Political theory for students with little or no previous course work in the area. Focuses on one or more important political concepts or phenomena (e.g., power, freedom, or political ambition) and as entry-point into various approaches and literatures within the field.

The first two-thirds of the course is a selective survey of the history of Western political thought covering works by Plato, Aristotle, Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, and Marx, among others. The final one-third of the course introduces students to John Rawls’s A Theory of Justice and other works of contemporary political theory.

Political theory for students with little or no previous coursework in the area. Focuses on one or more important political concepts or phenomena (e.g., power, freedom, or political ambition) and as entry-point into various approaches and literatures within the field.