The Course
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A Vanderbilt course helping students understand how democracies do and do not work.
The Vanderbilt Project on Unity & American Democracy blended political science, history, and currents events to develop a course to help students better understand how democracies do and do not work. Scholars, politicians, policy experts, and journalists visit campus to discuss their views about American democracy and provide unfiltered perspectives from both sides of the ideological spectrum.
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The Vanderbilt Project on Unity & American Democracy is a local public television program presented by WNPT
The Course
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The Vanderbilt Project on Unity & American Democracy blended political science, history, and currents events to develop a course to help students better understand how democracies do and do not work. Scholars, politicians, policy experts, and journalists visit campus to discuss their views about American democracy and provide unfiltered perspectives from both sides of the ideological spectrum.
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