[Gr 10-12] Democracy and Free Societies

Each session is a duration of two weeks. Session 1  6/29-7/10 Session 2  7/13-7/24 Session 3  7/27-8/7 Session 4  8/10-8/21 Class Schedule* Tue & Thu 2 weeks, 2 times a week 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm (EST) * The program will be automatically canceled if less than 3 students signed up for the program. (Subject to full tuition refund) Course Description  Pre-req: any one of Modern European History, US History, or World History.   This course is a deep dive into the fundamental and functional principles of modern democratic governance and how these principles function in practice today. We will examine the arguments and counter-arguments of political philosophy, analyze key concepts and processes in the social functioning (and malfunctioning) of democracy, and consider how these principles and concepts have been put into practice over the past two hundred fifty years under presidential, parliamentary, and mixed systems. This course is divided into two parts- Part A and Pa