Far too often in our history, Americans have taken their citizenship rights and responsibilities for granted. As U.S. citizens, you have a choice…to make the most of your rights and responsibilities or… leave others to decide for you.

Civic apathy now has well-documented consequences, many resulting in unexpected, disappointing, and often dangerous outcomes to our democratic form of government. This class seeks to explore these historical events going back to the Civil Rights movement but with a focus on current events including: new changes to state voter ID requirements and its potential effect on elections, rapidly changing immigration enforcement policies and its effects on our economy, a growing distrust of our government institutions, a lack of basic civics and government education in our public schools in favor of prioritizing STEM programs, and many more.

The class will also feature visual case studies as well as proposed workable solutions to further explain and clarify how unexpected consequences of civic apathy can and will affect us all.

This course will combine lecture with class discussions.