POL3140 Lecture Notes - The Christian Science Monitor, Al Jazeera America, Academic Dishonesty
20 Mar 2014
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All emails will be answered within 2 business days of receipt. Major characteristics of government and political life in the united states: constitution and institutions, political culture, political processes and representation, political parties, social movements, social and racial disparities, electoral issues, current events. The first is to familiarize students with the institutions and structures of political life in the contemporary united states. To that end, we will study formal political institutions and practices of all types. Classes will include lectures, whole-class discussions, and small-group discussions with report- backs. Lectures will include multi-media components; powerpoint slides will be uploaded to lecturetools and/or blackboard. Attendance and participation will be graded in two ways: through the use of instance response questions in class, which you will answer via lecturetools. com, and through in-class discussions with a small group of peers. Each class will contain one or the other of these techniques.
