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Thursday, January 25

What Are We Doing Today?

-Today's Goals!

-Warm Up: Integrated Assignment

-Exam Prep

-Calendar Update 

-Reminders

Today's Goals

Learning Outcome:

Demonstrate competence of knowledge related to the learning community discipline(s) in a public forum.

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Habit of Mind:

Responsibility is fostered when writers are encouraged to recognize their own role in learning;

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Warm Up

Let's do some brainstorming for the research you will be doing this semester...

On a document in your Online Folder, respond to the following:

  • What are you passionate about?

  • What are you interested in?

  • What pisses you off?

  • What do you think you will be researching this semester?

Exam Prep

Reminders

Pull out your textbooks and lets work on defining the key terms from the book.

Topic Review Guide: Introduction

  • Rules

  • Social Order

  • Institutions

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Topic Review Guide: Topic 1: 

  • Capitalist Economy

  • Socialist Economy

  • Authoritarian Government

  • Totalitarian Government

  • Procedural Gurantees

  • Regulated Capitalism

  • Social Democracy

  • Authoritarian Capitalism 

  • Republic

  • Substantive Guarantees

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Are there any of the key terms defined in class that you are struggling with?

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Let's work on the Discussion Questions from the Topic Review Guides...

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Topic Review Guide: Introduction

  • Discuss the notion of legitimacy and how it is related to authority and government

  • Discuss how government and politics are distinct and related.

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Topic Review Guide: Topic 1

  • Explain how the legitimacy of government is related to political culture.

  • Define each of the key values of American political culture presented in class.

  • Define democracy in terms of three key elements as it was defined in class and discuss each of these elements.

  • Discuss how individualism shapes our understanding of the other four key values of American political culture presented in class. 

A) Keep prepping for the exam!

  •  You should be working on key terms and reviewing the discussion questions as we go through the lecture. 

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B) Learning Community Points?! Update?

  • Articles should be posted in the Political Science Blackboard.

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C) SLEEP!

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D) SI Sessions

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