Open when gep_category = HUM
Each course in the Humanities category of the General Education Program will provide instruction and guidance that help students to:
Open when gep_category = MATH
Each course in the Mathematial Sciences category
of the General Education Program will provide instruction and
guidance that help students to:
Open when gep_category = NATSCI
Each course in the Natural Sciences category
of the General Education Program will provide instruction and
guidance that help students to:
Open when gep_category = SOCSCI
Each course in the Social Sciences category
of the General Education Program will provide instruction and
guidance that help students to:
Analyze how psychological and partisan biases influence citizen behavior in elections
Paper assignment prompt: explore your own partisan and ideological history and discuss how it has influenced your behavior in the political realm.
Critically evaluate political science data on campaigns and elections (e.g., public opinion polls, turnout figures, etc.)
Test question: What factors do you think may account for women’s equal participation in turnout, but lower participation in political discussion as reflected in the accompanying chart?
Apply knowledge about campaigns and elections to critiquing contemporary United States elections
Paper assignment:
Choose a 2014 race for U.S. Congress, from a state other than North Carolina. The race should have been competitive, i.e., the winner received no more than 55% of the vote. Analyze why the race turned out as it did. Who won and why? Was there an incumbent or was it an open-seat race—how did this affect the outcome? What impact did the demographic and ideological make-up of the constituents have? How would you characterize the media coverage of this race? How did national political factors affect this Congressional race?
Open when gep_category = INTERDISC
Each course in the Interdisciplinary Perspectives category of the General Education Program will provide instruction and guidance that help students to:
Open when gep_category = VPA
Each course in the Visual and Performing Arts category of the General Education Program will provide instruction and guidance that help students to:
Open when gep_category = HES
Each course in the Health and Exercise Studies category of the General Education Program will provide instruction and guidance that help students to:
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Open when gep_category = GLOBAL
Each course in the Global Knowledge category of the General Education Program will provide instruction and guidance that help students to achieve objective #1 plus at least one of objectives 2, 3, and 4:
Please complete at least 1 of the following student objectives.
Open when gep_category = USDIV
Each course in the US Diversity category
of the General Education Program will provide instruction and
guidance that help students to achieve at least 2 of the following
objectives:
Please complete at least 2 of the following student objectives.