COURSE OUTLINE

Participation in Government (H7)

(Adapted from New York State Education department Guidelines)

Requirements

The requirements for Participation in Government (H7) are simple, fair and straightforward. All students are required to:

• attend class every day

• arrive on time

• bring necessary school supplies (pens, pencils, standard-size notebook with a separate section for H7)

• arrive ready to work

• arrive with a positive attitude

• do assigned work

Topics Covered in Participation in Government (H7)

• Unit A: Philosophical Foundations and Comparative Perspectives

• Purposes and principles of government, politics, and the law

• Unit B: Citizenship in Comparative Perspective

• Roles and rights of citizenship
• Becoming a citizen

• Unit C: Citizenship, Participation, and the Electoral Process

• Does your vote count?

• Political party system

• Preparing to vote

• Seeking public office

• Campaigns and elections

• Becoming an effective media consumer

• Unit D: Legal Obligations of Citizenship

• Registering for the Selective Service

• Civic implications of taxation

• Responding to jury duty

• Place of the jury in a democratic system

• Unit E: Public Policy and Political Participation

• Doing public policy research

• Distribution of federal, state, and local powers in the federal system

• Workings of the public policy process

• Purposes, principles, and values reflected in the policy process

• Becoming more involved in the policy process

• Unit F: Legal Rights and Responsibilities

• Legal rights and responsibilities in civic life, and in the workplace and school

• How rights can vary from place to place