POLI010 PO - Political Freedom

When Offered: Fall 2025.
Instructor(s): J. Seery
Credit: 1

A theoretical study of the pursuit of freedom through politics. Topics include freedom and authority; equality and liberty; rights, dissent, revolution; community versus individuality; excitable speech; considerations of culture, class, gender, race, embodiment; and technology. Readings from Toni Morrison, bell hooks, Angela Davis, J.S. Mill, Isiah Berlin, Philip Pettit, Orlando Patterson, Neil Roberts, Shatema Threadcraft, Saidiya Hartman, Frederick Douglass, Ralph Ellison, Franz Fanon, Malcolm X, Henry David Thoreau, Donna Haraway, Audre Lorde, Sara Ahmed, Saba Mahmood, and others; films, paintings; music

Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
Area 2