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CURRICULUM
The John Glenn School's Washington Academic Internship Program welcomes students from any major. While in Washington, students enroll in three upper-division courses offered through the Department of Political Science. Students from other majors are encouraged to consult with their advisors before and after they complete the program in order to ascertain whether their Washington course-work may count toward their majors.
The Washington curriculum consists of three courses for a total of 15 credit hours. While there are specific course titles and numbers, the ideas, texts, policy concerns, class discussions, and featured speakers will not exist in discrete units, but will flow from one week to the next in a reinforcing manner. By paying careful attention to the readings, and thinking deeply and critically about issues of public service and public policy, each student will leave Washington with a more nuanced and sophisticated approach to many different issue areas.
We require a body of common readings on civil society, political participation, public service and the role of education in public life, as well as a text on public policy formation and readings relevant to contemporary policy debates. Each student will write a research paper exploring a particular aspect of public policy that is drawn from his/her intellectual interests, academic preparation, and ideas and experiences gleaned from the Washington field placement. Due to the individualized topics and diverse disciplines of members of each class, research questions, designs, and bibliographies will vary widely.
Each Glenn Fellow will enroll in the three following courses:
PS 589G Student Internships in Politics and Public Policy:
This course is centered on your field placement at which you work four full days a week. You might want to keep an Internship Journal, but this is no a requirement. In this, you may note your activities, interviews, assignment, briefings, professional impressions of your work place and colleagues. You will be asked to deliver a brief, formal (timed) presentation about the institutional culture of your workplace. Grades for this course will be based on your performance in class talking about your internship and the evaluation of your performance given by your supervisors at the end of the term.
PS 678G Political Decision-Making and Public Policy:
This is the signature course for the Washington Academic Internship Program consisting of most of our class discussion, common readings, and guest speakers. It is to expose you to the field of public policy and invite you to reflect on the connection between public service and public policy. You will be required to write three, five page papers for this course based on the assigned readings. Grades will be determined by the quality of your weekly discussion and questions of each other and our speakers, and the style, substance and analysis displayed in your three critical essays.
PS 679G Policy Analysis:
Individual and group tutorials will help identify and develop your paper topic, bibliography, and final product. Each student must submit a research question, develop an appropriate research strategy, submit a draft, give a formal, oral presentation of your paper, and turn in a 10-15 page paper at the end of the term. Your grade will be based on all the above, but especially the oral presentation and final paper.
Required texts for Winter quarter 2007:
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