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Class number:
2949
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Title: Political Leadership & Policy |
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Department: Public Policy & Law |
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Career: Undergraduate |
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Component: Seminar |
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Session: Regular |
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Instructor's Permission Required: No |
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Grading Basis: Regular |
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Units: 1.00 |
| Enrollment limited to 7 |
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Current enrollment: 4 |
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Available seats: 3 |
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Start date: Tuesday, January 20, 2026 |
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End date: Friday, May 8, 2026 |
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Mode of Instruction: In Person |
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Schedule: TR: 6:30PM-7:45PM, SH - S204 |
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Instructor(s): Greenberg, Jack |
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Prerequisite(s): None |
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Distribution Requirement: Meets Social Sciences Requirement |
Course Description:
What does political leadership entail in American governance and public policy? This course examines the kinds of leadership different political and policy contexts incentivize and how various leaders “meet their moment,” exploring the practical and ethical considerations guiding consequential decision-making in the policymaking process. Leadership has long been an all-or-nothing proposition. “The history of the world is but the biography of great men,” argued Thomas Carlyle, to which Herbert Spencer replied, “the genesis of societies by the actions of great men, may be comfortably believed so long as, resting in general notions, you do not ask for particulars.” In this course, we will resist both essentialism and existentialism, tending away from the biographic and toward an appreciation for leadership's distinct role in American institutions. |