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Aug 31, 2025
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POL 323 - Politics of Utopias and Dystopias (3)This course is designed to have students explore concepts around power, politics, and social organization through the study of various utopias and dystopias. Utopian and dystopian fiction has long served as both literature and radical thought experiments reflecting on forms of political community. This course will study various utopias and dystopias to learn how they are a response to their particular social and political context, but also how they offer insights into what is possible-both the good and the bad-with various forms of political and social structures. This course provides a survey of utopias and dystopias as a form of speculative fiction that hovers between fantasy novel, political pamphlet, satire, and science fiction. We will do all of this while paying special attention to how the visions of idyllic utopian worlds, and catastrophic dystopian worlds, can help us to better understand our own world, prevailing power structures, and how we relate to and interact with other people.
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