The German-speaking world has a history of democracy undermined by totalitarianism and fascism. In this class, students will focus on performances in the German-speaking world that were staged as interventions against totalitarianism and that additionally promote transcultural community-building.
Learn more about this courseThis course focuses on how science policies are shaped by public opinion, partisan divisions, and political institutions. The course content will center on the debate over the cause, consequences, and policy responses to climate change.
Learn more about this courseThis course explores substantive public policy concerns through a mathematical lens that clarifies the systemic intricacies of a democracy. Students will enhance their own understanding of how democracy operates and how they themselves can become more effective participants.
Learn more about this courseThis course introduces students to the connections between economics and politics through the lens of capitalism and democracy. Once deemed the ideal economic and political systems, today both have been roundly criticized.
Learn more about this courseThis course introduces students to the class-based struggles that have shaped institutions and movements in the United States. Students will gain a deeper or different understanding of conflict and solidarity in the U.S. by looking at present and past intersections of class with other structures such as religion, ethnicity, and political action.
Learn more about this courseThis course examines the basic nature of politics, communication, and the public sphere. Broadly stated, the course's goals will be analyzing, understanding, and evaluating political messages and considering their role in the formation of a public.
Learn more about this courseThe PACE Issue Forum is a one credit, one-day experience in democratic deliberation. The course provides students with an opportunity to explore a timely and contentious public issue through multiple perspectives, while cultivating the skills of effective communication, active citizenship, and group deliberation. The fall 2020 topic is "Partisan Politics: Challenges and Opportunities for Democracy in Trying Times."
Learn more about this courseIn PACE-C 250, students learn to better understand the factors involved in the policy processes and practice the key skills to bring theory to practice. Students will gain an understanding of the various philosophies that shape American’s political environment.
Learn more about this courseWhat does it mean to be an American? What does it mean to be an American citizen? These questions are at the heart of current political debates about racism, civil rights, sexism, LGBT rights, immigration, and economic justice. This class will trace and analyze the many ways that these questions have been posed and answered since 1776, and it will do so through a focus on alternative interpretations of the Declaration of Independence, which has sometimes been called the “birth certificate of American democracy.”
Learn more about this coursePresidential Elections are always the Super Bowl of American politics. They are entertaining, frustrating and ultimately profoundly important as they set the overall directions of policy for the nation. We will take an in-depth look at how America will decide.
Learn more about this courseThis course will compare democratic political systems to autocratic/dictatorial ones and explore the different ways in which each political system affects the lives of individuals. The course will explore the process of democracy building and its pitfalls.
Learn more about this courseThe course will examine policing of not only the US but also India, the UK, Japan, The Netherlands, Finland, France, Portugal, Singapore, South Africa and several emerging democracies to understand how this paradox is being resolved around the world.
Learn more about this courseIn this class, students will learn about climate engineering: temporarily and deliberately modifying the climate. The class will pursue answers to these and other questions about climate engineering: What can climate engineering do? Why are people talking about this? How would it work?
Learn more about this courseIn this course, students will learn about the context, interpretations, and implications of the right and practice of free speech. The class will emphasize the role that the First Amendment plays in establishing and securing democratic practice.
Learn more about this courseFor some social movements, the law is an important target of action. This course will compare the tactics of several movements to see how approaches to the law influences their rhetoric.
Learn more about this courseThe French Revolution overthrew one monarchy and fundamentally challenged the legitimacy of many others. For all its enduring legacies, the Revolution’s history is most poignantly a tale of democracy’s fragility.
Learn more about this courseThis course helps students understand the powerful phenomena of nationalism, socialism/communism, and fascism in context. A historical look at each system in relation to democracy prepares students to think what democracy was, is, could have been, and will be.
Learn more about this courseThis 300-level history course explores the evolution of modern democracy from the revolutionary era to the present, looking at the challenges and critics that have periodically challenged democracy – and sometimes overthrown it altogether.
Learn more about this courseThis course explores the evolution of thinking about democracy, as both a system of government and a political ideal, in international society. Students will investigate the contours of historical and contemporary debates about self-government in the minds of democratic theorists, political figures, and the public at large.
Learn more about this courseThis course, a collaboration between PACE, History, Political Science, and Gender Studies, explores questions about women's suffrage from a variety of disciplinary and interdisciplinary perspectives.
Learn more about this courseWe will aim to understand and evaluate Plato’s criticisms of democracy, as well as the more complex views about the role of democratic elements in government developed in Plato’s Laws and in Aristotle’s Politics.
Learn more about this courseThis class examines how political messages impact voter information and engagement, with a goal of working toward achieving intersubjectivity (shared meaning) within a fractured media landscape.
Learn more about this courseIn this course you'll come to understand that parties and interest groups are actually necessary for democracy and how they shape our politics. We ask where do parties come from, and why are there only two stable ones in the U.S.? What are the differences between parties and interest groups?
Learn more about this courseThe focus of the course is on the current challenges to democracy, such as populism, illiberalism, and nativism. To understand the nature of these assaults on democratic values, we must first examine the principles and institutions of democracies around the world, as well as the conditions that facilitate or hinder democratic practices.
Learn more about this courseThis course thinks about U.S. society as a simultaneous racial and religious formation. Special attention will be given to “Whiteness” as the crux of American society and as operating as a form of religion-like belief.
Learn more about this courseThis course will explore the recent history of political t-shirts: how they’re made, distributed and worn, focusing on the impact of legislation and law enforcement. Students will be introduced to a variety of research skills including textual analysis, grounded theory development, oral history, and participant observation.
Learn more about this courseIn this course, students use The Wire to examine the nature of American society as an articulation of democracy. The intent of course activities is to foster within students a sense of the need for, and role of, critical thinking in addressing societal issues as the responsibility of a just democracy.
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