Government 305ct - Seminar: Topics in American Government-The Conservative Tradition
Sem:Amer-T-ConservativeTrad
Fall
2023
01
4.00
Claire Leavitt
TU 1:20 PM - 4:00 PM
Smith College
GOV-305ct-01-202401
Hillyer 109
cleavitt@smith.edu
This course will focus on the history of conservative political thought and the conservative movement in the United States. Students read scholarship that analyzes and explains the movement from a historical perspective, and much of the focus will be on the thinkers who directly defined and contoured what it means to be a conservative in America, from the "father of conservatism" Edmund Burke to the Anti-Federalists to Milton Friedman to William F. Buckley to Ayn Rand to Allan Bloom. This class takes conservatism seriously both as an intellectual and a political tradition as it assesses and critiques its canon. Enrollment limited to 12. Juniors and seniors only. Instructor permission required.
[CE] JR/SR only