Civics and Debate
Understand institutions, evaluate public claims, and build fair evidence-based arguments.
- Explain the roles of major civic institutions
- Separate claims, evidence, assumptions, and values
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Civics, law, policy, rights, institutions, and community participation. Choose a topic, understand the learning outcomes, and start a focused conversation with a matched pal.
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Legal Literacy
Build practical understanding of legal systems, rights, responsibilities, procedures, documents, and reliable sources, then use it for understanding common legal information while recognizing when professional advice is needed.
- Explain the main ideas and vocabulary involved in legal systems, rights, responsibilities, procedures, documents, and reliable sources
- Follow a repeatable process for understanding common legal information while recognizing when professional advice is needed
Consumer Scam Awareness
Build practical understanding of impersonation, pressure tactics, source verification, payment risk, evidence, reporting, and consumer-protection processes, then use it for recognizing suspicious claims and responding without exposing money or personal information.
- Explain the main ideas and vocabulary involved in impersonation, pressure tactics, source verification, payment risk, evidence, reporting, and consumer-protection processes
- Follow a repeatable process for recognizing suspicious claims and responding without exposing money or personal information
Constitutional Law Foundations
Build practical understanding of constitutions, separation of powers, rights, courts, and institutional limits, then use it for reading constitutional questions and comparing legal reasoning.
- Explain the main ideas and vocabulary involved in constitutions, separation of powers, rights, courts, and institutional limits
- Follow a repeatable process for reading constitutional questions and comparing legal reasoning
International Relations
Build practical understanding of states, power, cooperation, conflict, institutions, and global political economy, then use it for analyzing international events through competing theories and evidence.
- Explain the main ideas and vocabulary involved in states, power, cooperation, conflict, institutions, and global political economy
- Follow a repeatable process for analyzing international events through competing theories and evidence
Public Policy
Build practical understanding of problem definition, stakeholders, policy tools, implementation, evidence, and evaluation, then use it for comparing policy choices and tracing their likely tradeoffs.
- Explain the main ideas and vocabulary involved in problem definition, stakeholders, policy tools, implementation, evidence, and evaluation
- Follow a repeatable process for comparing policy choices and tracing their likely tradeoffs
Human Rights
Build practical understanding of rights frameworks, institutions, historical struggles, competing claims, and accountability, then use it for examining human-rights cases with legal and ethical context.
- Explain the main ideas and vocabulary involved in rights frameworks, institutions, historical struggles, competing claims, and accountability
- Follow a repeatable process for examining human-rights cases with legal and ethical context
Criminal Justice
Build practical understanding of policing, courts, corrections, evidence, procedure, and reform debates, then use it for understanding justice-system processes and evaluating policy claims.
- Explain the main ideas and vocabulary involved in policing, courts, corrections, evidence, procedure, and reform debates
- Follow a repeatable process for understanding justice-system processes and evaluating policy claims
Environmental Law Foundations
Build practical understanding of regulation, standards, permits, liability, treaties, and environmental justice, then use it for reading environmental disputes and comparing governance approaches.
- Explain the main ideas and vocabulary involved in regulation, standards, permits, liability, treaties, and environmental justice
- Follow a repeatable process for reading environmental disputes and comparing governance approaches
Media Law and Digital Rights
Build practical understanding of speech, privacy, copyright, defamation, platforms, and digital rights, then use it for recognizing legal questions in publishing and online communication.
- Explain the main ideas and vocabulary involved in speech, privacy, copyright, defamation, platforms, and digital rights
- Follow a repeatable process for recognizing legal questions in publishing and online communication
Community Organizing
Build practical understanding of listening, issue mapping, coalitions, outreach, meetings, and collective action, then use it for turning a shared concern into an inclusive community plan.
- Explain the main ideas and vocabulary involved in listening, issue mapping, coalitions, outreach, meetings, and collective action
- Follow a repeatable process for turning a shared concern into an inclusive community plan
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