Spring
2008 
St. Charles Community College
Course Schedule and Reading Assignments --due dates for assignments & exams
Syllabus --Assignments & Grading --(in Rich Text
format-)
New WebCT site
--WebCT
allows you to see your grade, post messages & send private email
Textbook Website -- you can take practice quizzes on this site ("Diagnostic quizzes")
Usefull Websites -- scroll down for American Government Sites
Internet Readings:
Internet
readings as found in the study guides and course schedule, including
the following:
| Read by: |
Title | Source |
Author |
| Ch. 4 |
“The Inquisition….” | Christian
Science Monitor |
by Susan Dunn |
| Ch. 5 |
“Report Cites Life-Span…” | by Chaka
Ferguson |
|
| Ch. 5 |
Black
drivers more likely... |
St. Louis Post 5/31/2005 |
by Joel Currier |
| Ch. 7 | The Fiction Behind Torture Policy | Newsweek 8/4/2008; p11 | Dahlia Lithwick |
| Ch. 16 |
"Paying More, Living Less" | St. Louis Post Dispatch, 8/27/2003 | editorial |
| Ch. 17 |
“What Would Jesus Tax?” | by Kevin Horrigan | |
| Ch. 17 (optional) |
"A fix but no cure..." | BBCNews.com; 6/3/2004 |
by Imogen Foulkes |
Objectives (study guides) for:
Quizzes & Midterm
Mini-Lectures --go here to
see Minilectures of some of the more difficult topics.
Required Texts and
Materials