assignment 15 test the citizen and his government

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Unit 4: Citizenship

About this unit.

What does it mean to be a good citizen? What does it mean, in fact, to be a citizen at all? Let's get into a little moral philosophy and talk about what we owe to one another.

What does it mean to be a citizen?

• What is citizenship? (Opens a modal)
• Civil society (Opens a modal)
• Civic life, private life, politics, and government (Opens a modal)
• What does it mean to be a good citizen: level 1 Get 5 of 7 questions to level up!
• What does it mean to be a good citizen: level 2 Get 5 of 7 questions to level up!

What are the rights and responsibilities of citizenship?

• Personal rights (Opens a modal)
• Political rights (Opens a modal)
• Economic rights of citizenship (Opens a modal)
• Responsibilities of citizenship (Opens a modal)
• Obligations of citizenship (Opens a modal)
• Why do some citizens have to register for the draft? (Opens a modal)
• The rights and responsibilities of citizenship: level 1 Get 5 of 7 questions to level up!
• The rights and responsibilities of citizenship: level 2 Get 5 of 7 questions to level up!

How has the definition of citizenship changed over time?

• Citizenship in early America, 1789-1830s (Opens a modal)
• Citizenship in early America, 1840s-1870s (Opens a modal)
• The Dred Scott case and citizenship (Opens a modal)
• The 19th Amendment and citizenship (Opens a modal)
• Citizenship in the US territories and District of Columbia (Opens a modal)
• Citizenship and voting rights of indigenous people (Opens a modal)
• How has citizenship changed over time: level 1 Get 5 of 7 questions to level up!
• How has citizenship changed over time: level 2 Get 5 of 7 questions to level up!

What is the difference between citizens and non-citizens?

• What is dual nationality? (Opens a modal)
• Refugees in the United States (Opens a modal)
• The DREAM Act and DACA (Opens a modal)
• What is the difference between citizens and non-citizens: level 1 Get 5 of 7 questions to level up!
• What is the difference between citizens and non-citizens: level 2 Get 5 of 7 questions to level up!

What is the pathway to citizenship?

• The naturalization process (Opens a modal)
• Who is eligible for naturalization? (Opens a modal)
• Challenges of naturalization (Opens a modal)
• What is the pathway to citizenship: level 1 Get 5 of 7 questions to level up!
• What is the pathway to citizenship: level 2 Get 5 of 7 questions to level up!

How can someone lose their citizenship?

• Felony incarceration and citizenship (Opens a modal)

How can citizens change a democracy?

• Civic engagement (Opens a modal)
• Models of citizenship (Opens a modal)
• Service in the United States (Opens a modal)

15.1 Bureaucracy and the Evolution of Public Administration

During the post-Jacksonian era of the nineteenth century, the common charge against the bureaucracy was that it was overly political and corrupt. This changed in the 1880s as the United States began to create a modern civil service. The civil service grew once again in Franklin D. Roosevelt’s administration as he expanded government programs to combat the effects of the Great Depression. The most recent criticisms of the federal bureaucracy, notably under Ronald Reagan, emerged following the second great expansion of the federal government under Lyndon B Johnson in the 1960s.

15.2 Toward a Merit-Based Civil Service

The merit-based system of filling jobs in the government bureaucracy elevates ability and accountability over political loyalties. Unfortunately, this system also has its downsides. The most common complaint is that the bureaucrats are no longer as responsive to elected public officials as they once had been. This, however, may be a necessary tradeoff for the level of efficiency and specialization necessary in the modern world.

15.3 Understanding Bureaucracies and their Types

To understand why some bureaucracies act the way they do, sociologists have developed a handful of models. With the exception of the ideal bureaucracy described by Max Weber, these models see bureaucracies as self-serving. Harnessing self-serving instincts to make the bureaucracy work the way it was intended is a constant task for elected officials. One of the ways elected officials have tried to grapple with this problem is by designing different types of bureaucracies with different functions. These types include cabinet departments, independent regulatory agencies, independent executive agencies, and government corporations.

15.4 Controlling the Bureaucracy

To reduce the intra-institutional disagreements the traditional rulemaking process seemed to bring, the negotiated rulemaking process was designed to encourage consensus. Both Congress and the president exercise direct oversight over the bureaucracy by holding hearings, making appointments, and setting budget allowances. Citizens exercise their oversight powers through their use of the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) and by voting. Finally, bureaucrats also exercise oversight over their own institutions by using the channels carved out for whistleblowers to call attention to bureaucratic abuses.

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Unit 2 Test: Foundations of American Gov...

Unit 2 Test: Foundations of American Government

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Written by Thomas Jefferson and led to separation of church and state and served as a model for the 1st Amendment.

English Bill of Rights

Social Contract

Virginia Statue of Religious Freedom

Document signed by Charles I of England that further limited the powers of the English monarch.

Natural Laws

Petition of Right

Checks and Balances

Enlightenment-era work by Thomas Hobbes in which he expresses his ideas on government.

Virginia Declaration of Rights

An agreement by which people give up some freedoms for an organized society.

Document written by George Mason and served as a model/example for the U.S. Bill of Rights.

The rights of “life, liberty, and property” that John Locke argued for.

Montesquieu's plan of a separation of government to keep the government from getting too powerful in one branch.

Document signed in 1689 that guaranteed the rights of English citizens.

In Ancient Greece, Athens had the first ___ which greatly influenced the US government.

Dictatorship

Ancient Rome set up a ___ where citizens elected representatives to the Senate to rule.

According to John Locke, which rights were guaranteed by natural law?

Trial by jury and no cruel punishments

Freedom of speech and the press

Life, Liberty, and property

Freedom of worship and the right to petition

Who wrote The Social Contract about the agreement between the people and the government in which people gave up some freedom in order to have their rights protected?

Baron de Montesquieu

Jean Jacques Rousseau

Thomas Hobbes

Which enlightenment thinker believed that a strong government is needed to keep order?

The Pilgrims created the Mayflower Compact in order to

show they opposed representative government

establish and orderly community

reinforce the laws of England in the new colony

guarantee universal religious tolerance in the colony

What did citizens of Athens and the Pilgrims have in common?

Both created a direct democracy

Both were persecuted for their religious beliefs

Both traveled to a new country

Both started a new holiday that we still celebrate today

What pamphlet convinced many American colonists to support independence from Great Britain.

Magna Carta

Common Sense

Declaration of Independence

Who was the main author of the Declaration of Independence?

Benjamin Franklin

Thomas Jefferson

George Mason

According to the Declaration of Independence, what truth was “self-evident”?

All men are created equal

Rights are given by good kings

Government exists to protect us from ourselves

Only a democracy can protect our rights

The belief expressed in the Declaration of Independence that “just powers are derived from the consent of the government” is best described as:

Natural Rights

Popular Sovereignty

Social Contract Theory

Individual Rights/Liberties

John Locke’s believed that the government gets its right to govern from the people. This principle is included in the Declaration of Independence and can be considered

Majority Rule

Equal Protection

Consent of the Governed

Which of the Fundamental Principals of American Democracy do you feel is most essential to society? Explain.

Choose ONE:

Dignity of the Individual

One of the most important aspects of American democracy is the fundamental worth and dignity of the

individual: All persons are entitled to life, liberty, and due process under the law.

All persons in America are entitled to equal rights and treatment under the law.

Citizenship

Citizenship is the common thread that connects all Americans, recognized by two principles: 1) A

person receives American citizenship by virtue of being born in the United States; 2) Citizenship also

goes to those born to at least one United States citizen anywhere in the world.

Pathways to Citizenship for Noncitizens

All persons not meeting the principles of citizenship may become a United States citizen through the

naturalization process. The naturalization process is the way that a person not born in the United States

voluntarily becomes a United States citizen.

The will of the majority in America as expressed through elections is fundamental to the American

Minority rights

The Constitution of the United States protects the rights of the few from oppression.

The structure of the United States government necessitates compromise by all sides.

Individual freedom

All persons in America are born free, equal, and independent.

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Information for new graduate students in actuarial science, data science and statistics at the university of iowa..

Welcome New Graduate Students!

Information for NEW graduate students in Actuarial Science, Data Science and Statistics at the University of Iowa. 

Last Updated, May 31, 2024.                                   Additional  updates will be sent this summer!

Important Information for International Students

The Office of International Students and Scholars does an incredible job helping you settle into Iowa City and the University of Iowa.  They have webinars to help with:  

1. Getting Started and Making Travel Arrangements

2. Achieving Success: On-campus Involvement and Cultural Adjustment (undergraduate students)

3. Graduate Student Professionalization and Support

4. Understanding Orientation Expectations, Responsibilities, and Placement Tests (graduate students)

5. On-campus Housing Assignments and Move-in Tips (undergraduate students)

6. Student Employment

7. Money Matters - University Billing

Do you need to take the SPEC (Spoken Proficiency of English for the Classroom)?

All students for whom English is not a first language (as self-reported on their admissions application) and who have first-time appointments as graduate teaching assistants (TAs) are required to go through a testing process to assess their effectiveness in speaking English before they are assigned assistantship responsibilities. Beginning in Fall 2024, there will be a new test to assess communication in English in a classroom context called SPEC (Spoken Proficiency of English in the Classroom).  This is replacing ESPA and ELPT.  Details will be coming soon.

Any graduate student who is included in the following categories needs to have their oral English proficiency tested by the TAPE Program:

• Students whose first language is not English (i.e., learned another language first) as self-reported on their admissions application, and
• Have been appointed as a Teaching Assistant

Exemptions (may change):

• Students with an official valid (within the last two years) iBT Listening score of 25 and an iBT Speaking score of 26.
• Undergraduate degrees and/or     
• Continuous attendance of English-language schools since the age of 12 (or younger)
• Students who served as teaching assistants at other institutions of higher learning in which the language of instruction is English, if they were listed as the instructor of record for a course or led a discussion section in English for at least one year, with a year defined as either two academic semesters or three academic quarters.
• Requests for exceptions regarding the SPEC  can be submitted for evaluation to a committee consisting of the Director of ESL Programs, the Associate Dean for Administrative Affairs in the Graduate College, and a representative from University Human Resources.

Requests for exemption and exceptions must come from the department by the deadline, not the student.   Deadlines to register students for the SPEC are:

• March 1  

NOT Exemptions:

• Students who come from a country where English is one of the official languages.
• Students who are U.S. permanent residents or U.S. citizens whose first language is not English.

Testing Procedures & Results

 To be announced soon!

Graduate/Professional International Students Important Dates

July 12, 2024:  Earliest date you may enter the U.S. in F-1 or J-1 status. August 11, 2024:  Latest date by which you should arrive in Iowa City August 12 - 16, 2024: International Student Orientation August 26, 2024:  Classes begin.

Housing Information for All Students

The department has a housing webpage, please let us know if you have any questions or concerns. If you are looking for a roommate, please let us know and we can update this web page!

Looking for housing options ?

All US citizens that are financially supported (TA, RA) need to be here on August 21.

All students will register for classes the week before classes start.  International students must complete the required Orientation Program before  they can register for classes.    

____________________

Fall Classes Advising will be August 19-23

All NEW UI students must meet with their advisor prior to registration.  There is no worry about getting into any of the classes we teach.  

• IF you are an Actuarial Science MS or PhD student you will need to meet with Professor Shyamalkumar.  Email him after August 12 at [email protected] to set a time to meet to discuss what classes to take, it may be on Zoom or in his office (233 Schaeffer Hall).
• IF you are a Data Science MS, Statistics MS, or PhD student you will need to meet with Professor Boxiang Wang.  Email him after August 12 at [email protected]  to set a time to meet to discuss what classes to take, it may be on Zoom or in his office (261 Schaeffer Hall).

New Graduate College Welcome and Orientation, August 21

The Graduate College Fall 2024 Graduate Student Orientation event will take place on Wednesday, August 21, 2024.  A registration form will be sent to your UI email sometime this early summer from the Graduate College. All new doctoral and master’s students are invited to attend.  

New Teaching Assistant Orientation, August 22- required for all new supported students

Sponsored by the Center for Teaching

This event will introduce participants to the role of teaching assistant at the University of Iowa and prepare them for the first week of classes and beyond. 

Participants will discuss evidence-based teaching strategies for lesson planning, inclusive teaching, and more with Center for Teaching staff. Participants will also choose two workshops of interest to them out of several options; these will be facilitated synchronously by experienced TAs.  This is a virtual event for 9-noon.

• Sign up before August 21!

New Student Department Orientation, August 23 at 9 a.m., Room to be determined.

• All New Student Orientation —Group Introductions and General Policy Procedures.

New Supported Graduate Assistants Orientation, August 23 at 1 p.m., Room to be determined.

• Our Director of Graduate Studies will have a department review of expectations and your specific roles in our department. Teaching and grading assignments will be explained, as well as preparation, teaching tips, problems and questions, quizzes and exams, weekly meetings, grading, appropriate office use and the Sexual Harassment Prevention Education

Mailbox in 241 Schaeffer Hall 

All graduate students will have a mailbox in our main office.  The faculty do as well.  Please check your mailbox at least once a week!

Office Desk Assignment

Nearly all supported students will have a desk in one of our offices.  The assignment priority (in this order) includes Ph.D. and Fellowship candidates, research assistants, half-time teaching assistants, quarter-time teaching assistants and lastly graders.  Having a desk is a privilege and should be used only for university business.  Office assignments will be given to students on, August 23.  Keys are checked out ONLY after that time.  Please remember to keep the rooms clean and take out all trash to the large bins in the main hallways.

Set-up your University of Iowa Email

All University of Iowa students are required to activate their assigned uiowa.edu email address, as all official communication from university offices are now sent via email, rather than hard copy. This address usually follows the pattern [email protected]   (However, often a number is also attached.) 

To activate the account:

• Log on to  MyUI
• Click on My UIowa / My Email / Request Email Account
• Complete the specified steps.

Students who prefer to maintain only their work or home email addresses can do so by routing the uiowa.edu email to a work or home account. To do so, follow these steps:

• Click on My UIowa / My Email / Update Email Routing Address

Important Notes:

• If your uiowa.edu email address is routed to a different account, you will  not  need to change your address in ICON, as your messages will already forward to your routed address.
• Log on to MYUI.
• Click on My UIowa / My Email / Email Account Filter bulk mail.
• Make sure that none of the categories are checked.

Required Graduate Assistants Teaching Courses:

• ONLINE CLASS Requirement: Sexual Harassment Prevention Edu.  Use your HawkID and password to log into Employee Self Service. Click the Personal tab, next (under Learning and Development) click on Sexual Harassment Prevention Edu., follow instructions.
• ONLINE CLASS Requirement:  Federal Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA), Use your HawkID and password to log into Employee Self Service. Click the Personal tab, next (under Learning and Development) next click on Available Online Icon Courses, next FERPA Training, then click on View Details twice and the last click will be to Enroll in this ICON Course Session.
• A six-hour orientation program will be required of all students who are certified at level A or B and are teaching for the first time.  This orientation helps new teaching assistants understand the culture of the U.S. classroom and treats topics such as student expectations, teacher-student relationships, and understanding and answering student questions. Discussion focuses on suggestions for maximizing comprehensibility in spoken English. This course meets twice for 3 hours early in the semester. Both meetings are held in the evening.

Administrative Department Staff:

Professor aixin tan (until july 1, 2024).

Director of Graduate Studies, Statistics and Data Science Graduate Advisor: [email protected]   (319) 335-0821.

Professor Boxiang Wang (beginning July 1, 2024)

Director of Graduate Studies, Statistics and Data Science Graduate Advisor: [email protected] (319) 335-2294.

Professor N.D. Shyamalkumar

Actuarial Science Graduate Advisor:  [email protected]    (319) 335-1980

Margie Ebert

Academic Services Coordinator ,  [email protected]  (319) 335-2082

Heather Roth

Administrative Services Coordinator  [email protected]   (319) 335-0712

Tammy Siegel

Department Administrator ,  [email protected] , (319) 335-0706