POLI 1130

Students will examine the institutions and processes associated with the political life of the world's most powerful country: the United States. They will study the essentials of the U.S. constitutional framework and the executive, legislative and judicial branches of its government, as well as the party system, the electoral system and election finance. Students will analyze the role played by pressure groups, corporations and the media in American politics, and explore the basics of federalism, the role of race, and Indigenous peoples in political life of the Republic. This course is equivalent with POLI 3100. Students may earn credit for only one of these courses.