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Nov 21, 2024
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Goucher College 2018-2019 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.)
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 phenomemon? 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. Restricted to first-year and sophomore students, and others with instructor permission. Students are limited to one CPE course per semester. Spring 2019. Hale.
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