The American Presidency

7/15/2025

State: FLORIDA

Great course. Well organized. Very professional. Good content. Wonderful professor.

7/10/2025

State: PENNSYLVANIA

I thoroughly enjoyed this course. The work was meaningful and expanded my knowledge of the American presidency. I was able to develop lessons that I will use in my classroom this upcoming school year.

12/29/2024

State: MASSACHUSETTS

Excellent ---I have done courses here before Very well done

11/25/2024

State: Armed Forces AE

The course was applicable and informative to my job as a middle school history teacher. I enjoy courses created by Dr. Carden. Always informative and engaging content and tasks.

9/26/2024

State: WYOMING

6/28/2024

State: NEW JERSEY

6/27/2024

State: PENNSYLVANIA

This course required extensive reading but the alternative assignments between essays and presentations were a good balance. I learned much about the transformation of the executive.

1/29/2024

State: CALIFORNIA

It was great.

4/17/2023

State: GEORGIA

This was a great course and extremely comprehensive in its content, the only negative thing I have to say about this course is the time it takes to complete the assignments. It is difficult to do for a person who teaches fulltime and has a family.

3/20/2023

State: PENNSYLVANIA

I loved the flexibility the course provided to complete the assignments. Personally, I love putting together presentations because I’m more of a visual thinker, so the PowerPoints and Prezis were enjoyable to create. I appreciated reading other students’ thoughts through the discussion posts as well. The only addition I think could be made to enhance the course would be to update the content to include the presidents up to the current president. The election of 2016 alone would provide great content, especially throughout module 6 when discussing the presidency and mass media. Other than that, I truly enjoyed this course and would recommend it to anyone interested in American politics.

2/23/2022

State: OHIO

It was fantastic!

7/29/2021

State: PENNSYLVANIA

This course was very informative not only on the American Presidents, but how one comes to occupy the Oval Office. The Electoral College and the use of Mass Media were also themes in the course. The ever important First Lady was also a part of the course. The fact that there was a DVD series and reference text offered variety when obtaining background knowledge. The assignments took you from our very earliest Presidential History to our nation's modern Presidential History. Overall, I was very pleased with the course.

2/15/2021

State: PENNSYLVANIA

1/8/2021

State: CALIFORNIA

12/31/2020

State: PENNSYLVANIA

I have taken several continuing education courses through Fresno Pacific, and they've all been excellent. But this and the Lincoln and Civil War America-SOC958, have been my two favorites. I feel much better equipped to examine aspects of the presidency, particularly issues surrounding executive power, with my fifth graders going forward!