2022-2023 Catalog

FYS 014 Individualism in American Culture, Character, and Society

The term "individualism" has long been used to describe one of the distinctive qualities of Americans and of American culture. Using Alexis de Tocqueville's Democracy in America (1840) as the starting point this colloquium systematically examines expressions of individualism in American life past and present.

Instructor

Schneiderman