2024-2025 Catalog and Student Handbook

POLS 301 Classical Political Thought

Inquiries of ancient philosophers into such questions as source of political obligation and the nature of best political order; as well as the encounter of revealed religion with political philosophy. Reading in Thucydides, Plato, Aristotle, Augustine, and others.

Credits

3

Prerequisite

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

Distribution

Leadership & Ethics, NOT Social Analysis, Civilization & Culture

Notes

POLS 301 is one of two Junior Core options for the Political Science major.