<p>Does anyone know anything about this course or the instructor W. Gillis?</p>
<p>The course takes place the 2nd eight weeks of the spring semester.
The course description for Gillis’ class is as follows:</p>
<p>Students explore ideas about citizenship, national identity, and the
social contract in the broader Americas. What makes us “Americans”?
How de we define “America”? How does national identity compete with
and relate to other forms of identity, such as social status or
class, religious association, gender and sexuality, and racial or
ethnic description?</p>
<p>A couple of other sections of the same course have the following descriptions:</p>
<p>Innouye’s two sections are described as follows:</p>
<p>Students compare and contrast ideas about citizenship, national
identity, and the social contract across the hemisphere; focusing on
the most basic building block of the nation-state: the formal terms
of membership in civil society. Students situate the meaning of the
concept in the United States within a hemispheric context.</p>
<p>Gillis is apparently a new professor at Indiana University this year.</p>
<p>Just took the final, not with this professor though. Go ahead and message me i can give you some more information, if you’d like.</p>