POLI1066 Public Policy

Assessment Overview

In weeks 8-11 we will canvas some 'key policy debates' that in some way are controversial, divisive or cause debate amongst sections of the Australian community.

In your Key Issues Statement, you selected one of these debates as a focus for your final two assessments. You described the key stakeholders in respect to your chosen debate and the key issues at stake in the debate.

In this next, summative, assessment you are required to consider the debate and the key issues relevant to it and develop and defend your own position in respect to it. You make take the side of one stakeholder or group of stakeholders, or you may develop your own position.

This assessment addresses the CLOs. Upon successful completion of the course you will be able to:

1. Give an accurate account of what public policy is and how it affects our lives
2. Describe the general processes through which public policy is developed and implemented
3. Identify and analyse the ways in which different policy actors can enable and also limit the possibility of just and equitable policies
4. Apply policy analysis techniques to interpret and critique particular policies that relate to your professional field, and effectively present your findings