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Learner Reviews & Feedback for America's Written Constitution by Yale University

4.8
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429 ratings

About the Course

An introduction to the main themes of the American Constitution—popular sovereignty, separation of powers, federalism, and rights....

Top reviews

SG

Jan 6, 2017

Awesome!! Even for a History major like myself it was incredibly thought provoking and extremely well taught. I only wish every American received this level of instruction on The Constitution.

GA

Mar 21, 2019

this course has given me the great view of Written constitution of USA and how my country India Constitution took this model WRITTEN constitution from USA and has implemented similarly

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By Bob S

Dec 18, 2016

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By Peter G

Mar 31, 2016

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By Douglas P

Jul 10, 2021

A well constructed programme, marginally dated, but none the worse for that. Delivery is very traditional, what mind be termed "full frontal teaching". The ongoing mini-questionnaires are useful and the Mastery Quizes quite challenging. You need to pay careful attention to the lectures and be prepared to apply your acquired knowledge to successfully complete them. The peer group review of the two essays and the requirement to review six essays from other students is novel. Some may miss review of their work by a professional. Overall the course is well up to the standard of a University-provided programme.

By Telêmaco B

Nov 24, 2016

It is not five stars for just one reason: it think it could be better if having not so long video. Please, professor Amar split the 22minutes/31minutes videos in small portions.

Notwithstanding, it was amazing and inspiring to know how democratic the American Constitution creation process was. Unfortunately, because the socialism and communism influence in our country we do not have much information about everything which have to do with American history and culture.

You American people would be proud their history and take care to things go on at the same way.

By Rick B

Jul 12, 2017

Very informative. The professor's knowledge and enthusiasm shines through; however, I wish he would work a bit on his presentation, which includes too many ums and ahs and other speech habits. Once you get used to it, after a couple of lectures, you can kind of block them out. Other than that, I enjoyed enhancing my understanding of the constitution, its development, and transformations.

By Richard L L

Jun 8, 2021

This is a very informative course. My only issue is the amount of time spent reviewing previous lessons. I beleive the time could have been better used to continue the expansion of the subject instead of all the review which got tedious.

By Joseph E B

Nov 14, 2015

This course was a great introduction to the United States Constitution. The material was given sufficient lecture time to allow you to grasp the information and it was not rushed through.

By Neal G

Oct 24, 2016

excellent review of the content, intentions, and context behind the language of the Constitution, including the amendments. I really enjoyed it.

By Kenneth J

Jan 17, 2016

im beginning to like this course the professor is very good at making the study of the constitution lively

By Amos N

Oct 4, 2015

Got started late but has been very informative with lots of surprises I thought I knew more than I did.

By Camilo N C

Jul 2, 2019

I was expecting for more legal information to be delivered. I think it was to historically oriented

By Kathy A M

Jun 27, 2022

Really like Professor Amar. The peer review is not good. Can be months to get your review.

By Philip T

Jul 4, 2018

Great course and an excellent start in understanding Federal Government.

By Patrick m

Mar 5, 2021

The course was very good in many ways. I reduced by one star because Prof Amar's lecturing was, to be honest, a little nervous. At times he was slow enough I had to put it on 1.5x speed, but then he would suddenly go so fast I could barely keep up.

I reduced a second star because the description implied, or perhaps I inferred, that the course was more legally based. This was a very good civics class level course. It is highly appropriate for anyone who either didn't take HS civics, or can't remember it. I would not classify this as a law course.

All that said, I am reading his companion book and will probably take the second course.

By Peter H

May 8, 2017

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By Michael T

Nov 6, 2015

Unfortunately there is no involvement academic staff so there is no assistance/support. The course is put out there and students are left to their own devices. The calibre of students is poor and informed discussions non-existent. A great pity because the content on occasion is interesting.

By Pocahontas M

Nov 19, 2021

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By Linda M H

May 4, 2022

I would have rated a 5 if my first assignment was reviewed sooner. I still don't have a new review of assignment #1 yet all other quizzes and assighment #2 has been completed and graded. It now has been over 3 weeksweeks. I want to get my certificate. Also i don't believe this is read by the professor.

By JPConnell

Feb 22, 2022

Sorry, this professor is far from engaging. He takes an extremelyh interesting subject (the U.S. Constitution) an crushes one's intellect with boredom.

By Jeffrey A C

Jul 18, 2022

Terrible lecturer & faulty exam questions.