COURSE ID: SS103972
AP United States Government and Politics
This course will survey the complex subjects of the United States government and politics. The student will analyze, in some detail, the processes and institutions (both formal and informal) through which the political system functions and policy decisions are made. This analysis will include the constitutional structure of government, participatory politics, the formal institutions of power, the extra constitutional influences on those institutions, public policy, and individual rights and liberties.