PSCI 300
Totalitarianism: Hannah Arendt and Critics
Fall 2025
Division II
W Writing Skills
D Difference, Power, and Equity
Cross-listed
INTR 300 / WGSS 316
Class Details
This seminar focuses on the topic of totalitarianism and the writings of Hannah Arendt and her critics. Texts include: The Origins of Totalitarianism; Eichmann in Jerusalem; Crisis of the Republic; The Banality of Evil. Also critical texts of Arendt such as K. Sophia Belle’s Hannah Arendt and the Negro Question; Matthias Haussler, The Herero Genocide.
The Class:
Format: seminar
Limit: 19
Expected: 12-15
Class#: 2003
Grading: yes pass/fail option, no fifth course option
Limit: 19
Expected: 12-15
Class#: 2003
Grading: yes pass/fail option, no fifth course option
Requirements/Evaluation:
Three analytical papers, two group presentations.
Prerequisites:
Some back ground in historical occupations, racially-fashioned war, political theory.
Enrollment Preferences:
juniors then seniors
Unit Notes:
Analyses, political/social critiques.
Distributions:
Division II
Writing Skills
Difference, Power, and Equity
Notes:
This course is cross-listed and the prefixes carry the following divisional credit:
INTR 300 Division II PSCI 300 Division II WGSS 316 Division II
INTR 300 Division II PSCI 300 Division II WGSS 316 Division II
WS Notes:
This seminar focuses on theoretical and analytical writing.
DPE Notes:
The seminar examines repression of populations based on racial and ethnic discrimination and colonialism and genocide.
Attributes:
PSCI Political Theory Courses
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PSCI 300 - 01 (F) SEM Totalitarianism
PSCI 300 - 01 (F) SEM TotalitarianismDivision II W Writing Skills D Difference, Power, and EquityW 1:10 pm - 3:50 pm
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