Lectures for Introduction to American Government


First Day of Class

Chapter 1: Thinking about Politics

Chapter 2: Political Culture

Chapter 3: The Constitution

Chapter 4: Federalism

Chapter 5: Civil Liberties

Chapter 6: Civil Rights part I And Part II

Chapter 7: Public Opinion and Political Socialization

Chapter 7, Part II

How to Maximize Obama's Approval Ratings in a fairly worded survey due to question order

Chapter 8: Political Participation

Chapter 9: Voting and Elections

Chapter 10: Media!

Chapter 11: Political Parties

Chapter 12: Interest Groups

Chapter 13: Congress

Chapter 14: the Presidency

Chapter 15: Judicial System

Chapter 16: The Bureaucracy

Chapter 17: Part I and Part II

Health Care Stats

Chapter 18: Foriegn Policy Notes and a study of media coverage of WMD (p. 11 for summary)