Prerequisite: Teacher Recommendation. Through work in a college level text and regular consideration of current media, this course exposes students to the current political systems in six core countries – Britain, China, Iran, Mexico, Nigeria, and Russia- and, provides the content for conceptual and thematic analysis. Students will consider the history of these nations as well as culture, social divisions, and formal structures of government. The course places emphasis on themes such as globalization, democratization, political change, public policy, and citizen-state relations. This course satisfies the Government requirement for graduation. The student must schedule an Economics course to complete the Social Studies requirement for graduation. Grade weighted upon successful completion of course. If taking this as senior year Government course, an Economics course must be taken in addition to this course. Also, an online section of Comparative Government and Politics AP is available. However, this is only for students who are unable to schedule this course during the school day. Requests to move from the face-to-face class to the online class will not be approved after the deadline for submitting schedule changes for the following school year. Students must speak to their guidance counselor about this.