Participating in the Policymaking Process: A Pedagogical Analysis of a Service- Learning Project to Write a City Public Art Ordinance
Faculty Mentor(s) Name(s)
Max Harleman
Abstract
During the Fall semester of 2023, my undergraduate Public Policy Making class was given the amazing opportunity to work on a Public Art Ordinance for the city of Milledgeville. The first half of the semester was filled with literature to better our understanding of how a policy becomes a law. We learned the analysist of policies and how to ensure best practices are being followed. The second half of the semester, our class was split into teams. There was the design team, implementation, maintenance and evaluation, and communications team. I had the honor of being a part of the design team. Our job was to write the ordinance, so how we did this was by looking at other municipalities in Georgia. We used Atlanta, Macon, Milledgeville, and Rome to form our ordinance. By using the structure of Milledgeville's ordinances and seeing how other cities in Georgia laid out their ordinance, our team was equipped with creating an ordinance that fit the city of Milledgeville. By using other cities as a framework, it was important that our ordinance complied with all relevant laws and regulations. After creating the ordinance, we put together an executive summary to present to the Milledgeville City Council. We are on the calendar to present our draft ordinance in January. My research will be about the different ways of teaching public policy. My professor, Dr. Max Harleman, has created surveys that shows what students like more. The choice being the first half of the semester when students were allowed to learn about public policy, policy analysis, and how to ensure policies are working, compared to the second half of the semester when students were applying that knowledge to a real-world policy problem. Public Policy Making, Report.docx
Start Date
27-3-2024 10:40 AM
End Date
27-3-2024 10:48 AM
Location
Arts and Sciences 2-75
Participating in the Policymaking Process: A Pedagogical Analysis of a Service- Learning Project to Write a City Public Art Ordinance
Arts and Sciences 2-75
During the Fall semester of 2023, my undergraduate Public Policy Making class was given the amazing opportunity to work on a Public Art Ordinance for the city of Milledgeville. The first half of the semester was filled with literature to better our understanding of how a policy becomes a law. We learned the analysist of policies and how to ensure best practices are being followed. The second half of the semester, our class was split into teams. There was the design team, implementation, maintenance and evaluation, and communications team. I had the honor of being a part of the design team. Our job was to write the ordinance, so how we did this was by looking at other municipalities in Georgia. We used Atlanta, Macon, Milledgeville, and Rome to form our ordinance. By using the structure of Milledgeville's ordinances and seeing how other cities in Georgia laid out their ordinance, our team was equipped with creating an ordinance that fit the city of Milledgeville. By using other cities as a framework, it was important that our ordinance complied with all relevant laws and regulations. After creating the ordinance, we put together an executive summary to present to the Milledgeville City Council. We are on the calendar to present our draft ordinance in January. My research will be about the different ways of teaching public policy. My professor, Dr. Max Harleman, has created surveys that shows what students like more. The choice being the first half of the semester when students were allowed to learn about public policy, policy analysis, and how to ensure policies are working, compared to the second half of the semester when students were applying that knowledge to a real-world policy problem. Public Policy Making, Report.docx