Wired on iTablet

Large-screen color tablets, when they finally arrive, will rock the world. Here's Conde Nast's take for Wired Magazine.

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This Year's Freshmen

Most of this year's Freshman were born in 1991. For many of us, that seems like yesterday. To relate, we've got to be careful about our historical perspective.

For these students...

• Text has always been hyper.

• The KGB has never officially existed.

• Chocolate chip cookie dough ice cream has always been a flavor choice.

The Beloit College Mindset List is a great way to jog our thinking. See this year's full list here.

American Government

Here's another brief course profile, this time from the Political Science Department.

American Government

Really US Government

Taught at 2 yr and 4 yr schools

General Education requirement

Requirement for transfer to 4 yr schools

Lecture, quizzes, papers, mid-term, final

Textbooks

Brief

14 chapters, 380 pages, 25 pages per chapter

13 chapters government structure, 1 policy

Brief growing in popularity (due to lower cost)

Comprehensive

20 chapters, 650 pages, 32 pages per chapter

16 chapters structure, 4 chapters policy

Texas

Adds 7 chapters on Texas government

Professors

Both faculty and adjuncts

Most are education oriented

Often tech-phobic

Students

Both freshman and sophomores

Both non-majors (mostly) and majors

Some had HS Civics, others didn't

Many lack college reading and writing skills

Many are politically naive

Others follow Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert