Course News
nov 18
The schedule shows an assignment for Interest Groups. Please disregard
it.
Decision
points
Nov16
Iraq's
lessons, on the home front
Volunteer veterans help California city use counterinsurgency strategy
to stem gang violence
By Karl Vick
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, November 15, 2009
Lecture11/16
Lecture from 11/11
fourth practice quiz here quiz
will be Friday 10/30
video
from 11/10
Lecture From 10/28, website
Lecture from 10/27
Lecture from 10/26
diagram from 10/19 , lecture
from 10/19
Lecture from 10/13 (no notes)
Lecture from 10/8 lecture
from 10/8
Lecture from 10/6
Lecture from 10/1
Lecture from 9/30
Lecture from 9/29
Course Outline
Congressional
Internships
Annenberg video
case studies Please go to this site and create an account.
Here is a source on what an annotated
bibliography is and how to make one .
Course Abstract
This course presents a survey of the origin and
development of the U.S. government. It covers the structure of the
Confederacy, Federalist papers, and functions of Congress, the Presidency
and Courts as well as Interest Groups, Civil Liberties, Political
Parties and Political Policy.
Assignment Types
You will be asked to do three types assignments
in this class:
- Weekly Quizzes,
...................................................................20%
- Weekly thinking.......................................................................20%
- term long policy
research. .....................................................50%
- Random in class assignments....................................................10%
Text:
Patterson: We The People
Richard Heffner: Documents in United States
History (on order: links to be provided at schedule page)
Daily News
It is required that you read a newspaper about
politics every day. I recommend the NY Times or the Washington Post
the LA Times or the Wall Street Journal as very good on National
News coverage.
I also recommend that you read an "alternative"
political news source. Alternative can be about:
- Specific issues (AARP Newsletter),
- Points of view (In These Times, Mother Jones,
National Review)
- or from foreign countries (The Economist
or The Guardian).
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