Professor: Tobin Hansen

credits 4.00

• CRN 22680: Tuesday & Thursday, 5:10-7:00pm @ CHA 201

This course examines citizenship as a legal, social, and cultural concept. We will explore the historical emergence of citizenship through various modes of collective belonging and membership, the contours of citizenship in recent history and today, and the consequences of being conferred or denied various forms of citizenship. How might we conceptualize nation-state, cultural, and social citizenship regimes? What are the relationships between citizenship, place, and identity? In what ways might social identities—e.g., race, gender, sexuality, and social class—shape people’s experiences of citizenship within those regimes? And what are the implications of citizenship for the legal and political structures within which, or outside of which, they exist?

We will explore passport regimes, the freedom to cross nation-state boundaries, displacement, statelessness, and banishment in and from the United States and a variety of cross-cultural and regional contexts. We will consider citizenship through written and visual texts and engage concepts, in discussion and writing, within and across scholarly disciplines such as anthropology, history, philosophy, and sociology.

Graduation Requirement: This class will fulfill a Social Science Colloquium and the Global Perspectives cultural literacy requirement. If a student has already completed a Social Science Colloquium, the course will fulfill both of the following requirements: an Elective Colloquium and the Global Perspectives cultural literacy requirement.