OSUN Themes: Democratic Practice; Global Justice; Human Rights
Politics as Method, Experience, & Practice: Critical-Existential Investigations
Term: January 29, 2024 – May 8, 2024Level: 100-Level
Day/Time: Monday; Wednesday 1:05 PM -2:30 PM EST
Instructor: Asma Abbas, Bard College at Simon's Rock
A critical, existential introduction to political inquiry, knowledge, and practice, drawing on political & social theory, political science, history, and cultural studies - this course attends to how we constitute our politics and learn to think, read, ask, and act politically, and to the relation of knowledge to political responsibility in these times. It provides some of the conceptual, experiential, & analytical tools for our vital engagements with the study, activity, and experience of politics.
Credits: 3 US / 6 ECTS