HIST 444J (H01) - Honors/Global Citizenship: In Pursuit of Liberty

Honors/Global Citizenship

Durham   Liberal Arts :: History
Credits: 4.0
Term: Spring 2021 - Full Term (02/01/2021 - 05/11/2021)
Grade Mode: Letter Grading
Class Size:   20  
CRN: 56274
What does it mean to be a global citizen? Are we? What are human rights? Are they universal? This honors discovery course will explore with the men and women who traveled and thought beyond the borders of their locality and their moment of time and who imagined themselves citizens of the world. We will start with early revolutions that traversed oceans and national borders. We'll read utopias that saw their world differently. In the end, we will investigate major global challenges of our own world. We will move backwards, but also forwards in history. We will read novels, and perform plays. We will listen to Beethoven and Berlioz, in class and discuss larger questions of our international community, from sustainability to diversity, as they echo through different disciplines. Course meets History major requirement for Group I or II.
Department Approval Required. Contact Academic Department for permission then register through Webcat.
Only listed campus in section: Durham, Manchester
Only the following students: Honors Program
Attributes: Writing Intensive Course, Scheduled meeting time, Online (no campus visits), Inquiry (Discovery), Historical Perspectives(Disc), Honors course, EUNH
Instructors: STAFF

Times & Locations

Start Date End Date Days Time Location
2/1/2021 5/11/2021 TR 3:40pm - 5:00pm ONLINE
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This Hamel Seminar will explore the interrelationship of human rights, nationalism, and cosmopolitanism. Philosophers in the eighteenth century aspired to be at home everywhere and strangers nowhere. National borders in our own time not only limit our travel, but impede immigration. What are our obligations to others around the world?

What global challenges defy national and local solutions? We will begin to imagine solutions, or at least new ways to think about them. Is democracy inherently a national system of government? Could there be a global system of governance? What might it look like? We will investigate these questions by following our interests in topics such as climate change, pandemics, wealth inequality, and migration.