Course Description
Political Science 115D: Diversity, Disagreement, and Democracy, POL SCI 115D
Enrollment and waitlists for Spring Quarter 2023 will CLOSE on March 31, 2023 at 12:00pm.
Lecture, three or four hours; discussion, one hour (when scheduled). Designed for juniors/seniors. Can't we all just get along? Study of diversity, disagreement, and democracy. Diversity covers individual differences, cultural differences, and human universals; groupism, factionalism, and identity politics; multiculturalism and one-world ethics. Disagreement includes moral, ideological, and party-political disagreement; resolvable and irresolvable kinds of disagreement; groupthink and group polarization; herding and information cascades. Democracy stands for political mechanisms of information aggregation; political mechanisms to resolve differences, or to keep peace among people with irresolvable differences; emergence and spread of democracy, liberty, and rule of law. Letter grading.
Key Information
Credit: 4 quarter units /
2.67 semester units credit
UC Los Angeles, Political Science
Course Credit:
Upon successful completion, all online courses offered through cross-enrollment provide UC unit credit. Some courses are approved for GE, major preparation and/or, major credit or can be used as a substitute for a course at your campus.If "unit credit" is listed by your campus, consult your department, academic adviser or Student Affairs division to inquire about the petition process for more than unit credit for the course.
UC Berkeley:
Unit Credit
UC Davis:
General Education: SS.
UC Irvine:
General Education: III - Social and Behavioral Sciences
UC Los Angeles:
General Education: Upper division elective credit
UC Merced:
Upper Division Unit Credit (see your Academic Advisor)
UC Riverside:
General Education: Elective Units (POSC elective)
UC San Diego:
General Education: Revelle: 1 course for Social Science (no major overlap); Warren - May be counted depending on major/PofC/AS, Transfer students may use for UD noncontiguous GE depending on major; Sixth - 1 Social Analysis GE, Revelle - One social science; TMC 1 course toward upper division disciplinary breadth if noncontiguous to major;
Major Requirement: UCSD Political Science major, upper-division elective (letter grade of C- or better)
UC San Francisco:
Unit Credit
UC Santa Barbara:
General Education: Area D Social Science
UC Santa Cruz:
Unit Credit
Course Fees
None
More About The Course
See syllabus
Course Creator
S. Lohmann
Susanne Lohmann received her Ph.D. in economics and political economy from Carnegie Mellon University in 1991. She taught at Stanford University's Graduate School of Business before joining UCLA in 1993. Professor Lohmann was John M. Olin Fellow at Carnegie Mellon University; Alfred P. Sloan Fellow, also at Carnegie Mellon University; James and Doris McNamara Fellow at Stanford University; John M. Olin Fellow at the University of Southern California; Fellow of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences; and Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Professor Lohmann's articles on collective action and ce ntral banking have appeared in the American Economic Review, t he Amer ican Political Science Review, t he American Journal of Political Science, World Politics, International Organization , and other leading social science journals. Her current research focus is the political economy of research universities and higher education. Professor Lohmann is completing a book entitled Genius of Place: Universities and the Making of the Modern Mind , which is under contract with Cambridge University Press. She teaches courses on ethics and governance. Professor Lohmann is the recipient of two teaching awards.
Susanne Lohmann received her Ph.D. in economics and political economy from Carnegie Mellon University in 1991. She taught at Stanford University's Graduate School of Business before joining UCLA in 1993. Professor Lohmann was John M. Olin Fellow at Carnegie Mellon University; Alfred P. Sloan Fellow, also at Carnegie Mellon University; James and Doris McNamara Fellow at Stanford University; ...
Susanne Lohmann received her Ph.D. in economics and political economy from Carnegie Mellon University in 1991. She taught at Stanford University's Graduate School of Business before joining UCLA in 1993. Professor Lohmann was John M. Olin Fellow at Carnegie Mellon University; Alfred P. Sloan Fellow, also at Carnegie Mellon University; James and Doris McNamara Fellow at Stanford University; John M. Olin Fellow at the University of Southern California; Fellow of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences; and Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Professor Lohmann's articles on collective action and ce ntral banking have appeared in the American Economic Review, t he Amer ican Political Science Review, t he American Journal of Political Science, World Politics, International Organization , and other leading social science journals. Her current research focus is the political economy of research universities and higher education. Professor Lohmann is completing a book entitled Genius of Place: Universities and the Making of the Modern Mind , which is under contract with Cambridge University Press. She teaches courses on ethics and governance. Professor Lohmann is the recipient of two teaching awards.
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