Dr. Kris A. Beck

Dr. Kris A. Beck
Associate Professor of Political Science
Division of Business & Social Science

Office: Russell 311
Office Telephone Number: (678) 359-5032
Division Telephone Number: (678) 359-5194
FAX Number: (770) 358-5132

E-Mail: kbeck@gdn.edu | Send

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Advisement Worksheet for Political Science Majors

General Advisement Worksheet for Undeclared Majors

General Class Materials:

Making Arguments

Presentation Instructions

Fall 2009 Calendar

Fall 2009 Final Exam Schedule

American Government:

AG Presentation Topics 1101 D

AG Presentation Topics 1101 E

AG Presentation Topics 1101

AG Assignment 10

Quiz 10 will be activated Friday at 12:00 pm and last until Monday at 12:00 pm. It will be over chapter 5.

http://www.nsspress.com

Braunwarth Information

Citizen's Almanac - www.uscis.gov/files/nativedocuments/M-76.pdf

Global Issues:

GI Fall 2009 Syllabus

GI Lecture Notes

GI Presentation Topics

GI Assignment 10

http://www.un.org/en/

State and Local Government

http://sos.georgia.gov/elections/2003_constitution.pdf

Links:

General Political Information

http://www.usa.gov/ http://www.freestockfootage.com/new.html

http://www.politico.com/ http://www.bartleby.com/

http://www.politics1.com/ http://www.electoral-vote.com/

http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/index.html

http://www.cq.com/corp/corplogin.do

http://www.educationindex.com/poli_sci/

Institutions

President

http://www.whitehouse.gov/ http://www.ipl.org/ref/POTUS/

http://www.ibiblio.org/lia/president/pres-home.html http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/life/

http://www.americanrhetoric.com/newtop100speeches.htm

http://www.americanpresidents.org/presidents/yearschedule.asp

http://www.museum.tv/debateweb/html/index.htm

http://www.lib.msu.edu/vincent/presidents/index.htm

Congress

http://www.senate.gov/ http://www.house.gov/

http://www.congresslink.org/ http://corporate.cq.com/wmspage.cfm?parm1=12

http://www.congress.org/congressorg/home/ http://www.hillnews.com/

http://www.youtube.com/househub http://www.youtube.com/senatehub

http://xroads.virginia.edu/~CAP/cap_home.html http://www.congress.org/congressorg/home/

Supreme Court

http://www.supremecourtus.gov/ http://www.usscplus.com/

http://supct.law.cornell.edu/supct/justices/fullcourt.html http://thomas.loc.gov/

http://www.tourolaw.edu/patch/supremecourtcases.asp

Gideon v. Wainwright: Audio
http://www.oyez.org/oyez/resource/case/139/

Gitlow v. New York: Audio
http://www.oyez.org/oyez/resource/case/140/

Gregory v. Ashcroft
http://www.oyez.org/oyez/resource/case/671/

Griswold v. Connecticut: Audio
http://www.oyez.org/oyez/resource/case/149/

Lawrence v. Texas: Audio
http://www.oyez.org/oyez/resource/case/306/

Mapp v. Ohio: Audio
http://www.oyez.org/oyez/resource/case/223/

Marbury v. Madison

http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/conlaw/marbury.HTML

McCulloch v. Maryland

http://www.landmarkcases.org/mcculloch/pdf/mcculloch_v_maryland.pdf

Miranda v. Arizona: Audio
http://www.oyez.org/oyez/resource/case/251/

Planned Parenthood v. Casey: Audio
http://www.oyez.org/oyez/resource/case/306/

Printz v. United States
http://www.oyez.org/oyez/resource/case/835/

Roe v. Wade

http://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/historics/USSC_CR_0410_0113_ZS.html

United States v. Lopez
http://www.oyez.org/oyez/resource/case/642/

Wallace v. Jaffree: Oral Arguments
http://religiousfreedom.lib.virginia.edu/court/wall_v_jaff.html

Webster v. Reproductive Health Services: Audio
http://www.oyez.org/oyez/resource/case/436/

Foundations

http://www.constitution.org/constit_.htm

http://www.constitutioncenter.org/explore/FoundingDocuments/index.shtml

http://www.founding.com/ http://www.law.ou.edu/hist/

http://www.iep.utm.edu/ http://plato.stanford.edu/contents.html

http://www.ourdocuments.gov/content.php?flash=true&page=milestone

http://www.nccs.net/ http://www.nccs.net/constitution-week/const_at_a_glance.pdf

http://www.history.com/media.do http://www.fff.org/comment/com0405g.asp

http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speechbank.htm http://www.mediachannel.com/guides/politic.htm

http://www.constitution.org/ http://www.teacheroz.com/generalUS.htm

News Media Outlets

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/ http://www.nytimes.com/

http://www.washingtonpost.com/ http://www.cnn.com/

http://nationaljournal.com/ http://www.loc.gov/chroniclingamerica/

http://www.c-span.org/

Interest Groups

http://www.space.com/ http://www.nwf.org/

http://www.votesmart.org/ http://www.fairvote.org/

http://www.commoncause.org http://www.opensecrets.org/

http://www.adl.org/ http://www.splcenter.org/

Political Parties

http://www.rnc.org/ http://www.democrats.org

http://www.gp.org/index.php http://www.lp.org/

http://www.constitutionparty.com/ http://www.reformparty.org/

http://dir.yahoo.com/Government/U_S__Government/Politics/Parties/

http://www.house.gov/house/Contract/CONTRACT.html

Campaigns & Elections

http://www.fec.gov/ http://www.fec.gov/pages/bcra/bcra_update.shtml

http://livingroomcandidate.movingimage.us/ http://www.govexec.com/

http://fisher.lib.virginia.edu/collections/stats/elections/maps/ http://www.law.stanford.edu/publications/projects/campaignfinance/

http://www.tulane.edu/~latner/Background/BackgroundElection.html

http://www.techlearning.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=23903919

Bureaucracy

http://www.thecre.com/fedlaw/default.htm http://www.fedworld.gov/

http://www.gao.gov/ http://www.healthreform.gov/

http://www.nathannewman.org/nbs/ http://www.gpoaccess.gov/usbudget/

State Politics

http://www.loc.gov/rr/news/stategov/stategov.html http://www.statesnews.org/

http://www.statelocalgov.net/index.cfm http://www.youtube.com/user/SenatorIsakson

www.ga.gov

Environment

http://www.time.com/time/goinggreen?cnn=yes

Journals

http://inpress.lib.uiowa.edu/poroi/poroi/index.html

Political Science Associations

https://www.apsanet.org/ http://gpsa.mgc.edu/gpsa/

http://www.political-theory.org/ http://www.spsa.net/

http://www.psa.ac.uk/

http://lib.sdstate.edu/Lib11/subguide/polisciweb.htm

Various Political Websites

http://politicalhumor.about.com/library/blmultimedia.htm http://www.freedomfiles.org/movies/

http://matrix.msu.edu/resources/audio.html http://www.digital-librarian.com/audio.html

http://www.twin-towers.net/tt_video.htm

http://www.americanradioworks.org/features/remembering/index.html

http://www.cambridgeeducational.com/subject/1710/Social_Studies.aspx

http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/nsa/cuba_mis_cri/ http://www.hpol.org/

http://www.ssa.gov/history/history.html

http://americanhistory.si.edu/perfectunion/experience/index.html

http://www.earthstation1.com/Martin_Luther_King.html

http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/mlkihaveadream.htm

http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/1999/future/

http://www.csmonitor.com/specials/terrorism/frameset.html

http://www.propagandacritic.com/ http://www.pbs.org/wnet/jimcrow/stories_people.html

http://www.itvs.org/9.11/

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