Humanities 2319
American Minorities: Political Culture in A Global Environment
Lectures
This course is organized thematically into seven lectures.
- In lecture 1, we discuss what political culture is and how it is formed and transmitted in society.
- Lecture 2 explores political ideas. beliefs and ideology with their requisite philosophical grounding throughout history.
- Lecture 3 will delve into American political culture, its origins and its influence within the broader global community.
- Lecture 4 deals with American political culture has
changed to accept Africans,
American Indians and other migrants as well as the challenges America faces as it
attempts to assimilate these groups into her political culture. - Lecture 5 expands on the Polity discussion in Lecture 4
by exploring the case of
women within American political culture. - Lecture 6 will allow us to examine how political culture forms and reflects ideology, the ways people can participate politically, and the factors that encourage or discourage participation among the polity.
- Lecture 7 will analyze the role of our political culture in the world. How has American political culture influenced our neighbors' political cultures---how have our neighbors' political culture influenced our own?
