GOVT-234 The Politics of Equality: Hierarchies in Contemporary Life

Students will explore power, equality, and the ways that parts of our identity influence our experience of political life in areas such as political membership, criminal justice, education, and voting access. The class will integrate course material with student reflections on their own political development and will also bring in public officials and community activists to share their experience of contributing to public life. We will focus primarily on the United States, but will also put course themes in comparative perspective. The course is intended to fulfill the SSIH requirement.

Maximum Enrollment

Seminar (12)

(Writing Intensive, Social Structural and Institutional Hierarchies, Seminar.)

Credits

1

Prerequisite

Any 100-level Government class or permission of instructor

Offered

Spring

Notes

Limit of 12 per section. (American Politics)