This course is available for in-person and remote (online) learning.
What constitutes policy? When and why are policies made? What kinds of policies are made and how? This course lays out the framework of the policy process to facilitate understanding, evaluation, creation and reformulation of policies. It engages advocates, analysts, officers, stakeholders, and curious to establish clear arguments and stances. It also challenges each to go beyond their respective comfort zones to explore, develop, and document new skillsets for interacting with the others.
Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion, students will have the knowledge and skills to:
On successful satisfaction of the requirements of the course, students will have the knowledge and skills to:
1. Appraise and clarify how evaluative criteria distinguish “good” policies;
2. Differentiate and evaluate between policy typologies, policy-making stages, and policy-making models;
3. Develop and recommend improvement(s) to citizens’ participatory policymaking in the policymaking process for a policy area, clearly identifying and addressing the advantages, drawbacks, and tensions between participation, stakeholders, government, and policymaking;
4. Explain how the economy constrains policymaking;
5. Develop
and create a new policy-making model incorporating improvements to
citizens-participation in the policymaking process (this may be a prototype)
for a policy mandate that has ignited protests, taking care to engage multiple
stakeholders and participatory policymaking towards “good” policies or
outcomes.
Indicative Assessment
1. Research-led paper on a policy area (eg., health, women’s participation, education) that differentiates and distinguishes subject content (30%) (1200-1500 words)
2. Experiential learning through role-play (10%) and paper (40%) on how to advance a policy interest through to adoption based on interaction with different stakeholders (total 50%) (3000-3750 words)
3. Final examination (20%)
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Workload
5 hours equivalent
Prescribed Texts
Key reading list provided plus specific readings for each session will be provided.
Fees
Tuition fees are for the academic year indicated at the top of the page.
Commonwealth Support (CSP) Students
If you have been offered a Commonwealth supported place, your fees are set by the Australian Government for each course. At ANU 1 EFTSL is 48 units (normally 8 x 6-unit courses). More information about your student contribution amount for each course at Fees.
- Student Contribution Band:
- 14
- Unit value:
- 6 units
If you are a domestic graduate coursework student with a Domestic Tuition Fee (DTF) place or international student you will be required to pay course tuition fees (see below). Course tuition fees are indexed annually. Further information for domestic and international students about tuition and other fees can be found at Fees.
Where there is a unit range displayed for this course, not all unit options below may be available.
| Units | EFTSL |
|---|---|
| 6.00 | 0.12500 |
Course fees
- Domestic fee paying students
| Year | Fee |
|---|---|
| 2021 | $4110 |
- International fee paying students
| Year | Fee |
|---|---|
| 2021 | $5880 |
Offerings, Dates and Class Summary Links
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