# Calendar

Course calendar.
SES # | TOPICS | KEY DATES
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I. Foundations
1 | Course Description, Goals, and Requirements |
2 | Policy and Visions of Governance |
3 | Case: Needles and Safe Injection Sites | Assignment 1 due
4 | Theories of Public Policy: How Choices Are Made |
5 | Values and Public Policy |
6 | Policy Analysis – Case: Bees, Mites, and Pesticides | Skype with Haiti (re: mites and drought); Skype with New England Wildflower Society (re: pesticides)
7 | Policy Analysis – Bees (cont.) |
8 | Cost of Policy | Assignment 2 due
II. Major Policies
9 | Defense Policy |
10 | Cost Benefit Analysis |
11 | Cost Benefit (cont.) |
12 | Cost-Effectiveness and Regression Analysis – Appalachia Case Study | Assignment 3 due
III. Policy Process
13 | Cost-Effectiveness and Regression Analysis – Poverty in America (cont.) |
14 | Welfare – Focus Groups |
15 | Social Insurance |
16 | Health Policy – Vaccination Case Guest: Dr. Howard Heller, Associate Medical Director at MIT Medical |
17 | City Government Policy and the Media Guest: David Goodman, City Hall Reporter at The New York Times | Assignment 4 due
IV. Case Analysis
18 | Case: Air Emissions Policy; Federal Policy Guest: Coralie Cooper, Environmental Protection Specialist at Volpe |
19 | Case: Seed Conservation – New England Wild Flower Society; Regional Policy Guest: Debbi Edelstein, Executive Director of New England Wild Flower Society |
20 | Case: Boston Busing and Desegregation; Local Policy Guest: Joe Burnieika, Interim Director at Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Boston |
21 | Case: Land Readjustment Case; International Policy |
22 | Final Assignment Work Day |
23–25 | Project Presentations |
26 | Wrap Up | Final Paper due