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POSC 330 - Voting and Public Opinion

1. Understand key theories of public opinion formation. Students will be able to explain how individuals form political opinions and the factors that influence those opinions, such as media, socialization, and personal experiences.
2.  Analyze voting behavior and patterns: Students will demonstrate the ability to analyze historical and contemporary voting trends, including turnout rates, demographic influences, and electoral outcomes.
3. Evaluate the role of public opinion in democratic governance: Students will assess the impact of public opinion on policy-making and the functioning of representative democracy, including how politicians respond to or shape public sentiment.

1. Analyze how power and social identity affect social outcomes for different cultural and economic groups using methods of social science inquiry and vocabulary appropriate to those methods.
2. Demonstrate an understanding of and ability to apply accurately disciplinary concepts of the social or behavioral sciences.
3. Demonstrate an understanding of and the ability to effectively plan or conduct research using an appropriate method of the social or behavioral sciences.
    

1. Describe the development of the Constitution from the political philosophies of its framers to its later interpretation and amendment.
2. Explain how the Constitution influenced the development of American political institutions and government.
3. Explain citizen rights and responsibilities under the Constitution.

1. Describe the roll of California’s Constitution in the state and local government.
2. Explain the place of California’s Constitution in the evolution of federal-state relations.
3. Describe the political processes that enable cooperation and conflict resolution between state and/or local governments and federal government.

1. Describe the histories and/or experiences of one or more U.S. cultural groups, and the resilience and agency of group members.
2. Identify structures of oppression and the diverse efforts and strategies used by U.S. cultural groups to combat the effects of oppressive structures.
3. Analyze the intersection of categories of race and gender as they affect U.S. cultural group members lived realities and/or as they are embodied in personal and collective identities.
4. Recognize the way that multiple differences (including, e.g., gender, class, sexuality, religion, disability, immigration status, gender expression, color/phenotype, racial mixture, linguistic expression, and/or age) within U.S. cul