Senior Seminar On the Presidency: The Trump Administration

3 units

This course uses the run-up to the presidential election as a point of departure for considering the current presidency. This is a research seminar that will begin with a series of common readings, after which students will constitute themselves into research teams that will explore the current state of the presidency in broad cultural perspective. 2020 Iteration: In Spring 2020, the course will focus on the election and presidency of Donald Trump as experienced by Washington University in particular and St. Louis in general.