PLAP American Politics:

PLAP 424E,  Politics of The Family, Yoest,

TR 1100-1215

Course Description: One of the more prominent, on-going public policy debates concerns a cluster of social and economic issues generally referred to as “family issues.” This class will examine several of those issues in the context of the over-arching debate over the importance of the family to the polis. Rather than emphasize any one particular issue, this course is designed to provide a familiarity with the contours of the larger political discussion related to the relationship between individuals, the family as an institution, and the state. Class assignments are designed to provide the student practical experience with different modes of debating these issues in real-world political discourse.