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Summer 2019 | POL 1201 Section 001: Political Ideas (82908)
- 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
Tue,
Thu 05:30PM - 08:00PM
UMTC, West Bank
Carlson School of Management 1-132
- Enrollment Status:
Open (18 of 30 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To explore these topics, the field turns to key texts, as well as to political and social events and other media (film, historical documents, etc.).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/?joh12819+POL1201+Summer2019
- Class Description:
Politics requires a constant negotiation between commonality and difference. Political societies undertake the twin tasks of holding together a community based on a shared set of common beliefs, practices, or shared backgrounds, while also negotiating how differences across the larger community disrupt stability and challenge the common order. This course reads a wide selection of historical and more contemporary texts - from Plato, to Jean-Jacques Rousseau, W.E.B. Du Bois, James Baldwin, and Audre Lorde - to investigate the political dynamics that cut across this commonality/difference relationship, as well as how different thinkers have sought to negotiate these dynamics.
- Learning Objectives:
- Students will develop skills in reading complex and theoretical texts. Writing skills focused on developing textual analysis and reconstruction.
- Class Format:
- 40% Lecture
50% Class Discussion
10% Group Work
- Workload:
- 50-75 Pages Reading Per Week
9-14 Pages Writing Per Term
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/82908/1195
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 28 March 2019
ClassInfo Links - Summer 2019 Political Science Classes