GOVT 2665

GOVT 2665

Course information provided by the Courses of Study 2022-2023. Courses of Study 2022-2023 is scheduled to publish mid-June.

This course offers a survey of American political thought from the colonial period to the present. We will read Puritan sermons, revolutionary pamphlets, philosophical treatises, presidential orations, slave narratives, prison writings, and other classic texts, in order to understand the ideas and debates that have shaped American politics. Topics to be discussed will include the meaning of freedom, the relationship between natural rights and constitutional authority, the idea of popular sovereignty, theories of representation and state power, race and national identity, problems of inequality, and the place of religion in public life. Lectures will be organized around both historical context and close reading of primary texts.

When Offered Fall.

Breadth Requirement (HB)
Distribution Category (HA-AS, HST-AS)
Course Subfield (PT)

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: AMST 2669

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16700 GOVT 2665   LEC 001

    • TR
    • Aug 22 - Dec 5, 2022
    • Frank, J

      Livingston, A

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  • 16896 GOVT 2665   DIS 201

    • M
    • Aug 22 - Dec 5, 2022
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  • 16899 GOVT 2665   DIS 204

    • F
    • Aug 22 - Dec 5, 2022
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: In Person