Question: Read the below overview of this course. Discuss how you can apply the concepts learned in this course to your current or future career. How might the lessons you have learned positively impact your career success? (MINIMUM OF 150 WORDS)

Course Overview: Provides a critical overview of the public policy process and effects on public, nonprofit, and private organizations. Students identify the steps in the public policy and analysis process, including problem identification, policy formation, and implementation, as well as evaluate techniques within various public sectors and nonprofit organization environments. Students implement successful strategies using case analysis and demonstrate understanding of the policy steps as students apply them to a public policy moving through their state, city, or county legislature or policy regulation within the public agency. Explain the policy environment to include official policy makers and unofficial participants. Evaluate the major stages in the public policy process. Differentiate administrative politics and policymaking. Analyze the methodological problems in the study of public policymaking. Summarize theories of public policy decision-making. Discuss the relationship between public policy and budgeting. Assess future alternatives for reforming the relationships between government and the economy. Analyze the impact that education and healthcare policies have on the future of policymaking.