Slides for January 27th

I'll be lecturing with these slides today:

Syllabus for POLS 206-510 for Spring 2015

The syllabus for my 11:50-1:10 section of Introduction to American Politics is here.

Exam 2 Study Guide

Our second exam will be in class on Thursday. We will have a review session in class on Tuesday. The study guide is here.Please look over the guide carefully as the format of the exam will be somewhat different.

481 In Class Actvity

We'll be working with state-level presidential election data from 2008 today. You may download them here.

JayZ's 99 Problems and the 4th Amednment

A law professor at St. Louis University has turned JayZ's classic "99 Problems" into a great 4th Amednment teaching tool.

Here is the article.

Here is the abstract:

This is a line-by-line analysis of the second verse of 99 Problems by Jay-Z, from the perspective of a criminal procedure professor. It’s intended as a resource for law students and teachers, and for anyone who’s interested in what pop culture gets right about criminal justice, and what it gets wrong.

The whole things is great. Enjoy.

Model Exam Answers

Here is a set of model exam answers for POLS 353's first exam.

Pols 353 Exam Preparation

The study guide is here.

A model exam answer from an prior section of this class is here.

A law professor at Columbia University has posted a series of old constitutional law exams and model answers here.

Also, don't forget, we will have our review session in class on Tuesday.