Undergraduate Property – GOVT 406
CG • Section 8WK • 11/08/2019 to 04/16/2020 • Modified 02/01/2024
Course Description
For information regarding prerequisites for this course, please refer to the Academic Course Catalog.
Rationale
Property law serves as an essential foundation that supports American law, government, and liberty while promoting a free-market economy. The goal of this undergraduate property course is to introduce upper-level government students to the law of property.
Course Assignment
Textbook readings and lecture presentations
Course Requirements Checklist
After reading the Course Syllabus and Student Expectations, the student will complete the related checklist found in the Course Overview.
Discussions (2)
Discussions are collaborative learning experiences. Therefore, the student is required to provide a thread in response to the provided prompt for each Discussion. Each thread must be at least 300 words and demonstrate course-related knowledge. In addition to the thread, the student is required to reply to 2 other classmates’ threads. Each reply must be 150 words.
Case Questions Assignments (5)
The student will read and answer the questions posed in the assigned case problems from the course textbook, and provide an explanation and analysis as to why that answer is legally correct. The student will utilize the Case Questions Template to complete these assignments. The answers provided for each case should total at least 150-200 words.
Quizzes (4)
Each quiz will cover the Learn material for the chapters described for each quiz, to test the material for each of the covered modules. Each quiz will be open-book/open-notes, allow one attempt, contain 25 multiple-choice and true/false questions, and have a 2-hour time limit.
The Quiz: Final Exam will cover the Learn material for Module 8: Week 8. The exam will be open-book/open-notes, allow one attempt, contain 50 multiple-choice, true/false, and short answer questions, and have a 4-hour time limit.
