LinguaForum Toefl Ibt Core Topic Guide

I. Basic Economics
1. The 17th-18th Century: Wampum
2. The 18th Century: The Trouble with Paper Money
3. The 18th Century: Decimal Coinage
4. The 19th Century: Thorstein Veblen
5. The 19th Century: The "Free Silver" Movement
6. The 19th-20th Century: Oil and the U.S. Economy
7. The 20th Century: What Started the Great Depression?
8. The 20th Century: John Kenneth Galbraith
9. The 20th Century: Supply-Side Economics

II. Political Science
1. The 18th Century: Thomas Jefferson and the Declaration of Independence
2. The 18th Century: The Separation of Powers
3. The 18th-20th Century: The Two-Party System
4. The 18th-20th Century: Who Elects a President?
5. The 18th-21st Century: Who Are "We the People"?
6. The 19th Century: The Rise and Fall of Populism
7. The 19th Century: Disputed Elections
8. The 19th-21st: Positive versus Negative Politics
9. The 20th Century: Was Roosevelt"s "New Deal" a Good Idea?
10. The 20th Century: When Are "Rights" Wrong?
11. The 20th Century: The Lobbying Industry

III. Psychology
1. Ancient Times-The 21st Century: What Folk Heroes Tell Us
2. The 18th-21st Century: National Villains
3. The 19th Century: The Lincoln Cult
4. The 19th-21st Century: The Elusive "American Character"
5. The 19th-20th Century: Americans and "Aliens"
6. The 19th-20th Century: The Importance of Uncle Sam
7. The 19th-20th Century: The Need for a Frontier
8. The 20th Century: "Star Trek" and American Thinking
9. The 20th Century: Shaping Public Opinion
10. The 20th Century: How to Sell Anything
11. The 20th Century: The UFO Phenomenon
12. The 20th Century: "Environmental Awareness"
13. The 20th Century: Americans and the "Underdog"

IV. Sociology
1. The 18th-20th Century: "Equality" and Reality
2. The 19th Century: The Politics of Corruption
3. The 19th-20th Century: The Irish in America
4. The 19th-20th Century: The Japanese-American Experience
5. The 20th Century: America's Urban Underclass
6. The 20th Century: Class Lines
7. The 20th Century: How Real is the "American Dream"?
8. The 20th Century: The Academic Class
9. The 20th Century: Superstar Scientists
10. The 20th Century: The Effects of Automation
11. The 20th Century: Conformists and Rebels
12. The 20th Century: The 1960s Counterculture
13. The 20th Century: Schools - What Do You Get for Your Money?
14. The 20th-21st Century: Who Should Pay for Public Schools?
15. The 20th-21st Century: A Society on Drugs
16. The 21st Century: Los Angeles Ignites
17. The 21st Century: Is the "Melting Pot" an Illusion?

V. Communications
1. The 19th-21st Century: "Ameringlish" vs "Britglish"
2. The 20th-21st Century: The Decline of the Letter
3. The 20th Century: The Video Age Begins
4. The 20th Century: Spanglish
5. The 20th Century: Communication by Song
6. The 20th Century: The Internet and Language
7. The 20th Century: American Slang
8. The 20th-21st Century: Acronyms and Everyday Speech
9. The 21st Century: "Ebonics"
10. The 21st Century: "Post-Literate" America