American Political Thought

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Pre-req: Completion of the Core Curriculum Research & Professional Writing requirement, Must have at least sophomore standing to be eligible for this course. Consideration of thought about American political institutions and practice. Major topics include revolutionary ideas and antecedents; framing of the Constitution and constitutional debate; 19th-century responses to slavery and large-scale industrialism; and modern social construction of race and gender. Other topics may include Jefferson, Paine, Melville, Jacksonianism, Progressivism, and modern liberal thought.