{"id":102133,"date":"2018-01-02T18:23:41","date_gmt":"2018-01-03T01:23:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/mancos-public-library-will-host-a-free-government-course\/"},"modified":"2018-01-02T18:23:41","modified_gmt":"2018-01-03T01:23:41","slug":"mancos-public-library-will-host-a-free-government-course","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/mancos-public-library-will-host-a-free-government-course\/","title":{"rendered":"Mancos Public Library will host a free government course"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\"The
The Mancos Public Library will offer a free four-part class on American government and civics on Jan. 3, 10, 17 and 31.<\/span>Humphries Poli Architects<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>

Starting Wednesday evening, the Mancos Public Library will host a free four-part class on American government and civics.<\/p>\n

\u201cAmerican Government Primer,\u201d taught by Crested Butte attorney Sarah Coleman, will be live-streamed at the library starting 6 p.m. each Wednesday. Coleman said it will focus on three themes: federalism, the branches of government and how the government interacts with individuals. Each class will be open to the public.<\/p>\n

This is the third time Coleman has taught the course in Gunnison County, but this will be her first time broadcasting it to other libraries. Mancos will be one of about half a dozen libraries to receive the livestream from the Crested Butte Library.<\/p>\n

Coleman said she was inspired to teach the course after the 2014 midterm elections, when only about 30 percent of eligible U.S. voters went to the polls. She said she believed many voters held misconceptions about the way government and elections worked, and she created the course to help combat those misconceptions.<\/p>\n

\u201cOver the past year, year and a half, there\u2019s been an upwelling of people being interested in politics,\u201d she said. \u201cBut people don\u2019t always have the information to engage the government with confidence.\u201d<\/p>\n

She said the course is designed to proved a \u201c30,000-foot view\u201d of the federal and state government. It will cover the ways states interact with the federal government, how each branch of government balances the other, and how individual citizens can become involved in those processes. Since Coleman\u2019s background is in law, she said she will approach these topics mainly from a legal perspective. She said she hoped the course would provide context for political issues people see in the news and empower them to be more involved in their government.<\/p>\n

The library\u2019s adult program coordinator, Shari Dunn, said she \u201cjust about jumped out of (her) chair\u201d when she saw Coleman was offering to broadcast the course.<\/p>\n

\u201cI believe there is a dearth of knowledge among people about how government does work,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Coleman said this month\u2019s course will be a \u201cpilot\u201d for future livestreams. If it\u2019s successful, she said she hopes to expand to more libraries in the future.<\/p>\n

The classes will be offered on Jan. 3, 10, 17 and 31. Coleman said people are welcome to attend any or all of them.<\/p>\n

\n

If you go<\/h4>\n

What: American Government Primer
\n When: 6 p.m., Wednesday, Jan. 3, 10, 17 and 31
\n Where: Mancos Public Library, 211 W. First St., Mancos
\n Cost: Free
\n More information: Call the library at 970-533-7600 or go to the Mancos Public Library Facebook page.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Four-part series begins Wednesday<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":102134,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5736,5735],"tags":[21,13,638,83],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-102133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news","tag-cortez","tag-frontpage-lead","tag-library-and-museum","tag-mancos"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102133\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102133"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=102133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}