(Re)BuildingCommunityPostCovid

1 Credit · Level: Undergraduate

This course is designed to continue discussions begun in GOVT 040, Comparative Political Systems, in Fall 2020, by engaging emerging political issues in a global context. Employing a small-group discussion format, and short readings, videos, or podcasts as the launching point for conversation, it will foster integration of academic understandings of key trends of political and social life and students’ lived experience both at Georgetown and in the communities in which they currently reside during the pandemic. Course Objectives and Goals: This course has two main goals: 1) Foster an ongoing sense of friendship and community among Georgetown students during this time of pandemic, building on shared interests in political and social issues in a global context. 2) Deepen understanding and personal reflection on key political and social issues around the globe today, including issues of governance, democracy and autocracy, identity, ethnicity, gender, distribution and inequality, educational opportunity, and social and political change. Choice of which issues to take up will be made in consultation with the students enrolled, and it is hoped that these will intersect with topics emerging in their other courses at Georgetown.