The class has drawn students, as well asfaculty, from all over the University.

Twelve undergraduates learn together with sixgraduate students from the schools of government,design and public health.

"It's really a diverse group," said NickySheats, a 1982 graduate of the Law School and theKennedy School and the teaching fellow for thecourse. "So far, I think they are getting alongfine."

Sheats said the group is a good model forproblem-solving situations in the real world, whenpeople approach problems from differentperspectives--scientist or politician,industrialist or activist.

Class activities are designed to model realworld situations. For the first segment, studentsconsidering the problem of ozone depletion werebroken up into groups and charged with developingcompeting policy recommendations. Another group ofstudents will pose as the president's domesticpolicy council, listen to the policyrecommendations and make a judgment.

During the course of the semester, the classwill also tackle a wetlands shopping centercontroversy, tropical deforestation and toxicwaste disposal