Teaching a Science Policy Course
Teaching Resources
Aoife McCarthy, "Students Schooled in Shaping Policy," Politico -- This article discusses Georgetown University's "Shaping National Science Policy" course. This course requires students to spend a semester lobbying Congress in an effort to shape science policies.
Science Policy 101: Taking Science Policy Out of Washington and Into the Classroom -- Talk by Homer A. Neal, University of Michigan, AAAS Annual Meeting, Chicago, Illinois.
Introducing Students to Science Policy: A Scientific Society Perspective -- Talk by Genene Fisher, Senior Policy Fellow, American Meteorological Society Policy Program, Adjunct Assistant Professor, North Carolina State University, AAAS Annual Meeting, Chicago, Illinois.
Aoife McCarthy, "Students Schooled in Shaping Policy," Politico -- This article discusses Georgetown University's "Shaping National Science Policy" course. This course requires students to spend a semester lobbying Congress in an effort to shape science policies.
Science Policy 101: Taking Science Policy Out of Washington and Into the Classroom -- Talk by Homer A. Neal, University of Michigan, AAAS Annual Meeting, Chicago, Illinois.
Introducing Students to Science Policy: A Scientific Society Perspective -- Talk by Genene Fisher, Senior Policy Fellow, American Meteorological Society Policy Program, Adjunct Assistant Professor, North Carolina State University, AAAS Annual Meeting, Chicago, Illinois.
Science Policy Course and Syllabi Examples
If you are interested in teaching an introductory course in science policy, below are some examples of syllabi others have developed and used. If you have a degree program you would like to be featured please contact us at beyondsputnik@sciencepolicy.us.
University of Michigan - Homer A. Neal & James J Duderstadt
National Science Policy in the 21st Century, May 2013
Columbia University - Michael E. Mauel
Science for Policy and Policy for Science: The roles of science in the advancement of our national goals, Fall 2014
Massachusetts Institute of Technology - William Bonvillian
Science Policy Bootcamp, Spring 2011
University of California Washington, D.C. Center - David Goldston and Patrick Windham
The Politics of Science and Technology Policy, Summer 2014
The Ohio State University - Jeffrey Bielicki
Science, Engineering, and Public Policy, Spring 2018
University of Colorado - Jack Burns
Space Science: Practice & Policy, Fall 2021
CUNY - Michael Lubell
Science and Technology in New York City, Fall 2014
George Washington University - Nicholas Vonortas
International Science and Technology Policy Cornerstone, Fall 2021
University of Arizona - Kevin Marvel
Science Policy
University of Wisconsin - Benjamin Cohen
The Governance of Technology: An Introduction to Engineering and Public Policy, Fall 2011
University of North Carolina - Chad Hobson, Joshua Conrad Jackson, and Katherine Taylor
Science and Society, Fall 2019
Princeton University - Harold Shapiro
Science, Technology, and Public Policy, Fall 2018
University of Minnesota - Gabe Chan
Science, Technology, and Environmental Policy, Fall 2015