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Contact Information
American Heritage Office 166 SWKT 422-6076 Hours: 9am-5pm M-F americanheritage@byu.edu www.americanheritage.byu.edu Professor Patterson 1134 SWKT Email: kelly_patterson@byu.edu Office Hours: Mondays 2-4 or by appointment
American Heritage Review Room 173A SWKT Hours: 9am-4pm M-F

American Heritage sections cannot be added with an add/drop card. All enrollment in the class must be done via
Route Y. Add/Drop deadline is Monday, September 12th by 5:00 pm

Texts for the class are as follows: City Upon A Hill Packet reading
International Sections Available: Sections 44, 45, 46 Must rain check first Once cleared, an e-mail will be sent to you to add the class Labs begin this week. Check Route Y for your scheduled lab (Thursday or Friday). Must attend the lab you are registered for! Essay #1 due Thursday, September 8th or Friday, September 9th

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Monday, August 29, 2011

* Dispel major myths about American Heritage * Introductions * Highlight course resources. * Discuss broad outlines of requirements and
Course Policies.

* Emphasize importance of subject matter for

intellectual and spiritual growth.

Which one of the following statements about American

Heritage expresses your most significant fear about the class?

A. B. C. D. E.

AH is a difficult class.

AH only teaches conservative ideas.

AH is too big for me to learn anything. AH is boring.

I have no fears about AH.

Which one of the following statements about American

Heritage expresses your most significant fear about the class?

A. B. C. D. E.

AH is a difficult class.

AH only teaches conservative ideas.

AH is too big for me to learn anything. AH is boring.

I have no fears about AH.

* Your TA is one of the most important

resources you have!

* See the course website to find out more

about your assigned TA

* American Heritage 100 Course Packet

Karpowitz-Patterson (only available at the BYU Bookstore) City Upon a Hill: The Legacy of Americas Founding.

* Fox, Frank W. and Clayne L. Pope. 2010.

* iClicker

* http://iclicker.com/registration

* How many are from outside of Utah? * How many are converts to the Church? * How many are the first in your family to attend
college?
BYU?

* How many are the first in your family to attend * How many were born here while your parents
were still attending BYU? Procrastinators? Seniors?

* How many are freshmen? Sophomores? Juniors?

* Quizzes * Film * 4 Essays * Participation in lecture and lab * Two midterm examinations * Comprehensive final examination

* Your first essay assignment:

* Due next week in labs! (September 8th and
9th)

* Details of the assignment are available on the

course website.

* Lectures * Labs * Review Room

* Labs begin this week!

* Complete readings prior to class lecture

* Attend the lectures and lab to which you

are assigned.

* Bring iClickers to lecture.

They will be used to record your attendance and participation.

* Dont need iClickers in lab.

* There are no correct opinions about politics

or public policy.

* There are, however, more or less thoughtful

political opinions.

* Please be thoughtful! * All different political perspectives are

welcome.

*Everyone and everyones opinions are *Knowing how to disagree well is an *Disagreement is not necessarily a
sign of dysfunction.
together.

to be treated with respect and civility. important civic skill. This skill must be learned.

*Remember that were all in this

* CLIP

* The United States and its government officials

should be treated with respect, but not with unexamined acceptance.

* How do we treat the American founders? * A bunch of hypocritical, pompous, slaveholding aristocrats?

* Demigods above any analysis and criticism? * Try to avoid both extremes, neither of
which will allow us to understand our constitutional system clearly.

* Please do not distract yourself or others

during the lecture or lab.

* For tasks that are at all complicated, no

matter how good you have become at multitasking, you're still going to suffer hits against your performance. You will be worse compared to if you were actually concentrating from start to finish on the task.

- David Meyer, University of Michigan

* This is a serious course dealing with serious

issues, but that does not mean we cannot have fun.

* You will work very hard in this course, but if

you dont have at least a little fun, youre not doing it right.

*Three Parts: *Founding Principles *The Birth (and Rebirth) of the

Constitution

*Constitutional Development and Change

*The Meaning of Citizenship *Not simply a history course or a political

science course or an economics course

* Founding: a conscious, deliberate act of creating a

system of government. * Foundings do not occur very often

* Who should rule? * What is a citizen? * How much power should government have? * How much (and what kind) of liberty should citizens
have? * What values should a government foster?

* Foundings ask us to reflect on fundamental questions

* But what are our ongoing responsibilities?

*We the people of the United

States, in order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty, to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.

* The United States has an important role to play in world

history.

* What is that role?

* Protection of rights * Environment in which the restoration of the gospel could

occur.

* Religious liberty is a precondition for engaging in the activities

that we cherish.

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*Importance of American Heritage for helping
you understand the political, cultural, and economic world surrounding you.
* This environment shapes every significant choice you make. * You can run from American Heritage, but you cannot hide.

*Wednesday, Read Chapter 1 in City on a Hill