POL 3251W is also offered in Spring 2024
POL 3251W is also offered in Fall 2022
POL 3251W is also offered in Spring 2022
Fall 2018 | POL 3251W Section 001: Power, Virtue, and Vice: Ancient and Early Modern Political Theory (33541)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Class Attributes:
UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
- Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
Mon,
Wed 04:00PM - 05:15PM
UMTC, West Bank
Blegen Hall 155
- Enrollment Status:
Open (52 of 55 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Ancient and early modern political thinking confronts basic questions of political order.
- Class Notes:
- http://classinfo.umn.edu/?POL3251W+Fall2018
- Class Description:
- Political theory exists as an academic discipline because people sometimes do really great and really horrible things to each other and its hard to understand why. This class surveys a 2,400 year long conversation on the topic, sampling notable contributions from Athens in the 5th century BCE to Florence in the 15th century of the Common Era.
- Grading:
- The course will have three 7-page papers worth 20% of your grade each, a take home final exam worth 20% of your grade, and weekly reading quizzes with 20% of your grade in total.
- Exam Format:
- Take home
- Class Format:
- Lecture (with lots of discussion)
- Workload:
- 120 pages of close reading per week.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/33541/1189
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 10 July 2018
ClassInfo Links - Fall 2018 Political Science Classes