GOVT 1615
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- Schedule of Classes - October 16, 2017 11:09AM EDT
- Course Catalog - June 14, 2017 7:15PM EDT
Classes
GOVT 1615
Course Description
Course information provided by the Courses of Study 2016-2017.
This course offers a survey of modern political theory in the West. We will examine some of the persistent dilemmas of political modernity and the attempts of several canonical political theorists to respond to them: Machiavelli, Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, Burke, Mill, Marx, and Nietzsche. In each case, we will attend to the particular crises these theorists addressed in their work—such as the European wars of religion, the English Civil War, colonialism, the French Revolution, and industrial capitalism—as well as the broader philosophical and political issues they continue to pose to us now. Our approach will be both historical and conceptual, in other words, with the hopes of providing students with a nuanced but clear understanding of political theory as a distinctive form of political inquiry.
When Offered Spring.
Breadth Requirement (HB)
Distribution Category (HA-AS)
Course Subfield (PT)
Comments Although not a prerequisite, GOVT 1615 can be taken in sequence with GOVT 3626.
Six Week Summer.
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TBA
- Jun 26 - Aug 4, 2017
Instructors
Kramnick, I
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: Distance Learning - WWW
This Online Summer Session class is offered by the School of Continuing Education and Summer Sessions. For details visit http://www.sce.cornell.edu/ss/courses/courses.php?v=654.
Summer Special Session 2. Choose one lecture and one discussion.
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MTWRF Mcgraw Hall 165
- Jul 17 - Aug 4, 2017
Instructors
Kramnick, I
- TR Mcgraw Hall 165
- Jul 17 - Aug 4, 2017
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MTWRF Goldwin Smith Hall G20
- Jul 17 - Aug 4, 2017
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Staff
- MW Goldwin Smith Hall G20
- Jul 17 - Aug 4, 2017
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MTWRF White Hall 106
- Jul 17 - Aug 4, 2017
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Staff
- MW White Hall 106
- Jul 17 - Aug 4, 2017
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MTWRF White Hall B06
- Jul 17 - Aug 4, 2017
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Staff
- MW White Hall 104
- Jul 17 - Aug 4, 2017
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MTWRF Goldwin Smith Hall G19
- Jul 17 - Aug 4, 2017
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Staff
- MW Goldwin Smith Hall G19
- Jul 17 - Aug 4, 2017
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