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Spring 2018 | POL 4487 Section 001: The Struggle for Democratization and Citizenship (50340)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 4 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
UMTC, West Bank
Blegen Hall 210
- Enrollment Status:
Open (28 of 30 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Origins of democratic process. Emphasizes how disenfranchised fought to become included. History of democratic movement from its earliest moments to present. Attempts to draw a balance sheet.
- Class Notes:
- http://classinfo.umn.edu/?animtz+POL4487+Spring2018
- Class Description:
- The setting for this course is the mounting effort on the part of states and a variety of social forces to roll back the historic gains of the world-wide democratic movement--from anti-immigrant campaigns (in both fascist and non-fascist clothing) that would limit citizenship rights to efforts that undermine civil liberties in the guise of combatting terrorisim. This takes place in a larger context in which increasing numbers of citizens feel disempowered and alienated from the state. As democracy and popular participation are central to citizenship the course traces the origins of the democratic process with particular emphasis on how the disenfranchised fought to become included. Both implicitly and explicitly it seeks to understand how that occured in order to see if there are lessons of the past that that might have appllicability for the defense and extension of democratic rights today. To understand it was the disenfranchised who empowered themselves is in itself empowering. An underlying assumption of the course is that the inclusion of previously disenfranchised layers of society into the category of citizens is due to social struggles or the threat of such--an assumption to be examined in the course.
- Grading:
- 25% Midterm Exam
50% Final Exam
25% Reports/Papers
- Exam Format:
- Essay
- Class Format:
- 75% Lecture
25% Discussion
- Workload:
- 100 Pages Reading Per Week
15 Pages Writing Per Term
2 Exam(s)
2 Paper(s)
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/50340/1183
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 24 October 2011
ClassInfo Links - Spring 2018 Political Science Classes