About:

About this class:

This is a 3-week virtual class using the Zoom platform.

Mondays: February 20, 27, and March 6 - 7-8:30 pm CST

Some of the classic texts that will inform our class conversations are The Republic by Plato, Utopia by Thomas More and After Utopia by Judith Shklar. The driving question is how do we create a shared reality rooted, but not mired, in the messiness of human nature? We will end the course by writing a contemporary interpretation of Federalist 51.

Instructor bio:

Serge Danielson-Francois is an educator at Academy of the Sacred Heart in Bloomfield Hills, MI.

Humanities North Dakota classes and events are funded in part by the National Endowment for the Humanities.

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