Center for Civics, Culture, & Society
For more information, contact civicscenter@miamioh.edu.
The American promise holds only if the next generation knows and understands it. One of just five state-funded civics centers in Ohio, Miami’s Center for Civics, Culture, and Society advances this mission. The center grounds the Miami community in the history, traditions, ideas, and texts that shaped the American constitutional order. Every Miami undergraduate will engage with coursework in American history or its equivalent, supported and guided by the center. By championing free and rigorous inquiry, civil discourse, intellectual diversity, and respectful exchange of ideas, the center prepares emerging leaders who listen to all voices and strengthen Ohio in government, industry, and civic life.
Civic Thought Minor
The minor in Civic Thought combines a deep focus on the foundations of republican self-government in the United States and in the Western tradition more broadly with an attention to the cultivation of the habits and dispositions necessary for civic life.
Program Requirements
(15 semester hours)
| Code | Title | Credit Hours |
|---|---|---|
| Required Courses | ||
| CIV 105 | The American Political Tradition | 3 |
| or CIV 205 | Dimensions of American Civic Thought | |
| CIV 201 | Introduction to Civic Thought | 3 |
| Select three of the following (at least two at the 300 or 400 level): | 9 | |
| Constitutionalism: Ancient and Modern | ||
| The Art of Statesmanship | ||
| Rhetoric and Civic Life | ||
| Free and Civil Speech | ||
| Core Texts in Civic Thought | ||
| Total Credit Hours | 15 | |
Note: All minors require nine unique hours that are not used toward completion of other program requirements.