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4.00 Credits
Lecture, 3 hours; extra reading, 3 hours. Prerequisite(s): upper-division standing or consent of instructor. A study of the major political philosophers of the social contract and their critics on issues such as individualism versus community, the roles of religion and of markets in politics, and the adequacy of contract theory for women and minorities.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, 3 hours; extra reading, 3 hours. Prerequisite(s): upperdivision standing or consent of instructor. Critically explores selected works of political theory from the eighteenth century to the present, with attention to issues such as freedom, utility, justice, nature, citizenship, toleration, equality and inequality, autonomy, democracy, power, rights, and identity.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, 3 hours; extra reading, 3 hours. Prerequisite(s): upperdivision standing or consent of instructor. A study of developments in American political thought from the seventeenth century to the present.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, 3 hours; extra reading, 2 hours; term paper, 1 hour. Prerequisite(s): upper-division standing or consent of instructor. Covers the development and scope of political science as a discipline. Addresses selected theoretical and methodological issues in contemporary political and social science. Credit is awarded for only one of POSC 114, POSC 114H, or POSC 114S.
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5.00 Credits
Lecture, 3 hours; discussion, 1 hour; extra reading, 3 hours. Prerequisite(s): upperdivision standing, admission to the University Honors Program; or consent of instructor. Honors course corresponding to POSC 114 and POSC 114S. Covers the development and scope of political science as a discipline. Adresses selected theoretical and methodological issues in contemporary political and social science. Satisfactory (S) or No Credit (NC) grading is not available. Credit is awarded for only one of POSC 114, POSC 114H, or POSC 114S.
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5.00 Credits
Lecture, 3 hours; discussion, 1 hour; extra reading, 2 hours; term paper, 1 hour. Prerequisite(s): upper-division standing or consent of instructor. Covers the development and scope of political science as a discipline. Addresses selected theoretical and methodological issues in contemporary political and social science. Credit is awarded for only one of POSC 114, POSC 114H, or POSC 114S.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, 3 hours; extra reading, 3 hours. Prerequisite(s): upper-division standing. Examines the political theory of utopian literature from ancient Greece to the present, with analysis of utopian and dystopian elements in each work. Typical authors include Plato, Thomas More, James Harrington, Ernest Callenbach, and Katherine Forrest.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, 3 hours; extra reading, 3 hours. Prerequisite(s): upper-division standing or consent of instructor. Examines debates about economic life, focusing on issues such as markets and marketization, labor, globalization, freedom, class, corporations, democracy, the welfare state, and power.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, 3 hours; extra reading, 3 hours. Prerequisite(s): upper-division standing or consent of instructor. A critical survey of the principal approaches to thinking about democracy since the World War II. May cover elite, pluralist, deliberative and participatory theories may be explored, along with questions about inclusiveness, and the optimal character and scope of democracy.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, 3 hours; individual study, 3 hours. Prerequisite(s): upper-division standing or POSC 010 or POSC 010H or consent of instructor. An examination of ethical issues in government, with emphasis on problems of representation in elected and administrative office, questions of political responsibility, and controversies regarding the role and nature of the public interest in government policy making.
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