AMERICAN PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS: DISSECTED, RESECTED AND PROJECTED

(open to non-members)

Young Harris College President Cathy Cox and Dr. Lee March, Dean of Social and Behavioral Sciences Division at Young Harris College

Tuesday, Wednesday & Thursday, June 24 – 26

1 - 3 pm. (3 sessions)

Wilson Lecture Hall

Cost: $13.00

This course will explore the American presidential election process. For the first two days, Dr. Lee March will guide us through an examination of several presidential elections that have altered the way we look at the presidency, the election process itself, and the country as a whole.  Among the key elections we will look into are those of 1800, 1876, 1932, and 1980.  We will use these historic elections to view 2008, which promises its own paradigm shift. Then Cathy Cox will discuss voting and election law changes that have occurred since the 2000 presidential election that ended up before the U.S. Supreme Court. We will learn more about the strength and operation of Georgia’s voting system and likely areas of controversy in this year’s presidential election.

YHC President Cathy Cox served for eight years as Georgia’s Secretary of State and chief elections official. For her efforts in reforming Georgia's elections in 2002, she became the first secretary of state in the nation to be named "Public Official of the Year" by Governing Magazine. Cathy is also an attorney, holding the J.D. and LL.D (Hon.) degrees from Mercer University.

Dr. Lee March holds the John H. Harland Chair of Political Science and is the Dean of the Division of Social and Behavioral Sciences at YHC.  Dr. March has been a member of the faculty at YHC since 1993 and has been selected as Faculty Member of the Year seven times by the student body. He has been leading courses for ICL since 1998.

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