Courses

The course offerings for the graduate politics program seek to give students a comprehensive view of the major political movements and philosophies of the Western world, from Herodotus to today.

Courses Include:

• 6311. Thucydides
• 6312. Plutarch/Augustine/Machiavelli
• 6321. Lincoln
• 6323. Constitutional Law
• 6324. Public Policy
• 6325. American Foreign Policy
• 6326. The Presidency
• 6327. Civil Rights
• 6328. Congress
• 6334. Social Contract Theory
• 6335. Kant/Hegel/Marx/Nietzsche
• 6356. American Political Thought
• 6357. U.S. Constitution
• 6372. Plato’s Republic
• 6376. Aristotle’s Ethics
• 6377-6379. Special Studies
• 6381. Machiavelli
• 6384. Hobbes
• 6387. Locke
• 6388. Rousseau
• 6V99. Graduate Reading
• 7351. Directed Readings and Research
• 7370. Herodotus
• 7371. Xenophon
• 7374. Dialogues of Plato (to be selected by the instructor)
• 7376. Aristotle’s Politics
• 7380. Medieval Political Philosophy
• 7388. American Regime
• 7394. Nietzsche
• 7678. Thesis Research
• 8385. Spinoza
• 8396. Shakespeare Seminar