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Course Atlas—Summer 2008

Please Note: The information given in the Course Atlas is subject to change.
For final schedule information, please refer to OPUS.

POLS 120: Introduction to Comparative Politics
Staton, TWTh (7/1/2008 - 8/6/2008) 12:00-2:15, MAX: 25

Content: This course is an introduction to important concepts, themes, and approaches in the comparative study of politics. Students will gain an understanding of how politics is organized in different societies, how political institutions are the product of choices made by individuals in specific contexts, and how institutions interact with social and economic factors to produce policies and outcomes. The course is organized around questions that highlight interesting phenomena or puzzles that call for some kind of explanation. By examining some proposed answers to these questions, we will cover areas in which comparative research has been the most active. By the end of the semester, students will have obtained a broad perspective of the field and the opportunity to relate some of their own interests to existing concerns of other scholars.

Texts: TBA

Particulars: TBA

POLS 301: Classical Political Thought
Cody, TWTh (7/1/2008 - 8/6/2008) 2:30-4:45, MAX: 25

Content: The purpose of this course is to introduce students to the thought of major figures of classical political philosophy. Students will study the roots of Western culture by reading selections from the works of Plato, Aristotle, and Cicero. In addition, the students will be encouraged to critically analyze the political thought of these Greek and Roman philosophers.

Texts: Plato & Aristophanes:  Four Texts On Socrates, West & West, trans. (Cornell), Plato:  The Republic, Bloom, trans. (Basic Books), Aristotle:  The Politics, Lord, trans. (Chicago), Cicero:  The Republic; The Laws,  Keyes, trans. (Harvard)

Particulars: One test, weekly quizzes, attendance and participation, final examination.

POLS 302: Modern Political Thought
Shapiro, TWTh (5/20/2008 - 6/25/2008) 2:30-4:45, MAX: 25

Content: A study of primary sources of the great thinkers of modern political thought, from Machiavelli to Nietzsche. 

Texts:
Democracy in America, De Tocqueville (University of Chicago Press)
Philosophy of History, Hegel (Dover Publications)
Leviathan (Parts I & II), Hobbes (Pearson Education)
Second Treatise of Government, Locke (Pearson Education)
The Prince, Machiavelli (University of Chicago Press)
The Communist Manifesto, Marx (International Publishers Company) Use & Abuse of History, Nietzsche (Pearson Education) First & Second Discourses, Rousseau (St. Martin's Press)

Particulars: Quizzes on each author and a final examination will be the basis of the grade.

POLS 385 WR: International Political Economy
Reinhardt, MTWThF (5/20/2008 - 6/25/2008) 11:30-12:50, MAX: 25

Content:

Texts: Thomas Oatley, International Political Economy: Interests and Institutions in the Global Economy, 3rd ed. (New York: Pearson, 2008)

Particulars: TBA

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