GOVT 2665

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GOVT 2665
American Political Thought

Course information provided by the Courses of Study 2024-2025.

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.

Distribution Category (HST-AS) (HA-AG)
Course Subfield (PT)

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: AMST 2669, HIST 2655

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  8897 GOVT 2665   LEC 001

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    • MW Uris Hall 202
    • Aug 26 - Dec 9, 2024

    • Livingston, A

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  8942 GOVT 2665   DIS 201

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  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  8943 GOVT 2665   DIS 202

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    • M White Hall B02
    • Aug 26 - Dec 9, 2024

    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  • 10241 GOVT 2665   DIS 203

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    • W Uris Hall G22
    • Aug 26 - Dec 9, 2024

    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  • 10243 GOVT 2665   DIS 204

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    • F White Hall B04
    • Aug 26 - Dec 9, 2024

    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: In Person