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3.00 Credits
This course focuses on the modern tradition of Western political theory.It carefully examines the work of four thinkers: Karl Marx, Max Weber, Friederich Nietzsche, and Michel Foucault.Each of these theorists presents a critical assessment of the nature and value of modern society's cherished ideals of social and economic progress, secularization, and scientific reason, and individual autonomy and liberty.This course explores and evaluates these controversial critiques of life in the modern age.Three credits.
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This course introduces students to the concepts of peace and justice, the connections between them, and the relationship of these concepts to the idea of faith.The course focuses on case studies beginning with an analysis of the crisis of America's cities and finds the causes in de-industrialization and its resulting poverty, which is compared to the poverty in developing nations.In both cases, the course views poverty as the effect of unjust economic and social structures including exaggerated military budgets at home and the militarization of developing countries.Examining these fundamental problems in peace and justice, according to the principles of Marxism, liberalism, and Catholicism, provides a theoretical basis for the study.Each of these traditions has its own perspective for understanding these problems and for responding to them.In this way the course provides an awareness of the major problems in peace and justice as well as an understanding of the different ways to think about them.Three credits.
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This course examines the nature and function of utopian thinking and utopian communities.What is the value of utopian reflection What forms of critical thinking and imaginative speculation does it enable What are the limits to or dangers of utopian thought and practice What kinds of challenges do utopian communities face This course explores and critically assesses utopian, dystopian, and anti-utopian themes from utopian fiction, political theory, science fiction, and popular culture.The course includes an investigation into the possibilities and limitations of some recent attempts to build communities in the United States.Three credits.
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This course considers the philosophical roots of American political thought and the influence of the American revolutionaries, constitution-makers, Federalists, Jeffersonians, Jacksonians, Tocqueville, Civil War-makers, examiners of the welfare state, pragmatists, and new frontiersmen on the contemporary American mind and institutions.The course also covers challenges and reform of the American political system within the scope of political science through an application of the concepts of human nature, idealism, constitutional power, and nationalism.Three credits.
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This course examines the development of U.S.feminist theory from the 1960s to the present.Students explore the similarities and differences among several approaches to feminist theorizing that emerged from the U.S.women's movement, including liberal, radical, socialist, and postmodernist feminism, and the feminisms of women of color .This course meets the U.S. diversity requirement. Three credits.
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This course surveys selected industrialized and non-industrialized nations, exploring the relationship between cultural and socioeconomic conditions and political behavior, and illustrating some of the basic concepts and methods of comparative political analysis. This course meets the world diversity requirement. Three credits.
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This course primarily examines the political belief systems in the United States including conservatism, liberalism, democratic socialism, and the idea of industrial policy.It analyzes these "isms" with reference to democracy's ability to deal with the contemporary problems of American society.It also explores Marxism in terms of the basic political and economic ideas of Marx and Engels as well as the modifications made in their system by Lenin; discusses the basic concepts of racism; and briefly analyzes the meaning of totalitarianism.Three credits
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This course provides a careful treatment and evaluation of the social and political thought of Karl Marx.In addition, the course examines the intellectual environment in which Marx worked and concludes with some discussion of contemporary approaches to Marxist thought.Three credits.
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This course views the experience of conflict and cooperation among the nations of the modern world in terms of the principles of realpolitik, morality, international law, and international organization, giving special attention to the dynamics of the so-called "new world order" that followed the Cold War.The class simulates possible future conflicts.Three credits.
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This course reviews U.S.involvement in world affairs from the 1930s to the present, with special attention to the rigors and logic of the Cold War.Students discuss constitutional and other factors in the making of foreign policy and debate major contemporary policies and commitments.Three credits.
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