Undergraduate students should not just study political theory. Theyshould theorize. Writing-intensive political theory courses can helpthem do so sooner. By preparing an original political vision, autopia or a dystopia, throughout the course of the semester,students read and compare the texts of the course against their ownemerging texts and move into more critical and systematic politicalanalysis. As a political theorist, my focus is not so much onutopias or dystopias as a subject of study per se,but on tapping into the creative freedom, critical distance, andhard-hitting insights of these traditions while teaching writing. Itake seriously Berlin's above-stated concern for the “place and modeof operation” conveyed to the student through the process oflearning to write. Visionary writing accelerates students'appreciation of the complexity of another's theory, but also oftheir own standpoint and capacity for agency and judgment.Khristina Haddad is assistant professor,department of political science, Moravian College. She teaches awriting-intensive course on visionary political writing and isaffiliated with German Studies and Women's Studies. Her researchinterests include politics of time and temporality, HannahArendt, political action, fear, feminist theory, women'sstudies, and, in particular, the politics of women'shealth.I am greatly indebtedto friends and colleagues who helped me along at various stagesincluding (in alphabetical order) Robert Humanick, Eleanor Linn,Bob Mayer, Karla Morales, Laurie Naranch, Gary Olson, MiguelinaOrtiz, Martha Reid, Joanna Vecchiarelli Scott, Lyman TowerSargent, Joel Wingard, and Elizabeth Wingrove. Thanks go also toall those whose dedicated work inspires student writers andteachers of writing at the Gayle Morris Sweetland Writing Centerat the University of Michigan, to helpful commentators at theSociety for Utopian Studies' Annual Meeting in Toronto, to twoanonymous reviewers at PS, and to three groupsof students who shared their visions with me.