Overview: American Government Canvas Modules and course organization
Canvas Modules
American Government – COURSE ORGANIZATION
This chapter gives an overview of the course and its basic organization based on Modules in the online learning platform Canvas. Below is a summary of each Module focused primarily on the DSJ aspects that are featured so you can see how and where they are incorporated into the American Government content. Each numbered module corresponds to the weeks of the quarter in sequence, e.g., Module 1 is for week 1, Module 2 is for week 2, etc. Other modules refer to major content that supplements the week-by-week instruction (e.g., Civics Module, Research Project Module).
Like most college courses offered these days, my course is a hybrid, with most content provided in the modules of the course’s Canvas shell. Therefore, students’ initial exposure to the course comes through the Canvas portal, regardless of whether the course is taught on campus or synchronously over Zoom or Microsoft Teams.
MODULES
The remaining chapters in this Pressbook cover the DSJ-related content from these modules:
Home (Front) Page – This page welcomes the students to the course, directs them to the other modules, and draws attention to its DSJ focus with a Land Acknowledgement.
Welcome to American Government Module
Module 0 – How to be successful in your classes[1]
Civics Module[2]
Research Project Module[3]
Module 1 – Getting started with American Government
Module 2 – American Political Culture and News Media
Module 3 – The Constitution and Founding; Federalism
Module 4 – Civil Rights
Module 5 – Civil Liberties
Module 6 – Congress and the Presidency
Module 7 – Bureaucracy and the Federal Courts
Module 8 – Voting, Political Parties and Elections
Module 9 – Public Opinion and Interest Groups
