POLITICAL SCIENCE: INTRODUCTION TO AMERICAN GOVERNMENT & POLITICS
Offered By: Foothill College via California Community Colleges System
Course Description
Overview
Contemporary analysis of the structure and function of American government and California state government, both their constitutional and political systems at the federal, state and local levels. Focus on the following topics: paradigms in the social sciences, models of justice and models of democracy, evolution of American elites and American constitutionalism, role of media in American political culture, political parties and political socialization, concept of the separation of powers: legislative, executive and judiciary branches, protest and protest movements, Civil Rights Acts of 1964 and 1991.
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