State, Society and Self

3 Credits · Level: Graduate

This graduate seminar will introduce students to canonical texts that have been crucial to the development of the modern social sciences in general and of history in particular. By revisiting these texts, we will explore fundamental assumptions that underlie historical research. This is the first of a two part graduate seminar focused on social scientific theory, the second of which is focused on theory from the global south. While this course is not required to take the second part of this sequence, it is highly recommended for any student interested in taking that course.