PUBPOL 750.505: Topics: Storytelling in Policy Writing: People & Numbers | Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy
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PUBPOL 750.505: Topics: Storytelling in Policy Writing: People & Numbers

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Level
Graduate
Term
Winter 2018
Course Section
505
U-M Course Number
28025
Credit Hours
1

This new half-semester course takes its inspiration from Ta-Nehisi Coates' "The Case for Reparations." In his essay, Coates employs a mix of writing modes–the statistical and the anecdotal, as well as the journalistic and even the biblical–in order to argue for a policy idea that might be otherwise all too quickly dismissed. In our course, students will choose a policy topic they care deeply about and make a case for it. To steal a line from Luke Schaefer, students will write the paper they came to grad school to write. Download Coursemart Audio.