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PSC 305sps: PRESIDENCY AND CONGRESS, Timetable for SPS accelerated course

By Jeremy Lewis.  Last revised 12 Mar. 2007.  Resource: Presidential debates.
Week: [01] [02] [03] [Test] [04] [05] [Final]
Week Author: Reading: Topic
Week 1 Introduction to the course
LeLoup 1 Patterns of Policymaking: Partners or Partisans?
LeLoup 2 The Constitution and Shared Governance
Week 2 LeLoup 3 The Presidency and Policymaking
LeLoup 4 Congress and Policymaking
Week 3 Midterm Essay Exam: 
LeLoup 5 Foreign Policy
LeLoup 6 Civil Rights Policy
Week 4 LeLoup 7 Economic and Budget Policy
LeLoup 8 Social Welfare Policy
Week 5 Research paper or set essay due
LeLoup 9 Shared Governance
Comprehensive FINAL Essay examination.

 
  • Links:
  • Documentary Videos (some clips may be shown, subject to time available)
  • War Room (Clinton campaign, 1992)
  • Speechless (recommended)
  • CBS, "The Real Life of Ron Reagan"
  • "The President and the Media."
  • All the President's Men. (on Watergate scandal, recommended)
  • CBS TV, Watergate: The Secret Story. (Documentary).
  • PBS Frontline, The Clinton Years
  • PBS, "The Long March of Newt Gingrich."
  • PBS, Frontline, "Fall of Newt Gingrich".
  • video: Nixon in China

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