<p>Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Whether regarding digital communication, mass transportation, climate change, or international war, the idea that individuals and communities have become interconnected is beyond doubt. Under these circumstances, consideration of what moral, ethical, socioeconomic, and political challenges are faced in the 21st century; how people understand themselves as citizens not only of one nation, but also of this simultaneously divided and shared world; and how European artists and thinkers have negotiated between patriotism and cosmopolitanism since antiquity, and their American counterparts in the 20th and 21st centuries. Interdisciplinary approach to the examination of cosmopolitanism, also known as global citizenship or world citizenship. This concept serves as a focal point for elucidating humanistic and social scientific inquiries into universal norms, patriotic sentiments, cultural and racial diversities, and empathic identifications with strangers in need. P/NP or letter grading.</p>

European Languages and Transcultural Studies

College of Letters and Science

General Education — Philosophical & Linguistic Analysis (Arts & Humanities)

General Education — Literacy & Cultural Analysis (Arts & Humanities)

ELTS 56 - Cosmopolitanism

Cosmopolitanism

Upon successful completion of the course, students can expect to have grasped varying conceptions of cosmopolitanism in history, philosophy, literature, politics, sociology, and film. They will have engaged in continuous debates on cosmopolitan promises and pitfalls while evaluating creative works and scholarly publications in Europe and North America. At the end of the course, they will be able to produce a scholarly informed, self-reflective, and creative project about cosmopolitanism. 

Students examine the historical development of cosmopolitanism vis-à-vis patriotism or nationalism over European intellectual history. Thus, they learn how European artists and thinkers have organized cultures and societies since antiquity. With each reading, the course focuses on a specific historical or societal problem and explores ways of addressing it with quantitative and qualitative analyses.

Students examine social scientific inquiries into global citizenship on the basis of data, across societies, and for problem-solving skills.

Introduces students to fundamental philosophical issues pertaining to cosmopolitanism. These inquiries include, among others, ethical and moral dilemmas when global citizenship is pitted against national citizenship.

The course introduces students to develop perspectives and intellectual skills that are necessary for thinking critically about their situation in the world as citizens of a nation and as fellow human beings. They study the work of artists and writers who exemplify longstanding efforts in Europe and on this side of the Atlantic to explain, translate, and transform diverse experiences of the world’s humanity via literature and film.

General Catalog

Cosmopolitanism

ELTS 56

5 units