Graduate Seminar: Freedom of Speech

POLI 7903/7991

T TH 1:30-4:30 pm (June 5 – July 19, 2018)

Course Description: It is one of the paradoxes of free speech that the case in its favor ought to begin with the case against it—first, because, as its advocates insist, truth is uncovered dialectically, and second, because those who can’t listen to the case against it will never be its true friends. In this seminar, we will encounter the case against and the case in favor of free speech, will examine the jurisprudence of the United States Supreme Court that has defined free speech in the course of the past century, and will explore salient issues concerning free speech in our day.

Note: Two course numbers are indicated because the seminar crosses sub-fields; thus, it can count for LSU students either as a course in American Government (POLI 7903) or in Political Theory (POLI 7991).  The courses meet concurrently; register for either one, but not both.

Instructor: James Stoner

Contact: poston@lsu.edu

Tuition and fee scholarships are available according to the following priorities: LSU POLI graduate students (including newly admitted students), other LSU graduate students, eligible LSU undergraduates and recent graduates, graduate students from other universities.  To apply, register for the course (if matriculated at LSU) or apply to register as a non-matriculating student HERE.  Then send an email to voegelin@lsu.edu by APRIL 15 requesting tuition, fees, or both.  (Note that LSU graduate students on assistantship in 2017-18 receive complimentary tuition for a summer course.)