Diversity, Disagreement, and Democracy
Lecture, three or four hours; discussion, one hour (when scheduled). Designed for juniors/seniors. Can't we all just get along? Study of diversity, disagreement, and democracy. Diversity covers individual differences, cultural differences, and human universals; groupism, factionalism, and identity politics; multiculturalism and one-world ethics. Disagreement includes moral, ideological, and party-political disagreement; resolvable and irresolvable kinds of disagreement; groupthink and group polarization; herding and information cascades. Democracy stands for political mechanisms of information aggregation; political mechanisms to resolve differences, or to keep peace among people with irresolvable differences; emergence and spread of democracy, liberty, and rule of law. Letter grading.
Review Summary
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8.3 / 10
- Organization
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8.3 / 10
- Time
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5-10 hrs/week
- Overall
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3.3 / 10
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So basically, the class requires you to participate in a weekly class survey that lasts from Monday to Wednesday. Once the data of the survey is published on Wednesday, you have until next Monday to write up and submit a 2-3 page report analyzing the findings of the data. The material honestly doesn't seem all that related to political science but it is interesting at sometimes. Doing yourself though is very time consuming which is why I highly recommend that you immediately opt in to work as a group whenever you the chance and divide up the workload. You'll likely get an A as long as you're consistent and turn everything in on time.
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Grading Information
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Has a group project
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Attendance not required
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No midterms
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No final
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100% recommend the textbook