POL 3252W is also offered in Fall 2023
POL 3252W is also offered in Spring 2023
POL 3252W is also offered in Fall 2021
Spring 2019 | POL 3252W Section 001: Revolution, Democracy, and Empire: Modern Political Thought (55178)
- 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
UMTC, West Bank
Blegen Hall 235
- Enrollment Status:
Closed (60 of 60 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Thinkers, discourses, events that craft understanding of revolution, democracy, empire. Emergence of democracy/democratic institutions alongside problems of religious zealotry, political hierarchy/exclusion, market economies, cultural marginalization. prereq: Suggested prerequisite 1201
- Class Notes:
- http://classinfo.umn.edu/?POL3252W+Spring2019
- Class Description:
- Modernity (roughly 1500-1900) marked a break from classical forms of thought in Europe. Spurred by the Scientific Revolution and the discovery of the New World, thinkers during this period changed how they understood human nature and human difference, how they understood politics and power, and the hopes they put in reason for politics. Various attempts have been made to define the time since that period as "postmodern", but the modern era leaves behind political structures and modes of thinking that remain with us to this day. This history and these ideas make us "modern."
- Grading:
- 50% Reports/Papers
30% Reflection Papers
20% Class Participation
- Exam Format:
- Take-home final examination.
- Class Format:
- 40% Lecture
40% Discussion
20% Small Group Activities
- Workload:
- 75 Pages Reading Per Week
15 Pages Writing Per Term
5 Paper(s)
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/55178/1193
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 27 November 2017
ClassInfo Links - Spring 2019 Political Science Classes