POL 301 - Congress, The Presidency, and Elections, 3 credit hours

Notes: Recommended background: POL 101D

This course is an in-depth exploration of Congress, the presidency, and how the people who hold those offices are elected. The primary theme of this course is: politics is math. If you really want to understand anything that happens in Washington, you need to know how to count, or hire someone who can. Many people argue that Washington is “broken.” Are we really facing a crisis in our national political institutions? This course fulfills the Writing Extension requirement for the Core.