30:001
INTRODUCTION TO AMERICAN
POLITICS
Lecture AAA and Section SCA
Professor Cary R. Covington
SPRING 2009
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
CHANGE IN LOCATION OF FINAL EXAM:The Final Exam will take place in Room C20 of the Pomerantz Center.
The day and time of the exam (Tuesday, December 15, 2:15 p.m.) remain the same.
H1N1 Flu Policy:
"Public health authorities have recommended that people with flu-like illnesses stay home and not return to public spaces until 24 hours after they have no fever. In order to prevent the spread of disease, please do not come to class, meet with other groups of students, attend office hours, or contact offices in person while you are ill. Based on this recommendation, I will not require you to report to a doctor or to Student Health to verify a flu-like illness if you are ill, please complete an illness-absence form (http://www.registrar.uiowa.edu/forms/H1N1_absence_form.pdf) when you are well enough to do so. Your grade will not be penalized for absences if you are following the recommendations of health authorities."
Professor Covington's Home Page
Lecture AAA Syllabus
Section SCA Syllabus
Lecture AAA Teaching Assistants: Section Assignments and Office Hours
LECTURE AAA MATERIALS:
TA section and contact information.pdf
- FIRST MIDTERM
- Course Outline
- Course Visual Aids
- SECOND MIDTERM
- Course Outline
Course Visual Aids - Set One
FINAL EXAM
- Course Outline - all topics
Course Visual Aids for Congress
- in PowerPoint Slides
- "I'm Just A Bill" School House Rock
Course Visual Aids for the Presidency
Course Visual Aids for the Bureaucracy and the Courts
ADDITIONAL COURSE RESOURCES
- Gerrymandering: Gerrymandering: Advantages and Disadvantages @ Allen
- Incumbency Advantages: Technology Sharpens the Incumbent's Edge @ VanderHei and Babington
- Congressional Elections: Campaign Finance Reform @ Stuart Taylor
- Congress: Committee Assignment Process @ Newt Gingrich
- Congress: Lawmakers from Purple Districts Walk a Thin Line @ Cohen & Friel
- Presidency: Going Public @ Samuel Kernell