Course Outline (Tentative – subject to change):

1. Orientation/Introduction

2. Media Landscape

3. Foreign Policy

4. U.S. Economy Under Donald Trump

5. Class in the United States

6. Racial Relations: BlackLivesMatter, Police Violence, Incarceration, War Against Drugs

7. 2020 Elections

8. Gun Rights: Major legislation, 2nd rights amendment debates, lobbying.

9. HealthCare/ ObamaCare

Meaning of the Patient Protection and Affordable Healthcare Act

10. Policy of Homeland Security

Defending the U.S. from the inside, U.S. and terrorism, domestic terrorism, terrorism v. hate crimes.

+ other topics of interest