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Apr 24, 2024
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Goucher College 2020-2021 Undergraduate Catalogue PLEASE NOTE: This is an archived catalog. Programs are subject to change each academic year.
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CPEC 206 - Democracy’s Spell (4 Cr.) (GCR Humanities and Interdisciplinary Studies area)
What is democracy? Where did it come from? Why is democracy the standard by which we judge all political regimes? Why do various individuals today on both sides of the left-right political divide call themselves “small-d democrats?” Is something that is un-democratic necessarily bad? What was the nature of the relationship between democracy and American slavery? How does democracy intersect with gender norms and capitalism? Is democracy an exclusively electoral-governmental phenomenon or is it also a cultural-social phenomenon? This course seeks answers to those questions by investigating various pre-democratic and democratic phenomena. Historical examples will come primarily from the American, British, and French experiences. In the second part of the semester, students will: 1) work on a group project; and 2) construct research problems regarding contemporary American democracy and elaborate on their findings in writing. Students are limited to one CPE course per semester. Hale.
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