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:

Here's the Center for the Study of the Presidency's link
(look for their Annual Symposium in April, essay awards and Fellowships for undergrads):
http://www.thepresidency.org/ .
Here's their journal, Presidential Studies Quarterly, very readable and useful for term papers:
http://www.thepresidency.org/psq/index.htm .

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