GS 3000 North Park Dialogue III: Community
How are communities formed? What unites them? What divides them? How do communities change over time? What makes some communities ethical and others unethical? What role does nationalism, language, religion, race and ethnicity, economics, and geography play in the formation of community? What is the relationship between community and multiculturalism? What light do various academic disciplines bring to bear on the way communities function? This course asks students to engage with the assumptions about community embodied in a variety of historical primary texts, and to explore their own roles in the communities they inhabit. This course emphasizes reading strategies and models of intellectual inquiry, while simultaneously asking students to analyze their own participation in one or more contemporary communities.
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