Policy Review @Berkeley is a student-led, interdisciplinary journal designed for students of all academic disciplines to reflect on and write about the policy implications in their fields of interest. This journal’s mission is to make policy easily accessible and understandable for undergraduates from varying disciplines and personal backgrounds. The Policy Review @Berkeley DeCal course is designed to help students build academic writing, policy-making, and analysis skills through comprehensive writing and thought-provoking simulations.

You should develop a foundational policy making and policy analysis skills through interviews, simulations, and academic writing assignments. You should be able to engage with elementary policy analysis, learn basic policy research skills, strengthen their academic writing, interviewing and literature review skills, and build public policy journaling skills. Students in the past have gone on to become facilitators of this course themselves.

This course begins Monday, February 13th from 6:30-8pm in the Social Sciences Building 126. For those interested in enrolling in the DeCal, please fill out this interest form and you will be sent an enrollment code to upload onto Cal Central. Please email policyreviewberkeley@gmail.com for more information.