Undergraduate Affairs
The Florida Civic Literacy Test includes additional questions which utilize material from the following sources.
Basic principles of the Federal Constitution and Civil Rights. Political parties and the electoral process. The structure and machinery of the federal government, including Congress, the president and the judiciary. General Education - Social Science.
Examine United States history from before European contact to 1877. Topics include but are not limited to indigenous peoples, the European background, the colonial period, the American Revolution, the Articles of Confederation, the Constitution, issues within the new Republic, sectionalism, manifest destiny, slavery, the American Civil War, and Reconstruction.
Surveys the emergence of modern America as an industrial and world power; the Progressive Era; WWI; the Great Depression and the New Deal; WW II; and the Cold War era. General Education.
Explore the concept of civil discourse along with the basic principles of American democracy and how they are applied in our republican form of government. Through a review of the US Constitution, founding documents, and landmark Supreme Court cases, understand how the nature and functions of our institutions of self-governance have been shaped. These lessons will then be applied to case studies.