Spring 2019  |  POL 1201 Section 001: Political Ideas (52131)

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
Freshman Full Year Registration
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
01/22/2019 - 05/06/2019
Tue, Thu 09:45AM - 11:00AM
UMTC, West Bank
Anderson Hall 270
Enrollment Status:
Open (109 of 116 seats filled)
Also Offered:
Course Catalog Description:
This course serves as an introduction to the study of political theory. Political theory analyzes the meaning and significance of fundamental concepts in politics. Starting from such basic concerns as the nature of politics, humans, power and justice, political theorists explore how these basic starting assumptions organize the norms, practices, and institutions of political and social order. To explore these topics, the field turns to key texts, as well as to political and social events and other media (film, historical documents, etc.). In this introductory course, students will investigate some of the basic texts in political theory, with the goal of learning how to read texts more analytically and to address fundamental questions in political theory. Among the topics that might be the nature of justice and injustice, political obligation and civil disobedience, democracy and other forms of governance. Students who complete this course will understand the deep issues about the nature of politics, will have learned to read and to analyze complex texts. They will also have had the opportunity to reflect upon their own ethical engagement in political life and upon the ways in which historically, political ideas change.
Class Notes:
http://classinfo.umn.edu/?luxon+POL1201+Spring2019
Class Description:
This course examines different models of political rule. What models of politics, throughout history, have structure those relations of rulers and ruled? How does each model for rule try to grapple with questions of inequality, power and domination, justice and equality? To answer these questions, we will range across the globe (looking at examples that bear on contemporary politics both in the US and elsewhere), and also across history.
Grading:
50% Reports/Papers
20% Journal
30% Reflection Papers
Class Format:
70% Lecture
30% Discussion
Workload:
50 Pages Reading Per Week
15 Pages Writing Per Term
4 Paper(s)
Other Workload: 2 of the papers will be 1-2 page micro-papers; the others will be 4-5 pages each
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/52131/1193
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
19 December 2018

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