HIST 208 Transformative Texts II: Citizenship and Communities
Transformative Texts 2: Citizenship and Communities is the second of two gateway courses leading to a series of integrated pathways through our university's existing liberal arts curriculum. The gateway courses feature common readings; show the humanities as a source of meaning and purpose in life; and invite students to think about citizenship from various perspectives, with an emphasis on American democracy. These humanities-centered sequence of courses are based on readings from a wide array of times and cultures that explicitly and implicitly engage these topics, and that branch out to incorporate local and global realities and imperatives of citizenship. Transformative Texts 2 considers the foundations for citizenship in seminal documents that have shaped American identity, that engage strife within a pluralistic society, and that consider crucial issues that extend beyond national borders.