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Days, Times, and Locations

Monday
6:00 pm - 7:50 pm
Chapman Science Academic Center - Rm. S117 - map

Class Number (Formerly CRN)

20347

Instructor(s)

Monica Galligan

Enrollment

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Course Description:

Covers fundamentals of government, particularly how the US Constitution and the structure and processes of democracy affect current environmental and natural resource issues. Provides comparisons between US, California state and local government and how each of these affect their lives. Students track media coverage of governmental and environmental issues to understand how government works. Students learn how to engage in politics to make change. Prerequisite: Requires successful completion of coursework that satisfies the ENGCOM A ULR. (Offered fall and spring semesters.)

Corequisites, Prerequisites & Restrictions:

(Prerequisites: EngCom A)

Footnotes:

• No footnotes

Start & End Dates:

Start: January 25, 2010
End: May 23, 2010

Consent Requirements:

Catalog History

Course Materials

David B. Magleby, Paul C. Light, Government by the people (New York: Longman, 2009)
ISBN: 9780136062226
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Required Reading

edited Norman J. Vig, Michael E. Kraft, Environmental policy : new directions for the twenty-first century (Washington, D.C.: CQ Press, 2006)
ISBN: 9781933116013
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Required Reading

Matthew Alan Cahn, H. Eric Schockman, David M. Shafie, Rethinking California : politics & policy in the Golden State (Upper Saddle River, NJ [u.a.]: Prentice Hall, 2001)
ISBN: 0134679121
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Reccomended Reading