A study of the legislative, executive and judicial branches of government at both the national and state levels.  Also covers economic, regulatory, and foreign policy as well as civil rights and civil liberties.

This is a core curriculum course.

This Internet government course will cover the same materials as the traditional in-class course. One major difference is that you do not have to attend lectures and we will communicate more often with one another online. Obviously, the main difference is that this course requires you to be self-motivated. You will have to rely on yourself to complete the readings, study the materials and participate in discussions. This course assumes that you have basic computer skills, or a basic level of computer literacy. By the end of the course, you will be comfortable navigating a "virtual classroom," participating in online discussions (synchronous and asynchronous), surfing the Web for supplementary information about government and politics - this supplementary information will be both written, visual and auditory, so you will need to read, as well as watch and listen carefully.