FSEM1010-13.FSEM: Red States, Blue States.F16.LeCount,Ryan

Faculty Name

Ryan LeCount

Document Type

Syllabi

School

CLA

Department

SOC

Course Subject

FSEM

Course Number

1010

Course Section

13

Course Title

FSEM: Red States, Blue States

Academic Term and Year

Fall 2016

Credits

4.00

Area of Study

FSEM

Course Description

Do all liberals drink lattes? Do all conservative own guns? When it comes to national politics, why do we say that some states are “Red” and others are “Blue?” Are the political cultures of these states really as different as these names might suggest? This First-Year Seminar is a Sociological examination of modern US politics, with particular attention to the social and demographic factors associated with political identity and behavior. Using the 2016 US Presidential election as a backdrop, students will learn about how political attitudes and behaviors are distributed across the US population and what those distributions mean for modern politics.

Recommended Citation

LeCount, Ryan, "FSEM1010-13.FSEM: Red States, Blue States.F16.LeCount,Ryan" (2016). Historic Syllabi -- full text access limited to internal Hamline administrative staff only. 11479.
https://digitalcommons.hamline.edu/syllabi/11479