GLOS 3412 is also offered in Fall 2024
GLOS 3412 is also offered in Fall 2023
GLOS 3412 is also offered in Spring 2023
GLOS 3412 is also offered in Spring 2022
Spring 2022 | GLOS 3412 Section 001: What is Equality? (66139)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- A-F only
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Class Attributes:
UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
- Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
Tue,
Thu 01:00PM - 02:15PM
UMTC, West Bank
Blegen Hall 140
- Enrollment Status:
Open (30 of 35 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Course explores debates about equality. Equality has many dimensions--e.g.: economic, social, political. These forms cannot be reconciled. Liberal democracies affirm the principle of political equality but defend, even in principle, social and economic inequalities. Animal rights add another wrinkle: very few of those who fight for these rights would claim political equality for animals.
- Class Description:
- This course explores the work of equality in modern democratic nation-states. Democracy is unthinkable without reference to equality: all citizens are formally equal, and this formal equality is articulated in the principle of ‘one person one vote.' More broadly, claims to equality - political, civil economic, social, and cultural equality especially - are a shaping force of politics today. And yet, we are in a period of intensifying inequality. This course will explore the following themes: the histories that have shaped our thinking of equality; the political equality we exercise as citizens; the intensification and naturalization of economic and social inequality in a capitalist order, and what can be done about it; the relation between equality and equity; the equality sought by minorities or groups on the basis of historical injustices - say, equality for Blacks, Dalits, or women; the equality and inequality between humans and non-human life. The focus of this course will be on learning to think critically about equality, since learning to think critically is itself one of the most crucial forms of equality.
- Grading:
40%: weekly Canvas posts
40%: two exams (20% each)
20%: class participation
- Class Format:
40% lecture, 60% class discussions
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/66139/1223
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 28 November 2021
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