CCP 66 - Civics - Open Doors

1 Credits
This course serves students in the Open Doors Youth Re-engagement program. This 1.0 credit course teaches students about the power their own voice can carry when advocating in tribal, local, state, and federal government. It also covers the schematics of the constitution, the branches of government, and the reasons for their origins both negative and positive. It imparts students to participate in carrying out their rights as people living in the United States.

Course Outcomes

Communicate respectfully with people of varied backgrounds, cultures, ages, genders, races, creeds, religions, sexual orientations, abilities and world views.
Develop cultural competence, including awareness and sensitivity to diversity, and the effects of historical systems of discrimination and oppression.
Demonstrate knowledge of governmental organizations and institutions.
Interpret a variety of perspectives from/about the past using primary and secondary sources.
Interpret and analyze visual and quantitative concepts.
Demonstrate knowledge and ability in the fields of social science, geography, and anthropology, particularly the origins of U.S. government.
Use technology to research, synthesize, and evaluate multiple sources of information presented in diverse formats and media in order to address a question.