2022-2023 Academic Catalog 
    
    Mar 28, 2024  
2022-2023 Academic Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

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PSC 348, 349 - Democratic Theory

Course unit(s): 1
Meets GAR: Meets general academic requirement HU (and W when offered as 349).
Prerequisite(s): PSC 105 Political Ideologies  or PSC 260, 261 American Political Thought  or PSC 262, 263 Utopia & Its Critics  or any course in political philosophy offered in the Philosophy Department.
Examines important contributions to the meaning and practice of democracy drawn from both classic and contemporary sources, including representatives of liberal, communitarian, civic republican, and Marxists traditions of thought.  Among the issues considered are the nature and scope of democratic citizenship, forms of participation, civic education, deliberation and representation, issues of identity and difference, social and economic conditions needed for democratic politics, and structure of democratic institutions.



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