POL 180 - FS: First-Year Seminar

Credits: 3

First-Year Seminar. Prerequisite: First-Year class standing. First-year seminar.

Winter 2018, POL 180-01: FS: Black American Politics (3). First-year seminar. Prerequisite: First-year standing. This course explores the diverse political philosophies of influential black Americans as they sought to secure their dignity as human beings and rights as citizens. In particular, we examine the fundamental tension between human equality and government by consent, a tension present at the birth of the American Union in 1776. (SS2) Morel.