{"id":21770,"date":"2019-09-05T17:15:42","date_gmt":"2019-09-05T21:15:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=21770"},"modified":"2019-09-05T17:16:52","modified_gmt":"2019-09-05T21:16:52","slug":"syllabus-of-civic-studies-fall-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=21770","title":{"rendered":"Syllabus of Introduction to Civic Studies, fall 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Fall 19 Civic Studies 0020-01 Intro to Civic Studies<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Instructors: Peter Levine, Brian Schaffner. TA: Gene Corbin<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Sept 4: Introduction<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Introduction to the course and the instructors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In class exercise: \u201cThe \u201cChristmas Tree Crisis\u201d at Sea-\u00ad?Tac Airport\u201d (handout in class)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Sept 9: Problems of collective action<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Timothy Burke, &#8220;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/burke\/permanent-features-advice-on-academia\/how-to-read-in-college\/\" target=\"_blank\">How to read in college&nbsp;(Links to an external site.)<\/a>.&#8221;&nbsp;<\/li><li>Amelia Hoover Green, &#8220;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ameliahoovergreen.com\/uploads\/9\/3\/0\/9\/93091546\/howtoread.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">How to read political science: a guide in four steps&nbsp;(Links to an external site.)<\/a>.&#8221;<ul><li>The above readings are to help guide you in how to read what we assign in this course. The following reading is the substance of what we will be discussing in class.<\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Garrett Hardin, &#8220;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/science.sciencemag.org\/content\/162\/3859\/1243\" target=\"_blank\">The Tragedy of the Commons.&#8221;&nbsp;&nbsp;(Links to an external site.)<\/a><em>Science,<\/em>&nbsp;vol. 162, no. 3859 (1968): 1243-1248.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>(In class, we will simulate a collective action problem.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Sept 11: Elinor Ostrom\u2019s solutions to the Tragedy of the Commons<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Elinor Ostrom,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nobelprize.org\/nobel_prizes\/economic-sciences\/laureates\/2009\/ostrom-lecture.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Nobel Prize Lecture&nbsp;&nbsp;(Links to an external site.)<\/a>(video or text)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Sept 16: Ostrom continued<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Thomas Dietz, Nives Dolsak, Elinor Ostrom, and Paul C. Stern,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/canvas.tufts.edu\/courses\/9548\/files\/983996\/download?wrap=1\">&#8220;The Drama of the Commons&#8221;<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/canvas.tufts.edu\/courses\/9548\/files\/983996\/download?wrap=1\"><\/a>&nbsp;in Elinor Ostrom, ed.,&nbsp;<em>Drama of the Commons<\/em>, pp. 3-26.<\/li><li>Elinor Ostrom,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/canvas.tufts.edu\/courses\/9548\/files\/983958\/download?wrap=1\">Governing the Commons<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/canvas.tufts.edu\/courses\/9548\/files\/983958\/download?wrap=1\"><\/a>, Ch. 1.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Sept 18: Ostrom Continued<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Elinor Ostrom,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/canvas.tufts.edu\/courses\/9548\/files\/983958\/download?wrap=1\">Governing the Commons,<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/canvas.tufts.edu\/courses\/9548\/files\/983958\/download?wrap=1\"><\/a>&nbsp;Ch. 3.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Sept 23: Social capital as part of the solution<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Robert D. Putnam, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/xroads.virginia.edu\/~hyper\/DETOC\/assoc\/bowling.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Bowling Alone: America&#8217;s Declining Social Capital,&nbsp;(Links to an external site.)<\/a>&#8221;&nbsp;<em>Journal of Democracy<\/em>&nbsp;6:1, Jan 1995, 65-78<\/li><li>Robert D. Putnam,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/canvas.tufts.edu\/courses\/9548\/files\/983999\/download?wrap=1\">&#8220;Community-Based Social Capital and Educational Performance,&#8221;<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/canvas.tufts.edu\/courses\/9548\/files\/983999\/download?wrap=1\"><\/a>&nbsp;in Ravitch and Viteritti, eds.,&nbsp;<em>Making Good Citizens<\/em>, pp. 58-95<\/li><li>Pierre Bourdieu,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.marxists.org\/reference\/subject\/philosophy\/works\/fr\/bourdieu-forms-capital.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>Forms of Capital<\/em>,&nbsp;(Links to an external site.)<\/a>&nbsp;1986 (excerpt)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Sept 25: Why do people voluntarily participate?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Inglehardt et al., \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/canvas.tufts.edu\/courses\/9548\/files\/1038685\/download?wrap=1\">Declining willingness to fight for one\u2019s country: The individual-level basis of the long peace<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/canvas.tufts.edu\/courses\/9548\/files\/1038685\/download?wrap=1\"><\/a>,\u201d Journal of Peace Research<\/li><li>Russell J. Dalton, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/journals.sagepub.com\/doi\/abs\/10.1111\/j.1467-9248.2007.00718.x?journalCode=psxa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Citizenship Norms and the Expansion of Political Participation,&nbsp;(Links to an external site.)<\/a>\u201d Political Studies<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Sept 30: Discussing good ends and means<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Reading assignment: the Harvard Pluralism Project&#8217;s case entitled&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/pluralism.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/CTP.CaseA_.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">A Call to Prayer&nbsp;(Links to an external site.)<\/a>.&nbsp; In the discussion sessions this week, students will deliberate what the people of Hamtramck, MI should do. In the class session on Sept 30, additional discussion of deliberation (what it is, what it can accomplish, and what else is needed for good decision-making).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Oct 2:&nbsp;<\/strong>Habermas and Deliberative Democracy<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>J\u00fcrgen Habermas, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/canvas.tufts.edu\/courses\/9548\/files\/984000\/download?wrap=1\">The Public Sphere: An Encyclopedia Article,\u201d N<em>ew German Critique<\/em>, 3 (1974), pp. 49-55<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/canvas.tufts.edu\/courses\/9548\/files\/984000\/download?wrap=1\"><\/a><\/li><li>Lasse Thomassen,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/canvas.tufts.edu\/courses\/9548\/files\/984014\/download?wrap=1\"><em>Habermas: A guide for the perplexed<\/em>. A&amp;C Black, 2010, pp. 63-96, 111-130.<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/canvas.tufts.edu\/courses\/9548\/files\/984014\/download?wrap=1\"><\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Oct 7: Does deliberation work?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Dennis Thompson, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/pdfs.semanticscholar.org\/c57c\/652f3038844f542aade19ae8b7a248c5f26d.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Deliberative Democratic Theory and Empirical Political Science,\u201d&nbsp;(Links to an external site.)<\/a>&nbsp;Annual Review of Political Science<\/li><li>Michael A. Neblo et al., \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cambridge.org\/core\/journals\/american-political-science-review\/article\/who-wants-to-deliberateand-why\/B918F30F1EF25FEE40DFD8313BD83B79\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Who wants to deliberate\u2014and why?&nbsp;(Links to an external site.)<\/a>\u201d, American Political Science Review.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Oct 9:&nbsp;<\/strong><strong><em>Other forms of discourse: 1) testimony and empathy<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Lynn Sanders, \u201c&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/faculty.virginia.edu\/lsanders\/SB617_01.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Against Deliberation\u201d&nbsp;(Links to an external site.)<\/a><\/li><li>Emily McRae, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/canvas.tufts.edu\/courses\/9548\/files\/983992\/download?wrap=1\">Empathy, Compassion, and \u2018Exchanging Self and Other\u2019 in Indo-Tibetan Buddhist Ethics<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/canvas.tufts.edu\/courses\/9548\/files\/983992\/download?wrap=1\"><\/a>\u201d for Handbook of Philosophy of Empathy (Routledge), edited by Heidi Maibom, 2017.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>[Oct 14: vacation day]<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Oct 15 (Tuesday):<\/strong><strong><em>&nbsp;Other forms of discourse: 2) dissent<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Tommie Shelby, &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/canvas.tufts.edu\/courses\/9548\/files\/984010\/download?wrap=1\">Impure Dissent<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/canvas.tufts.edu\/courses\/9548\/files\/984010\/download?wrap=1\"><\/a>&#8221; from&nbsp;<em>Dark Ghettoes: Injustice, Dissent and Reform<\/em>&nbsp;(2016)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Oct 16:&nbsp; How can we design for deliberation?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Tina Nabatchi, Matt Leighninger,&nbsp;<em>Public Participation for 21st Century Democracy&nbsp;<\/em>(2015),&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/canvas.tufts.edu\/courses\/9548\/files\/983960\/download?wrap=1\">pp. 241-285 and 305-324&nbsp;<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/canvas.tufts.edu\/courses\/9548\/files\/983960\/download?wrap=1\"><\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Oct 21: Midterm in class<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Oct 23: Exclusion and Identity<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gutenberg.org\/files\/10\/10-h\/10-h.htm#The_Book_of_Nehemiah\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Book of Nehemiah&nbsp;(Links to an external site.)<\/a><\/li><li>Audre Lorde, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/collectiveliberation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Lorde_The_Masters_Tools.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Master\u2019s Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master\u2019s House.&nbsp;(Links to an external site.)<\/a><\/li><li>\u201dSteve Biko,&nbsp;&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/canvas.tufts.edu\/courses\/9548\/files\/983993\/download?wrap=1\">Black Consciousness and the Quest for a True Humanity<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/canvas.tufts.edu\/courses\/9548\/files\/983993\/download?wrap=1\"><\/a>&#8220;<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Oct 28: What happens when people experience diversity?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Craig et al., \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/journals.sagepub.com\/doi\/full\/10.1177\/0963721417727860\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Pitfalls and Promise of Increasing Racial Diversity: Threat, Contact, and Race Relations in the 21st Century&nbsp;(Links to an external site.)<\/a>,\u201d Current Directions in Psychological Science<\/li><li>Elizabeth Levy Paluck, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cambridge.org\/core\/services\/aop-cambridge-core\/content\/view\/142C913E7FA9E121277B29E994124EC5\/S2398063X18000258a.pdf\/contact_hypothesis_reevaluated.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The contact hypothesis re-evaluated,&nbsp;(Links to an external site.)<\/a>\u201d Behavioural Public Policy<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Oct 30 Guest lecture on political hobbyism (Eitan Hersch)&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Eitan Hersh, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/canvas.tufts.edu\/courses\/9548\/files\/1038707\/download?wrap=1\">The Problem with Participatory Democracy is the Participant<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/canvas.tufts.edu\/courses\/9548\/files\/1038707\/download?wrap=1\"><\/a>s,\u201d New York Times.<\/li><li>Eitan Hersh, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/canvas.tufts.edu\/courses\/9548\/files\/1038706\/download?wrap=1\">In a Deep Blue or Red State? You Can Still Influence Politics<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/canvas.tufts.edu\/courses\/9548\/files\/1038706\/download?wrap=1\"><\/a>,\u201d New York Times<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Social Movements&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Nov 4:&nbsp;<\/strong>Identity and the Common Good<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Lilla, Mark Lilla, &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/11\/20\/opinion\/sunday\/the-end-of-identity-liberalism.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The End of Identity Politics&nbsp;(Links to an external site.)<\/a>,&#8221;&nbsp;<em>The New York Times<\/em>, Nov. 18, 2016<\/li><li>Todd Gitlin, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/harpers.org\/archive\/1993\/09\/the-left-lost-in-the-politics-of-identity\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Left Lost in Identity Politics&nbsp;(Links to an external site.)<\/a>,\u201d Harpers, Sept. 1993&nbsp;<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/canvas.tufts.edu\/courses\/9548\/files\/983988\/download?wrap=1\">Transcript of an encounter: Hillary Clinton and Julius Jones<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/canvas.tufts.edu\/courses\/9548\/files\/983988\/download?wrap=1\"><\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Nov 6:&nbsp;<\/strong>Social Movements&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Charles Tilly,&nbsp;&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/canvas.tufts.edu\/courses\/9548\/files\/983978\/download?wrap=1\">Social Movements,<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/canvas.tufts.edu\/courses\/9548\/files\/983978\/download?wrap=1\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/canvas.tufts.edu\/courses\/9548\/files\/983978\/download?wrap=1\">&nbsp;1768-2004<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/canvas.tufts.edu\/courses\/9548\/files\/983978\/download?wrap=1\"><\/a>&#8220;<\/li><li>Marshall Ganz,&nbsp;&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/canvas.tufts.edu\/courses\/9548\/files\/983950\/download?wrap=1\">Why David Sometimes Wins: Strategic Capacity in Social Movements<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/canvas.tufts.edu\/courses\/9548\/files\/983950\/download?wrap=1\"><\/a>,&#8221;&nbsp;in Jeff Goodwin and James M. Jasper, Rethinking Social Movements: Structure, Meaning, and Emotion (Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2004) pp.177-98.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>(Nov 11: no class)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Nov 13:&nbsp;<\/strong>Community Organizing<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Schutz, A., &amp; Sandy, M. (2011).&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/books.google.com\/books?hl=en&amp;lr=&amp;id=HdrHAAAAQBAJ&amp;oi=fnd&amp;pg=PP1&amp;dq=introduction+to+community+organizing&amp;ots=Wq_87KuVJo&amp;sig=PGL1LhEbi91EsZ-KqjTwqw9-0t4#v=onepage&amp;q=introduction%20to%20community%20organizing&amp;f=false\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>Collective action for social change: An introduction to community organizing.&nbsp;<\/em>&nbsp;(Links to an external site.)<\/a>New York: Palgrave MacMillian. [Note: We will upload a PDF&#8211;link to Google Books in&nbsp; place for now].<\/li><li>Cort\u00e9s, Ernesto. 1994. Reweaving the social fabric.&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/bostonreview.net\/archives\/BR19.3\/cortes.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>The Boston Review<\/em>&nbsp;(Links to an external site.)<\/a>&nbsp;19 (3).&nbsp;<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Nov 18:<\/strong>&nbsp;Nonviolent Campaigns<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Martin Luther King,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/canvas.tufts.edu\/courses\/9548\/files\/983953\/download?wrap=1\">Stride Toward Freedom, chapters 3, 4, and 5.<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/canvas.tufts.edu\/courses\/9548\/files\/983953\/download?wrap=1\"><\/a><\/li><li>Timothy Garton Ash,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/canvas.tufts.edu\/courses\/9548\/files\/984009\/download?wrap=1\">\u201c<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/canvas.tufts.edu\/courses\/9548\/files\/984009\/download?wrap=1\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/canvas.tufts.edu\/courses\/9548\/files\/984009\/download?wrap=1\">Velvet Revolution: The Prospects,\u201d<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/canvas.tufts.edu\/courses\/9548\/files\/984009\/download?wrap=1\"><\/a>&nbsp;New York Review of Books, December 3, 2009&nbsp;<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Nov 20:&nbsp;<\/strong>&nbsp;<strong>Gandhi<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Bikhu Parekh,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/canvas.tufts.edu\/courses\/9548\/files\/983959\/download?wrap=1\"><em>Gandhi<\/em>, Chapter 4 (&#8220;Satyagraha&#8221;), pp. 51-62;<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/canvas.tufts.edu\/courses\/9548\/files\/983959\/download?wrap=1\"><\/a><\/li><li>Gandhi,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/canvas.tufts.edu\/courses\/9548\/files\/983986\/download?wrap=1\">Satyagraha<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/canvas.tufts.edu\/courses\/9548\/files\/983986\/download?wrap=1\"><\/a>&nbsp;(Ahmedabad: Navajivan Publishing Co., 1951), excerpts.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Nov 25: Gandhi continued<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Gandhi, Notes, May 22, 1924 &#8211; August 15, 1924, in&nbsp;<em>The Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi<\/em>&nbsp;(Electronic Book), New Delhi, Publications Division Government of India, 1999, 98 volumes,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/canvas.tufts.edu\/courses\/9548\/files\/984012\/download?wrap=1\">vol. 28, pp. 307-310<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/canvas.tufts.edu\/courses\/9548\/files\/984012\/download?wrap=1\"><\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>[Nov 27: no class]<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Dec 2: Does nonviolence work? Does violence work?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Erica Chenoweth and Maria J. Stephan,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/canvas.tufts.edu\/courses\/9548\/files\/984011\/download?wrap=1\"><em>Why Civil Resistance Works: The Strategic Logic of Nonviolent Conflict<\/em><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/canvas.tufts.edu\/courses\/9548\/files\/984011\/download?wrap=1\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/canvas.tufts.edu\/courses\/9548\/files\/984011\/download?wrap=1\">,<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/canvas.tufts.edu\/courses\/9548\/files\/984011\/download?wrap=1\"><\/a>chapters 1 and 2&nbsp;<\/li><li>Enos et al., \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/scholar.harvard.edu\/files\/renos\/files\/enoskaufmansands.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Can Violent Protest Change Local Policy Support? Evidence from the Aftermath of the 1992 Los Angeles Riot&nbsp;(Links to an external site.)<\/a>,\u201d American Political Science Review<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Dec. 4: Student presentations in class<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Dec 9: Student presentations in class<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Dec 17: Final exam (3:30-5:30 in the Rabb Room)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=21209\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"573\" height=\"585\" src=\"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/images\/Screen-Shot-2019-09-02-at-9.54.53-AM.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-21771\" srcset=\"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/images\/Screen-Shot-2019-09-02-at-9.54.53-AM.png 573w, https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/images\/Screen-Shot-2019-09-02-at-9.54.53-AM-294x300.png 294w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 573px) 100vw, 573px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Conceptual Outline of the Course <br>(click for more information)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fall 19 Civic Studies 0020-01 Intro to Civic Studies Instructors: Peter Levine, Brian Schaffner. 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