POL 311 - Political Parties and Public Opinion

3 Semester Hours
This is a writing intensive course designed to introduce students to the citizen’s role within the democratic process. More specifically, this course focuses on citizen’s patterns of participation, values, ideological orientations, political parties, party support bases, elections and voting behavior. In addition, the course will ask whether citizen’s participation overall is in decline and what effects it may have on democracy, if it is.

Writing Intensive