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3.00 Credits
Explores various approaches to conflict resolution through readings, case studies, and simulations. Issues include negotiation and mediation, dealing with war criminals, tradeoffs between justice and peace, and the role of the international community.
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3.00 Credits
Intensive study of one or more major topics in political theory. Course may be retaken for credit if topic varies.
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Investigation of the relationship between ethical reasoning and political theory. Representative philosophers include Hume, Kant, Nietzsche, Mill, Sidgwick, Green, Ayer, Hare, and McIntyre.
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3.00 Credits
Examination of the nature and goals of classical political theorizing, with attention to its origins in ancient Athens and its diffusion through Rome. Representative writers include Plato, Aristotle, and Cicero.
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3.00 Credits
Examination of the theoretical underpinnings of democracy and some of the critiques of those foundations. Focus is on understanding some of the major theories of democracy and on how key democratic concepts are defined differently within these various traditions.
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3.00 Credits
Examination of Marx's indebtedness to Hegel, his early humanistic writings, and the vicissitudes of twentieth century vulgar Marxism and neo-Marxism in the works of Lenin, Lukacs, Korsch, Horkeimer, Marcuse, and Sartre.
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3.00 Credits
Investigation of the medieval encounter between philosophy and revealed religion (Islam, Judaism, and Christianity). Topics include the nature of political community and its role in cultivating virtue; relations between knowledge and power, and between politics and salvation; and the origins of modern ideas of law and freedom.
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3.00 Credits
Examination of the republican, civic humanistic tradition vs. the liberal, juridical tradition in American political thought from the founding to the present. Readings from Locke, Sidney, the Federalists and anti-Federalists, Spencer, Dewey, Rawls, and Sandel.
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3.00 Credits
Political thought from Machiavelli to the present, including such topics as moral and natural rights, positive and negative freedom, social contract theory, alienation and citizenship. Selected writings from Machiavelli, Locke, Rousseau, Mill, Marx, and Rawls.
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3.00 Credits
Introduction to feminist thought and its implications for the study and practice of political theory. Topics include feminist critiques of the Western political tradition and schools of feminist political theory. (CD)
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