Oh man, just finished my final for this class. While I completely did not intend it, my final ended up being 23 pages total. What really got me was the activist portion of the final. I went with the "campaign in a box" idea, though it ended up being a "campaign in a very, very long document" kind of a thing. I decided to create a hypothetical school called Sparta University that was going through some tough times. The university recently cut all of the women's programs on campus, which led to serious student disarray. I pretended that I was a campaign consultant hired out by some student on campus who wanted to create a campaign called "Save Women's Programs for Sparta!" but needed some guidance. So I put together a 15 page document for basically everything you need to know what running a campaign. It went over Targets, Strategies, Tactics, Goals, Timelines, etc. I even made a sample petition for this campaign to use!

It was really cool, albeit incredibly time consuming. But I think it could actually prove to be something pretty useful for anyone interested in starting their own campaign! I think that's what's most exciting about the project, is that it goes beyond the theoretical--someone could pick up that document and potentially turn it into a policy changing campaign. I think this was a really cool end to the semester because it shows that theory really does help with changing policy. While I would have been able to create a campaign before I wrote my theory piece, being able to have that theory to revolve it around was really interesting and seriously helpful. It made me zero in on the nuances of the campaign to see what I wouldn't have suggested before.

All in all--super proud of this final project :)