POLS 331 Political Philosophy
This course focuses upon the origin and development of the key concepts which have molded our modern world by using original works of political philosophy, covering theorists as diverse as Plato, Aristotle, Machiavelli, Descartes, Hobbes, Rousseau, Mill, Foucault, Arendt, and Marcuse. Each course offering will have some variation with respect to these and other authors. The goals of this course are: (1) to improve the student's own analytic-philosophical reasoning; (2) to gain a solid foundation of these key thinkers; and (3) to apply their concepts to the "modern" world. Sophomore status or above is recommended. Three credit hours.