Burning issues are somewhat like case studies in that they cut across the curriculum, bringing expertise from a variety of fields to bear on a single problem. As the name implies they are centered around hot topics -- usually public policy questions that are in the news. They will be produced in "real time" so that they are current. They may be a little less polished than case studies and they may very well disappear from CCP when they are no long current OR they may form the basis for a case study that will have a more lasting place in CCP.

Whereas case study modules are distributed throughout the structure of CCP and more thoroughly integrated into the structure, burning issues modules are all reached immediately through this button.