
Students are not required to attend the live sessions if the time does not work with their schedules. All sessions will be recorded and posted for review.

The estimated amount of work per week is 6 hours outside of the live session. Assignments may include online activities, research projects, short essays, watching videos with response questions, or texts/news articles with reflective questions. There will be a bi-weekly quiz and several weekly assignments. We will meet weekly to review the significant ideas and discuss relevant examples. The course will be centered around the concepts presented in the primary textbook. The course is designed to be very interactive, with students interacting with each other and the instructor frequently through the Canvas learning management system and the weekly live session. The class will also include frequent discussions to facilitate the exploration of ideas and internalization of the content. Also, students will create a multi-part civics engagement project centered around the creation of an interest group of their choice. In addition, students will get a chance to design political cartoons, develop a mock campaign, analyze current events, and much more. Students will learn to interpret data, analyze the political process from various viewpoints, and describe how various political groups function today. political behavior, attitudes, ideologies, and institutions are shaped by a number of factors over time. Methods of Political Analysis – Using various types of analyses, political scientists measure how U.S.Competing Policy-Making Interests – Multiple actors and institutions interact to produce and implement possible policies.laws and policy making and assume citizens will engage and participate. Civic Participation in a Representative Democracy – Popular sovereignty, individualism, and republicanism are important considerations of U.S.

Constitution and have been interpreted differently over time.
