APSA Working Group on American Civics Undergraduate Course Mandates
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2026 APSA Annual Meeting & Exhibition — Boston, MA
9:00 am – 5:00 pm
An increasing number of states, university systems, universities, and colleges that now require undergraduate students to complete an American government or civics course to graduate. In the fall of 2025, the American Political Science Association’s Departmental Services Program launched a working group on American Civics Undergraduate Course Mandates. The working group features 30 political science faculty members from public and private institutions across the U.S. Meeting during the 2025-2026 academic year, the working group began developing resources and a report to support political science departments whose programs and courses help their university or college meet these externally mandated American politics and civics undergraduate credit requirements. Our work is focused on four core areas: (1) developing curriculum and learning outcomes (2) understanding variance across the requirements (3) generating departmental strategies for dealing with increases in their undergraduate enrollment, and (4) departmental advocacy for resources to meet these requirements.
We would use the APSA short course to convene the working group in person and continue its ongoing research with an aim to release materials to the discipline in 2027. The full day short course would allow for working group members to present ongoing research and collaborate in person on these research efforts.
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