Honors Institute
Honors Courses
Political Science |
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| POLI 3H :: HONORS INTRODUCTION TO POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY/POLITICAL THEORY | 5 Units | |||||
| Analysis of the history of political thought, the development of various forms of political ideologies and their manifestation in forms of the state. Philosophical formulations of concepts of state of nature, natural law, natural rights, civil and political society explored as integral parts of political philosophies of: Plato and Aristotle, Augustine and Aquinas, Machiavelli and Hobbes, Locke and Rousseau, Bentham and Mill, Hegel, Marx and Gramsci. The honors course is a full seminar with advanced teaching methods focusing on major writing, reading, and research assignments, student oral class presentations, group discussions and interactions. | ||||||
| Advisory: Not open to students with credit in POLI 3. | ||||||
| Repeatability: Not Repeatable. | ||||||
| 5 hours lecture. (60 hours total per quarter.) | ||||||
| 17³Ô¹Ï GE Area: Social & Behavioral Sciences | ||||||
| Transferability: CSU and UC | ||||||
| Transfer GE: Information regarding how this course is applied toward CSU GE/Breadth or IGETC certification is available at: foothill.edu/transfer/forms/current_transfer_ge_guide.pdf | ||||||
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