STANDARD COMPETENCIES:

 

 I.      Students will discuss the roles and responsibilities of the presidency

 II.     Students will review the history of U.S. presidents and the presidency

 III.    Students will demonstrate basic familiarity with the presidential nomination system and the Electoral College

 IV.     Students will discuss campaigns and campaign finance reform

 V.      Students will examine the relationship between the president and the public

 VI.     Students will examine the relationship between the president and the media

 VII.    Students will determine how leadership styles and character affect the presidency

 VIII.   Students will analyze the relationship between the president and the bureaucracy

 IX.     Students will critically evaluate how the president interacts with other branches of government

 X       Students will develop an understanding of how the president influences/makes public policy

 TOPICAL OUTLINE:

 

 I.      A history of presidents and the presidency: Big Business, Labor, Immigrants, Suffrage

 II.     WWI through the 1920`s: Normalcy, Prosperity

 III.    The 1930`s - Guilt, Gangsters, the and the Growth of Big Government

 IV.     WWII and the 1940`s - Big Band and a Bigger Boom: War, Truman, Hiroshima

 V.      The 1950`s - The Big Chill: Korean War, Cold War

 VI.     The Sixties - Helter Skelter in the Summer Swelter

         A.      Chaos, Civil Rights and Civil Disobedience

 VII.    The Seventies ¿ End of War, Watergate, Me Generation, Women¿s Movement, Ecology, Mass Media

 VIII.   The Eighties - Big Brother Meets Big Business, Toward 1984

 IX.     The Presidency: nomination, Electoral College, campaigns, reform

 X       The Presidency and the public and the media

 XI.     Leadership and character

 XII.    The president and the bureaucracy, interactions with the other branches

 XIII.   The presidency and public policy and foreign policy