Justin M. Boucher
The Advanced Placement program is grounded in teacher autonomy in curriculum design. As a result, the city of New Haven has not adopted a curriculum or requirements for AP U.S. Government and Politics courses. Thus this appendix will discuss the ways in which this unit meets the content requirements set forth by the College Board for AP Government courses.
This unit specifically addresses the content on government policy as well as the units on Congress, the Presidency, and the Bureaucracy. It meets the requirements that units on government policy include the process by which policy is created as well as exploring various specific historical examples of policy creation. Additionally, this unit touches on the required content on the process by which laws are made and overseen. Furthermore, this unit offers students skills that will better prepare them to write the essays on the AP Government exam.
Beyond the requirements of the AP Government course, this unit addresses the need for instruction in the social history of the U.S. Specifically, this unit prepares students in regular government or history classes to learn psychological content even though the unit itself does not appear in courses set out by the New Haven Public Schools.
