POL 3252W is also offered in Fall 2023
POL 3252W is also offered in Spring 2023
POL 3252W is also offered in Fall 2021
Fall 2019 | POL 3252W Section 001: Revolution, Democracy, and Empire: Modern Political Thought (32949)
- 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
Wed,
Fri 11:15AM - 12:30PM
UMTC, West Bank
Blegen Hall 235
- Enrollment Status:
Open (49 of 55 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:
- Instructor: Professor Anurag Sinha http://classinfo.umn.edu/?POL3252W+Fall2019
- Class Description:
- Early Modern Political Thought - Professor Yves Winter This course introduces students to early modern European political philosophy and political thought from the Renaissance to the 18th century. Early modern political philosophy develops in some of the most turbulent and contentious epochs of European history, in a period shaped by religious warfare, by the demise of the Catholic Church's monopoly on truth and interpretation, by the emergence of the modern state and the capitalist mode of production, by the rise and fall of absolutism, and by the exploration and colonization of the Americas. In this course, we will discuss the crisis of political authority and the disinteration of medieval understandings of solidarity and community. We will study how political theorists and philosophers in Europe responded to this crisis, what proposals they developed to reconstitute political order and to address the fragmentation and factionalization of political and religious communities. The trajectory of this course will take us from the renewed interest in interpretation and reading generated by the Renaissance to the revolutionary demands for popular participation in the 18th century. We will examine the relations between practices of interpretation, claims of political authority, and the problem of sovereignty. Among the authors we will read in this course are Niccolo Machiavelli, Martin Luther, Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau.
- Grading:
- 20% Final Exam
60% Reports/Papers
10% Class Participation
10% Other Evaluation Other Grading Information: Late papers will be docked one third of a letter grade for every day late, including weekends. Please note that students who do not complete all assignments or otherwise fail to meet these requirements will not receive a passing grade.
- Exam Format:
- Take-home final examination.
- Class Format:
- 50% Lecture
50% Discussion
- Workload:
- 50-100 Pages Reading Per Week
15-18 Pages Writing Per Term
1 Exam(s)
3 Paper(s)
Other Workload: Online discussion: Students are required to post at least TWO questions and at least TWO responses to the online discussion forum throughout the semester.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/32949/1199
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 4 April 2013
ClassInfo Links - Fall 2019 Political Science Classes