POLITICAL SCIENCE 462 - Public Spheres

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Hobart William Smith Colleges

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Democracy, many think, is rule by the public. But who or what is the public Does it refer to a numerical group To occupants of a specific territorial space To an ideal collectivity who may not yet exist but can be called into being Is it an adjective denoting something funded by the government, as in "public housing" This seminar considers the impact of any of these understandings of the public in terms of their opposites: the domestic private sphere, the economic private sphere, and the sphere of secrets. Grappling with the impact of notions of the public on conceptions of democracy, students ask whether democracy requires something like a public sphere, and what this means in a mediatized, technocultural age. (Dean)

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3.00

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Lecture

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WWW.HWS.EDU

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(315) 781-3000

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

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Semester

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