Electives

0.5 Credit
Grade 12

This course explores the many facets of America's government. Lessons cover the fundamental values and principles, rights, responsibilities, and limits, the Bill of Rights and the Constitution, the role of the president, lawmakers, and judges, state government, taxation, diversity, and the role of religion in our government. The course encourages students to understand the present system in America by looking at the past.

This course has no required purchases.

This course covers the following topics:

• A New Nation
• The Constitution
• The Bill of Rights
• Branches of Government
• The Electoral College System
• Political Parties
• Political Policy
• Government by the People
• Interest Groups