US/American Government

This one-semester course is the study of the founding principles of democracy in the United States, the structures and details of how the government functions, and the role of the individual citizen in participating in that democracy. You will learn about the principles and events leading to the founding of the United States in the eighteenth century; examine how the operations of the US government are spread among three branches of government and distributed between the national, state, and federal levels of government; explore the role of the individual citizen in the operations of the government; and finally apply these concepts to understanding the concrete areas of foreign, domestic, and economic policy.