DEMOCRACY, JUSTICE, AND REVOLUTIONS

Course Objectives: This course provides an introduction to the debates on democracy, justice, and revolution from an interdisciplinary perspective. It also provides a framework for students to get to know some core concepts heavily used in social and political sciences. Students will have a hands-on experience in understanding social conflict and will also gain practical skills in preparing and delivering speeches. By end of the course, I hope that student will develop the tools for critically analyzing ideas of social and economic justice, recognize which ideological traditions they belong to, and how they were transformed (and stigmatized) over time, as well as how they were institutionalized in revolutionary moments.

Course Content: This course focuses on the schools of thought on social & economic justice and revolutions with a specific focus on the French Revolution