The theme for Spring 2008 Engaged Citizen Experience is "Voices of Democracy: Dissent and Dialogue."
For a growing list of curricular and co-curricular events, please Click Here (Word document) or watch for announcements on the BlueView tabs.

 

Please remember that all engaged citizen courses were to have been resubmitted to the University Curriculum Committee for re-approval consideration, spring (2007). All other courses for first-time AOI consideration must always be submitted to the UCC.  Click Here (Word document) or see below for the template for AOI submission to the University Curriculum Committee (UCC).


The Engaged Citizen AOI

Drake students will learn to participate effectively in democratic processes.  Democracy relies upon the participation of an engaged, knowledgeable and responsible citizenry. As preparation for active participation in public debate, Drake students learn to evaluate the mix of diverse values and interests that influence democratic decision-making. In a sophomore level course, students have the opportunity to bring diverse disciplines to bear in further developing the skills, knowledge, and dispositions that will lead them to be active stewards working for the common good of local, national and global communities.  This requirement will be fulfilled through coursework that challenges students to critically reflect upon the social, economic or political institutions and issues that shape the choices they will face as citizens. Instructors will provide students with opportunities to model democratic practices or public engagement through participatory activities organized in the classroom and/or community.  Engaged Citizen courses require sophomore standing (students must have 30 or more credit hours). This change is effective fall 2007.

In order to take an Engaged Citizen AOI course, students must have 30 or more credit hours (sophomore standing).

Approved Course List (effective August 2007):

BIO 145 Disease, Dialogue, and Democracy
BUS 067/HIST 067 Sustainable Development in Sub-Saharan Africa
EDUC 140 Speech and the Classroom Teacher
EDUC 185 Ethical Tensions in Global Urbanization
ENG 083 English in America: Language, the Citizen, & National Identity
ENSP 051/PHSC 051 Energy and the Environment
ENSP 055 Tropical Ecology
LPS 100 Law and Social Change
HIST 170 The United States and Vietnam, 1945-1975: War, Dissent, and American Society
HIST 170 Slavery and Emancipation in the American Past and Present
INTD 085 Developing Democracy: Critical Issues in Creating Democratic Engagement
JMC 066 Media Responsibility Over Time
JMC 135 Public Relations Principles
LPS 135 Contemporary American Indian Law and Politics
LPS 138 Reproductive Law and Politics in the United States, Dissent and the Possibility of Dialogue
POLS 051 U.S. Presidential Elections:
What to Expect When You are Electing
POLS 109 Topics in International Relations
POLS 112 Women in Politics
POLS 113 The American Electoral Process
POLS 114 Public Opinion
POLS 115 President Nomination Process
POLS 116 Media and Modern Politics
POLS 119 Topics in American Government and Politics
POLS 121 The United Nations and Global Security
POLS 124 Revisiting the Vietnam War
POLS 125 Peacebuilding and Post-Conflict Justice
POLS 126 Grassroots Globalism
POLS 127 Global Public Health and World
Politics
POLS 128 Nationalism and Politics in Eastern Europe
POLS 129 Transitions to Democracy

      

POLS 151 The American Presidency
POLS 152 Congress and the Legislative Process
POLS 153 Judicial Politics
POLS 155 American Public Policy
POLS 156 Environmental Politics and Policy
POLS 157 Crime Politics and Policy in the US
POLS 160 Modern European Political Systems
POLS 162 Contemporary Asian Politics
POLS 164 Government & Politics in Latin America
POLS 165 Government & Politics of Developing Nations
POLS 166 Comparative Political Parties and Interest Groups
POLS 167 Supreme Courts and Elections
POLS 168 Politics and Parliaments
POLS 170 International Law
POLS 171 Political Integration of Europe
POLS 173 Human Rights and World Politics
POLS 176 Gender and World Politics
POLS 179 American Foreign Policy
POLS 185 American Political Theory
POLS 186 Politics and Religion
POLS 189 Topics in Political Theory
POLS 190 Seminar in Constitutional Law
PSY 134 Ethnopolitical Conflict and Peacemaking
REL 120 Black Christianity and Prophetic Politics
SCSR 134 Argument Culture
SCSR 142 Rhetoric and Politics
SCSS 074 Debating Marriage in the Contemporary U.S.
SCSS 077 Art of the Interview
SCSS 080 Social Problems
SCSS 175 Social Stratification
STAT 198 Using Statistics to Shape Health Policy
WS 075/ENG 075/SCSS 075 Introduction to Women's Studies