ClassInfo - Fall 2018 Political Science Classes

Fall 2018 | POL 3272 Section 001: What Makes Political Community? (21091)

Instructor(s): Nancy Luxon
Class Component:: Lecture
Credits:: 3 Credits
Grading Basis:: Student Option
Instructor Consent:: No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:: In Person Term Based
Class Attributes:: UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
Times and Locations:: Regular Academic Session

09/04/2018 - 12/12/2018

Tue, Thu 04:00PM - 05:15PM

UMTC, West Bank

Blegen Hall 205
Enrollment Status:: Open (28 of 30 seats filled)
Also Offered:: (Tentative) Spring 2023

Course Catalog Description:: We will explore different ways to think political community. Many contemporary political challenges are not just thorny problems but transform the very institutions, engagements, and concepts through which we understand what the activity of politics is and might be. Other societies and thinkers have faced drastically new challenges to their politics. So, we propose a course that would explore how political actors make and remake community. Our first unit, Polis and Empire, turns to the ancient world to reexamine the scope of politics, as it experimented with small city-states and large empires. Second, Colonial Encounters will analyze the movements of ideas, trades, and people back and forth across the Atlantic. Third, Revolution Reimagined treats incendiary moments of cultural and political contact. This course speaks to humanist concerns of how humans forge meanings and communities even from conditions of injustice and inequality.
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