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Calendar

LEC # TOPICS KEY DATES
1 Introduction
2 What is Citizenship and Why Does It Matter?
3 What is Pluralism? Pluralism of What?
One Response To Pluralism: Multicultural Citizenship
4 Liberal Arguments for Multicultural Citizenship
5 Communitarian Arguments for Multicultural Citizenship
6 Diversity Arguments for Multicultural Citizenship
7 Critiques of Multiculturalism
Alternative Responses To Pluralism
8 Civic Republican Views of Citizenship
First Paper Due (or for those writing one long paper, one-page paper proposal due)
9 Liberal Views of Citizenship
10 Cosmopolitan Views
11 Radical Pluralist/Postmodern Views
Topics
12 Pluralism and American Citizenship
13 Pluralism and Gender
14 Rethinking Multiculturalism
Final Papers Due