Prerequisites: graduate standing or consent of instructor

Description: Focuses on the political dimensions of education policy issues, processes, and choices pertaining to governmental arrangements, community contexts, and interest group pressure. Provides conceptual frameworks and perspectives that examine political decision making. Utilizes case studies of educational policy making in educational institutions at the local and state levels. May be taken Satisfactory (S) or No Credit (NC) with consent of instructor and graduate advisor. Course is repeatable as content changes to a maximum of 12 units.