2017-2018 College Catalog 
    
    Apr 18, 2024  
2017-2018 College Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

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PL 380 - The Western Political Tradition

3 Credits
This course provides students with a study of the leading ideas of the Western political tradition, focusing on such topics as justice, power, legitimacy, revolution, freedom, equality and forms of government - democracy especially. The course explores these issues and other concepts of political thought, drawing on major works in the Western tradition including Plato, Aristotle, Aquinas, Machiavelli, Hobbes, Rousseau, Paine, and Tocqueville. Lecture/discussion format in a reading and writing intensive course. (This course may also be taken as PS 380 .)



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