MPSL Content
Incorporating MyPoliSciLab into Your CourseBelow is a guide to help match available MyPoliSciLab content to concepts and topics you teach. |
| Topic: | Suggested MPSL Assignments: |
| Campaigns | Comparative: Comparing Political Campaigns |
| Debate: Campaign Finance Regulations | |
| Simulation: You Are a Media Consultant to a Political Candidate | |
| Timeline: Television and Presidential Campaigns | |
| Timeline: Interest Groups and Campaign Finance | |
| Timeline: Nominating Process | |
| Visual Literacy: The Electoral College: Campaign Consequences and Mapping the Results | |
| Civil Liberties | Comparative: Comparing Civil Liberties |
| Debate: Privacy and Government Surveillance Powers | |
| Debate: Gun Rights and Gun Control | |
| Debate: School Vouchers | |
| Simulation: You Are a Police Officer | |
| Simulation: Balancing Liberty and Security in a Time of War | |
| Timeline: Civil Liberties and National Security | |
| Visual Literacy: Race and the Death Penalty | |
| Visual Literacy: What Speech is Protected by the Constitution? | |
| Civil Rights | Comparative: Comparing Civil Rights |
| Debate: Civil Rights and Gay Adoption | |
| Simulation: You Are the Mayor and Need to Make Civil Rights Decisions | |
| Timeline: The Struggle for Equal Protection | |
| Timeline: The Civil Rights Movement | |
| Timeline: The Mexican-American Civil Rights Movement | |
| Timeline: Women's Struggle for Equality | |
| Congress | Comparative: Comparing Legislatures |
| Participation: The Prepared Voter Kit | |
| Simulation: You Are an Informed Voter Helping Your Classmates Decide How to Vote | |
| Simulation: You Are a Member of Congress | |
| Simulation: How a Bill Becomes a Law | |
| Timeline: The Power of the Speaker of the House | |
| Visual Literacy: Why Is It So Hard to Defeat an Incumbent? | |
| Constitution | Comparative: Comparing Constitutions |
| Participation: You Draft the US Constitution | |
| Simulation: You Are Proposing a Constitutional Amendment | |
| Simulation: You Are James Madison | |
| Timeline: The History of Constitutional Amendments | |
| Visual Literacy: The American System of Checks and Balances | |
| Economic Policy | Comparative: Comparing Economic Policy |
| Debate: Farm Subsidies | |
| Simulation: You Are the President and Need to Get a Tax Cut Passed | |
| Simulation: You Are an Environmental Activist | |
| Simulation: Making Economic Policy | |
| Timeline: Growth of the Budget and Federal Spending | |
| Visual Literacy: Evaluating Federal Spending and Economic Policy | |
| Federal Bureaucracy | Comparative: Comparing Bureaucracies |
| Participation: Who Wants to Be a Bureaucrat? | |
| Simulation: You Are a Government Affairs Consultant in Texas | |
| Simulation: You Are a Federal Administrator | |
| Simulation: You Are the Head of FEMA | |
| Simulation: You Are the President of MEDICORP | |
| Simulation: You Are Deputy Director of the Census Bureau | |
| Timeline: The Evolution of the Federal Bureaucracy | |
| Visual Literacy: The Changing Face of the Federal Bureaucracy | |
| Federalism | Comparative: Comparing Federal and Unitary Systems |
| Debate: Federalism | |
| Simulation: You Are a Federal Judge | |
| Timeline: Federalism and the Supreme Court | |
| Visual Literacy: Federalism and Regulations | |
| Interest Groups | Comparative: Comparing Interest Groups |
| Simulation: You Are the Leader of Concerned Citizens for World Justice | |
| Simulation: You Are a Lobbyist | |
| Visual Literacy: Federal Election Rules, PACs, and the Money Trail | |
| Comparative: Comparing Political Landscapes | |
| Timeline: Major Technological Innovations that Have Changed the Political Landscape | |
| Visual Literacy: Using the Census to Understand Who Americans Are | |
| Introduction | Visual Literacy: What Are American Civic Values? |
| Judiciary | Comparative: Comparing Judiciaries |
| Comparative: Comparing Judicial Systems | |
| Simulation: You Are the President and Need to Nominate a Supreme Court Justice | |
| Simulation: You Are a Young Lawyer | |
| Simulation: You Are a Supreme Court Justice Deciding a Free Speech Case | |
| Simulation: You Are a Clerk to Supreme Court Justice Judith Gray | |
| Timeline: Chief Justices of the Supreme Court | |
| Visual Literacy: Case Overload | |
| Media | Comparative: Comparing News Media |
| Debate: Media Bias | |
| Simulation: You Are the News Editor | |
| Timeline: Three Hundred Years of American Mass Media | |
| Visual Literacy: Use of the Media by the American Public | |
| National Security Policy | Comparative: Comparing Foreign and Security Policy |
| Debate: Immigration | |
| Debate: Economic Sanctions and Cuba | |
| Participation: Choose a Policy Decision Regarding the US-Mexico Border | |
| Simulation: You Are President John F. Kennedy | |
| Simulation: You Are the President of the United States | |
| Simulation: You Are the Newly Appointed Ambassador to the Country of Dalmatia | |
| Timeline: The Evolving Demographic Makeup of Texas | |
| Timeline: The Evolution of Foreign Policy | |
| Visual Literacy: Evaluating Defense Spending | |
| Political Parties | Comparative: Comparing Political Parties |
| Participation: Deciding on a Political Party | |
| Simulation: You Are Redrawing the Districts in Your State | |
| Timeline: The Evolution of Political Parties in the United States | |
| Timeline: Third Parties in American History | |
| Visual Literacy: State Control and National Platforms | |
| Presidency | Comparative: Comparing Executive Branches |
| Comparative: Comparing Chief Executives | |
| Participation: Rate the Presidents | |
| Simulation: Presidential Leadership: Which Hat Do You Wear? | |
| Simulation: You Are a President During a Nuclear Power Plant Meltdown | |
| Timeline: The Executive Order Over Time | |
| Visual Literacy: Presidential Success in Polls and Congress | |
| Public Opinion | Comparative: Comparing Governments and Public Opinion |
| Debate: Are You a Liberal or a Conservative? | |
| Simulation: You Are a Polling Consultant | |
| Timeline: War, Peace, and Public Opinion | |
| Visual Literacy: Who Are Liberals and Conservatives? What's the Difference? | |
| Social Policy | Comparative: Comparing Social Welfare Systems |
| Debate: Welfare Reform | |
| Simulation: You Are a State Legislator | |
| Timeline: The Evolution of Social Welfare Policy | |
| Visual Literacy: Where the Money Goes… | |
| State & Local Government | Comparative: Comparing State and Local Governments |
| Participation: Explore Your Constitution | |
| Simulation: You Are the Director of Economic Development for the City of Los Angeles, California | |
| Simulation: You Are Attempting to Revise the Texas Constitution | |
| Simulation: You Are Attempting to Revise the California Constitution | |
| Simulation: You Are the Mayor and Need to Get a Town Budget Passed | |
| Simulation: You Are a Restaurant Owner | |
| Simulation: You Are a Governor | |
| Timeline: Initiatives and Referendums | |
| Visual Literacy: Explaining Differences in State Laws | |
| Voting & Elections | Comparative: Comparing Voting and Elections |
| Debate: Electoral College | |
| Participation: Democracy and the Internet | |
| Participation: 2000 Presidential Election | |
| Simulation: You Are a Campaign Manager: Navigating Negativity: Help Obama Handle Negative Attacks | |
| Simulation: You Are a Campaign Manager: Lead Obama to Battleground State Victory | |
| Simulation: You Are a Campaign Manager: Voter Mobilization and Suppression: Dirty Tricks or Fair Games? | |
| Simulation: You Are a Campaign Manager: McCain Navigates Campaign Financing: Rules and Trends | |
| Simulation: You Are a Campaign Manager: Seven Days to Victory: Obama's Last Minute Choices | |
| Simulation: You Are a Campaign Manager: McCain and the Swingers: Help McCain Win Swing States | |
| Simulation: You Are a Campaign Manager: Countdown to 270! Choose Your Candidate | |
| Timeline: Close Calls in Presidential Elections | |
| Timeline: Critical Congressional (Mid-Term) Elections | |
| Visual Literacy: Voting Turnout: Who Votes in The United States? |
