1. POLS 2301
Mr. Bartl

2. Use Your Required Materials and Own Your Grade
Welcome to American Government

3. Textbook
3

4. • Course Requirements
• Final Grades will be
calculated as follows:
• Blogs – 50 %
• Chapter Tests – 20 %
• Final Exam – 20 %
• Participation and
Attendance – 10%

5. • Blogs • Entry – 500 words or
- weekly writing more, due every
assignment discussing the Monday
material from the Nichols
reader • Responses – Two 250
- should engage and word responses due
discuss, not summarize every Friday
- Will divide class into
groups of three

6. • Chapter Tests – 5 • Final Exam – a final,
online, multiple comprehensive, in
choice tests; lowest class exam given
score will be during finals week
dropped

7. • Attendance and • Any student missing
Participation more than 10 class
meetings will fail
• Being late is
considered the same
as being absent

8. • Personal Electronic
Devices are
prohibited

9. • First Readings – this • For next week – You
week (by need to read AGP ch.
Wednesday) you 9 and Nichols pp.
need to read AGP 152-160 (and do
chapter 8 your first blog entry
on this)

10. • First test (over AGP • First Blog Entry must
chs. 8-9) will be put be posted on
on Blackboard at the Blackboard no later
end of next week than Tuesday