- Winter 2024
Meeting Time:
MW 12:30pm - 2:20pm
Location:
WFS 201
SLN:
22226
Instructor:
Syllabus Description:
This course surveys American political thought from Reconstruction to the present. Topics and authors include the crisis of post-bellum America (Walt Whitman and Frederick Douglass), Social Darwinism and progressive reform (William Graham Sumner and Jane Addams), the problem of the color-line (Booker T. Washington and W. E. B. Du Bois), anarchism and socialism (Emma Goldman and Eugene Debs), New Deal liberalism (Franklin Roosevelt and John Dewey), the black freedom movement (Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and James Baldwin), and the politics of difference (Toni Morrison and Audre Lorde).
Catalog Description:
Major thinkers in American political thought from Lincoln to Whitman to to Du Bois to Martin Luther King, Jr. to Malcolm X to Audre Lorde to Ronald Reagan. Emphasis on the legacies of slavery in American life and the tension between citizen and corporate power. Prerequisite: cannot be taken for credit if POL S 312 already taken.
Department Requirements:
Political Theory Field
American Politics Field
GE Requirements:
Diversity (DIV)
Social Sciences (SSc)
Writing (W)
Credits:
5.0
Status:
Active
Last updated:
January 8, 2024 - 9:01pm