17.317  US Social Policy

Political science courses Fall '12

Dear class,

Thank you all for a wonderful semester. Professor Campbell and I look forward to reading your policy proposal papers. I will send an email next week about picking up scored essays for those interested in seeing how they did.

If you found the fourth paper topic interesting you might consider taking a course on public policy in the fall or branching out into other political science topics. There is also a year long internship program that prepares students to take part in internships in Washington DC in the summer.

http://web.mit.edu/polisci/academic-programs/undergraduate/subjects.shtml

http://web.mit.edu/summerwash/

If you have any questions about political science courses, the major/minor or the DC program, please don't hesitate to email professor Campbell or me, or email the undergraduate administrator Tobie Weiner.

I hope you all have a great summer, and congratulations to those walking in June.

Sincerely,

Nathan

Announced on 17 May 2012  5:48  p.m. by Nathan B Cisneros

Recitation 17 MAY

Dear class,

We would like to let you know that there _will_ be recitation on the 17th of MAY. On the plus side, you are free to focus on your other classes during finals period.

Stay dry this weekend.

-Nathan

Announced on 04 May 2012  1:01  p.m. by Nathan B Cisneros

Links to paper three websites

Dear class,

We have all your papers in and would like to share your classmates' group assignments for paper three. We will look at the wikis as a group in recitation over the next couple of weeks as we look at health care reform and the fiscal state of social policy in the United States.

Please take a moment to look over the pages below, particularly from the same locality as the one you worked on.

-Nathan

Dallas, TX
http://texas-socialpolicy.wikispaces.com/
http://dallas-social-programs.wikispaces.com/

Worcester, MA
http://ussocialpolicy-ma.wikispaces.com/
317worcester.wikispaces.com

Sacramento, CA
https://ussocialpolicyca.wikispaces.com/
http://california17317.wikispaces.com/

Jacksonville, FL
http://socialpolicyinjacksonvillefl.wikispaces.com/
http://zkf.me/w/Disability_Case_Study:_Jacksonville,_FL

Announced on 03 May 2012  1:29  p.m. by Nathan B Cisneros

Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act summaries

Dear class,

Here are some links to summaries of the issues at stake in the ACA cases before the Supreme Court. Please take a look at at least the first link. It is well-written and gives you an idea of the core components of the legislation.

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2012/03/19/us/guide-to-supreme-court-challenges-to-obama-health-care-law.html?ref=us

http://www.nationalreview.com/bench-memos/294294/summary-supreme-court-health-care-oral-arguments-ammon-simon#

http://www.npr.org/series/148920753/judging-the-health-care-law

Here is a summary the government provides of key provisions in the legislation:

http://www.healthcare.gov/law/timeline/full.html

-Nathan

Announced on 03 May 2012  11:36  a.m. by Nathan B Cisneros

Paper 3 Wikis

Dear class,

Please email me a link to your group's wiki/webpage if you have not already done so. Once everyone has submitted papers I will post all the links online for everyone to view. We will go over the contents next week.

Sincerely,

Nathan

Announced on 27 April 2012  4:41  p.m. by Nathan B Cisneros