2023-2024 Catalog and Student Handbook

POLS 302 Modern Political Thought

Inquiries of modern philosophers into such questions as the use and abuse of power, the causes of alienation, and the relationship between theory and practice. Readings in Machiavelli, Hobbes, Locke,Rousseau, Marx, Nietzsche, and others.

Credits

3

Prerequisite

Complete COMM-203 or HONR-212; minimum grade C-; and PIO 201.

Distribution

NOT Social Analysis, Civilization & Culture

Notes

POLS 302 is one of two Junior Core options for the Political Science major.