Fall/Winter Timetable
POL427H1F L0101
Graduate Course Code: POL2030H1F L0101
The Spirit of Democratic Citizenship
Themes
This course will examine the theoretical presuppositions orienting the construction of the attitudes and skills of democratic citizenship; simultaneously, students will consider what would be involved in the actual application of these knowledges in their real lives as citizens. The course consists of three parts: 1. Testing Reality: No One Truth: Consciousness of abstracting in the construction of reality. 2. Evoking the Other: Democracy as listening. Non-Violence. 3. Resisting internalized oppression. Mapping "individual" problems in social space. Transcending self-rating.
Format and Requirements
Final test (25%); brief oral and written reports (30%); participation (20%); research paper (25%).
Prerequisites
POL103Y1 / POL108Y1 / POL200Y1 / POL224Y1
Exclusions
POL427Y1
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