You are a consultant advising a company or nonprofit that is interested in impacting outcomes in your issue area. Your job is to create a website that they can distribute through the company or nonprofit that will lay out a realistic strategy to groups seeking to solve the design challenge you have taken on.
What you should cover on your website:
- Describe the issue you are trying to address in your design challenge.
- How can we move toward a universal healthcare system in the United States (Panama)?
- How can we make college more equitable and affordable (South Africa)?
- How can we ensure equitable access to the Internet (Canada)?
- How can we reduce the prison population in the United States (Switzerland)?
- Describe an ideal solution referencing a comparison (or two)
- Craft a strategy given the limitations and opportunities of the US government system
- Your strategy should address opportunities or barriers in at least three of the areas from the list below referencing in particular readings from the class and the textbook.Choose any three of the following topics to discuss:
- Factions/Separation of Powers
- Federalism
- Congress
- Executive
- Judiciary
- Constitutional Change
- Civil Liberties
- Civil Rights
- Political Participation
- Polling
- Media
- Interest Groups
- Parties
- Campaigns and Elections
- Economic Policy
- Social Welfare Policy
- Foreign Policy
- Take advantage of the web to present your topic with things other than text.
- Be sure to cite any materials used that are not your own. Be aware of potential copyright and plagiarism issues.
Take the topic you have been working on in class and make a website (suggestions: Blogger through Google Docs or EduBlogs through your class account). Make sure you can relate it back to what you have learned in the class. Consider aspects of your topic that you could illustrate on a website using multimedia. Remember that your final portfolio will be created online for the world to see.
Here is an example from a past semester of an outstanding effort: https://1976texasportfolio.weebly.com
Remember that your website should tell a coherent story about your topic and how government can help resolve it and/or what kinds of barriers Texas government, political cultures, and political actors pose to its resolution.
Deadlines: The completed site should be up by the beginning of our final exam period (9 am, December 10, 2019). You must post a link to your site on the class WordPress site by that time.