PSCI 326Multiculturalism and Democracy: Within, Against, and Beyond

In this course students will gain an understanding and learn to articulate diverse perspectives on democracy, multiculturalism, and the politics of recognition as they are understood within modern political thought. Through reading and analyzing a variety of sources, and engaging in original research, students will consider and discuss multiple ways of seeing these topics. Student will learn both history of Hegelian, liberal, and multicultural concepts which have shaped normative Canadian politics as well as to apply feminist, decolonial, Indigenous, and other critiques to critically reflect on and understand the limits of such paradigms.