GOVT 2665

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GOVT 2665
American Political Thought

Course information provided by the Courses of Study 2023-2024. Courses of Study 2023-2024 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

  •  9886 GOVT 2665   LEC 001

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  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  • 10061 GOVT 2665   DIS 201

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    • M Ives Hall 107
    • Aug 21 - Dec 4, 2023

    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  • 10062 GOVT 2665   DIS 202

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  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  • 17642 GOVT 2665   DIS 203

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    • F White Hall 114
    • Aug 21 - Dec 4, 2023

    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  • 17644 GOVT 2665   DIS 204

  •  
    • F White Hall 114
    • Aug 21 - Dec 4, 2023

    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: In Person