institutional stakeholders

10. SOC 320 Innovative Educator SOC 320 Week 3 DQ 2 Social Security (Ash) For more course tutorials visit www.soc320.com Social Security 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?

11. SOC 320 Innovative Educator SOC 320 Week 3 Journal Reflections on Federal Welfare Policy (Ash) For more course tutorials visit www.soc320.com Reflections on Federal Welfare 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

12. SOC 320 Innovative Educator SOC 320 Week 4 DQ 1 Lobbying (Ash) For more course tutorials visit www.soc320.com Lobbying 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

13. SOC 320 Innovative Educator SOC 320 Week 4 DQ 2 Health Care Reform Explained (Ash) For more course tutorials visit www.soc320.com Health Care Reform Explained Watch Health Reform Hits Main Street: The YouToons Explain the New Health Law

14. SOC 320 Innovative Educator SOC 320 Week 4 Journal Reflections on Health Care Policy (Ash) For more course tutorials visit www.soc320.com Reflections on Health-Care Policy 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

15. SOC 320 Innovative Educator SOC 320 Week 5 DQ 1 Obama and Romney on Immigration (Ash) For more course tutorials visit www.soc320.com Obama and Romney on Immigration Watch Obama and Romney Debate Each Other’s Immigration Policy (2012 Presidential Debate #2).

16. SOC 320 Innovative Educator SOC 320 Week 5 DQ 2 Policy Termination (Ash) For more course tutorials visit www.soc320.com Policy Termination Don’t Ask Don’t Tell (DADT) was a compromise between the Clinton administration and its opponents in Congress and the military.

17. SOC 320 Innovative Educator SOC 320 Week 5 Journal Reflections on Federal Immigration Policy (Ash) For more course tutorials visit www.soc320.com 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.

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