CIVICS
"Get up, stand up, stand up for your rights"
Bob Marley
COURSE DESCRIPTION
A real-life course that will be focusing on the study of civics, the role, rights, and responsibilities of citizens, the organizations and function of government, the origins of purposes of law, and government policies and political processes.
A real-life course that will be focusing on the study of civics, the role, rights, and responsibilities of citizens, the organizations and function of government, the origins of purposes of law, and government policies and political processes.
STUDENT LEARNER OUTCOMES
Benefits of Civic Engagement and Service Learning Combining students' academic coursework with opportunities for relevant experiences enhances both their academic development as well as their readiness to take up their responsibilities as adult members of a democracy.
Civic Engagement and Service Learning experiences may include the following:
1. Help students develop stronger relationships with faculty and community
2. Improve students' satisfaction with college and career readiness
3. Increase the likelihood of graduation and life readiness
4. Aid in student retention
Academically, students demonstrate significant improvement in several areas:
1. Information literacy
2. Articulated thinking about Civic Engagement
3. Understanding of the connection between the university and public life
4. Academic engagement
5. Civic efficacy
6. Positive social and self-perceptions
7. Research-based writing
Benefits of Civic Engagement and Service Learning Combining students' academic coursework with opportunities for relevant experiences enhances both their academic development as well as their readiness to take up their responsibilities as adult members of a democracy.
Civic Engagement and Service Learning experiences may include the following:
1. Help students develop stronger relationships with faculty and community
2. Improve students' satisfaction with college and career readiness
3. Increase the likelihood of graduation and life readiness
4. Aid in student retention
Academically, students demonstrate significant improvement in several areas:
1. Information literacy
2. Articulated thinking about Civic Engagement
3. Understanding of the connection between the university and public life
4. Academic engagement
5. Civic efficacy
6. Positive social and self-perceptions
7. Research-based writing
Our government is based on 5 Major Principles:
1. Consent of the governed—People are the source of any and all governmental power.
“No man is good enough to govern another man without that other’s consent.”
Abe Lincoln
2. Limited government—Government is not all-powerful and may do only those things people have given it the power to do. “There is nothing more corrupting…than the exercise of unlimited power.”
William Henry Harrison
3. Rule of law—The government and those who govern are bound by the law.
“Power in human hands will ever be liable to abuse.”
James Madison
4. Democracy—In a democratic system of government the people rule.
“’We the people’ tell the government what to do, it doesn’t tell us.”
Ronald Reagan
5. Representative government—In a representative system of government people elect public officeholders to make laws and conduct government on their behalf. “Officeholders are the agents of the people, not their masters.”
Grover Cleveland
1. Consent of the governed—People are the source of any and all governmental power.
“No man is good enough to govern another man without that other’s consent.”
Abe Lincoln
2. Limited government—Government is not all-powerful and may do only those things people have given it the power to do. “There is nothing more corrupting…than the exercise of unlimited power.”
William Henry Harrison
3. Rule of law—The government and those who govern are bound by the law.
“Power in human hands will ever be liable to abuse.”
James Madison
4. Democracy—In a democratic system of government the people rule.
“’We the people’ tell the government what to do, it doesn’t tell us.”
Ronald Reagan
5. Representative government—In a representative system of government people elect public officeholders to make laws and conduct government on their behalf. “Officeholders are the agents of the people, not their masters.”
Grover Cleveland