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POL 101 - American Government

Syllabus --  donkey elephant DC

course schedule, reading assignments and grading (preliminary draft in PDF format- may change

Midterm: 3/9/2011 

Final: 5/11/2011

Extra Credit

How to Get an A in this class

Textbook Website

-- you can take practice quizzes for each chapter

Objectives (study guides) for:

Quizzes and Midterm 

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Quizzes and Final

Mini-Lectures

Go here to see Minilectures of some of the more difficult topics

Other required clips & readings:

be sure to review the study guides for other articles & readings

note: you may need your student ID number to view some of them are also available on Moodle

Required Texts and Materials

Ginsberg, Lowi and Weir; We the People.  The textbook offers web exercises and study questions (in addition to my study guide) at:  www.wwnorton.com

The Federalist Papers #10 and #51 (in the Appendix of the text) --for help on these essay, see the sites linked on my webpage

Articles on reserve at the SCC library include:

Missouri Voters Handbook , 10th ed. (for the online MO Government Quiz)

Palast, Greg. The Best Democracy Money Can Buy. (selected pages)