Unpacked Content
Knowledge
Students know:
- How national security policy-making decisions are accompanied by variety of costs and effects.
- The primary actors in policy-making decisions on both national and international levels.
- What policy-makers consider in making policy decisions in respect to both causes of the issue as well as possible outcomes of decision.
Skills
Students are able to:
- Appraise a policy decision for both its causes and effects.
- Assess the outcomes of national security decisions using a variety of sources including, but not limited to: maps, graphs, and news articles.
Understanding
Students understand that:
- Policy-making decisions have the ability to impact social, world, technological, economic, and political issues in significantly beneficial and harmful ways.
Vocabulary
- United Nations
- public policy
- foreign policy
- domestic policy
- humanitarian
- cost analysis
- intended v. unintended outcome
- diplomacy
