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63040 *AP® COMPARATIVE GOVERNMENT AND POLITICS
Open to: 10-11-12
Length: 1 semester
Credits: 1/2 credit
Prerequisite: Student must have completed *AP® United States Government and Politics or receive approval from Department chair. Students should be able to read and comprehend college-level texts and write grammatically correct complete sentences.
NOTE: Students enrolling in an AP® class will automatically be registered for that course's exam. An exam Opt-Out option is available.
Content: AP® Comparative Government and Politics offers students the opportunity to expand beyond the more traditional courses to study a variety of political systems around the world. This college-level course is about power and politics. It will also introduce you to the comparative study of politics, which is an area of political science that looks at different political systems and compares them in an effort to generalize about political structures, processes, institutions, and actions. For our purposes, a comparative study of politics will enable us to compare similar systems to see how they work, or don't work, as well as different systems, to see in what ways they differ and what difference it makes.
Activities: Multiple texts, research projects, multimedia presentations, computer activities, discussions, group activities, reports, case studies, outside reading, and internet activities.
Cost: An exam fee if AP® exam is taken.
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