政治学暑期课程

course description

This course is an introduction to politics in the United States of America. Politics is the process through which people engage in collective action. Understanding politics requires understanding why people engage in collective action to begin with, how they do so, and what the consequences are. In particular it will be important to understand how they create and sustain evolving institutions that organize this collective action, and how these institutions work.

 

The purpose of this course is to provide students with basic facts about American politics, some explanation of the logic of American politics and an introduction to how social scientists learn about the world. Along the way we will engage with numerous examples from political history and current American politics.

 

Learning Objectives:

- Students will learn about the fundamental institutions and features of American politics, and will be able to situate this knowledge in American political history.

- Students will learn how political scientists advance knowledge about politics, with a special emphasis on the methods and models used most prominently to study American politics. This includes basic data analysis and formal logic.

- Students will learn to engage critically with claims that people make about politics. They will learn to be particularly suspicious of claims that appeal to them for non-evidentiary reasons.

- Students will learn the fundamentals of making clear arguments and evaluating arguments with evidence.

 

Students will leave the program with a strong understanding of American Politics, five units of pass/no pass college credit to use towards their Bachelor/High School degrees, mentors in the grad and undergraduate levels, and an idea of how far-reaching political thought/influence is in our society.

课程介绍

本课程旨在介绍美国政治。政治是人们参与集体行动的过程。想要理解政治，我们首先需要理解人类为什么一开始就采取集体行动，集体行动如何执行，集体行动的后果哪些。另外，我们需要了解人类如何创建和维持组织这一集体行动的不断发展的机构，以及这些机构是如何运作的。

 

本课程目的是为学生提供有关美国政治的基础事实，解释美国政治的逻辑，并介绍社会科学家如何了解世界，还从政治历史和当前美国政治中取大量的例子。

 

本课程目标：

- 让学生了解美国政治的基础制度和特点，并能够使用这些知识去分析美国政治史。

- 让学生了解政治科学家如何推进政治知识，并强调研究美国政治最重要的方法和模型，包括基础数据分析和形式逻辑。

- 让学生学会批判性地思考人类对政治的看法，学会质疑无证据的主张。

- 让学生了解阐明论点和用证据评估论点的基本原理。

 

本课程的优势：

- 本课程结束以后，学生将对美国政治有深刻的了解；

- 获得大学学分，可用于他们的学士/高中学位；

- 认识研究生和本科生级别的导师；

- 了解政治对我们社会的深远影响。

课程时间：6月21日--7月8日

入学资格：

- 在线申请

- 托福80以上（Duolinguo 105)

- 申请开放日：2月15日