POE-210 Social Democracy
Designed for majors and non-majors, this one-credit course explores what social democracy is, and what it is not. Through common readings, documentary films, and group projects, students learn to distinguish social democracy, democratic socialism, the European welfare state and liberal democracy. Case examples examine social democracy as practiced in Scandinavia as well as in the developing world. An underlying question running through the course concerns the suitability and possibility of social democracy for the United States.