POLT 270 Political Thought in The West (3)
Mr. Remer, Mr. Thompson. A history of the development of Western political thought from the ancient Greeks to recent times.

POLT 371 Social Contract Theory: Ancient Greece to the Present (3)
Mr. Thompson. A survey of historical developments leading up to the current social contract revival among North American and European political theorists. Particular attention will be paid to the varieties of contractualism since the ancients and the appropriateness of contract theories for understanding the social, political, and moral relationships in modern commercial societies.

POLT 375 Liberal Democratic Theory (3)
Staff. Various approaches to liberal democratic theory are discussed including recent contributions from social choice theorists and game theorists. Theorists discussed include Madison, Tocqueville, Mill, Robert Dahl, Kenneth Arrow, C.B. Macpherson and William Riker. Same as Political Economy 404.

POLT 378 Feminist Political Theory (3)
Staff. This course will focus, first on the role of women in the tradition of western political thought. Second, the course will examine the attempts of contemporary feminist thinkers to deal with concepts central to the tradition of political theory, such as justice, equality, and liberty.

POLT 381 Political Discourse (3)
Mr. Remer. A survey of theories of political discourse from the ancient Greeks to late 20th-century democratic theory. Special attention will be paid to the relationship between classical rhetoric and political theory.

POLT 382 Contemporary Political Ideas (3)
Mr. Thompson. An analysis of variants of revisionist Marxism, socialism, anarchism, fascism, 20th-century liberalism and conservatism, and the relation of these to contemporary American ideologies.

POLT 471 Greek Foundations of Western Political Thought (3)
Mr. Remer, Mr. Thompson. A study of the classical Greek foundations of diverse traditions of Western political thought from Homer to Epicureanism. Special attention will be paid to the Sophists, Plato, and Aristotle.

POLT 472 Ancient and Medieval Political Theory (3)
Mr. Remer. A survey of ancient and medieval political theory with emphasis on the concepts of order, liberty, and constitutionalism. Special attention is given to Plato, Aristotle, St. Augustine, and St. Thomas Aquinas.

POLT 477 Transition to Modernity (3)
Mr. Remer. A survey of the political thought of the Renaissance and Reformation stressing the transition from medieval to modern political theory. Theorists discussed include Machiavelli, Erasmus, More, Luther, Calvin, Hooker, Bodin, and the "Monarchomachs."

POLT 478 Modern Political Theory (3)
Mr. Thompson. An analysis of the development of political theory since the 16th century with emphasis on modern ideologies especially conservatism, liberalism, communism, and fascism. Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, Burke, Bentham, and Marx are given particular attention.

POLT 479 Contemporary Political Philosophy (3)
Mr. Thompson. Analyzing contemporary political philosophy, within the context of Kantianism vs. Hegelianism. Attention will be concentrated on political philosophers such as Arendt, Oakeshott, Rawls, Foucault, Lyotard and Derrida. Same as Philosophy 674.

POLT 486 American Political Thought (3)
Staff. A survey of the development of political ideas in America stressing foreign influences on early colonial thought and those influences indigenous to the growth of American democracy. The course is structured around the great periods of American history: the founding, the Civil War, the Great Depression, and post-World War II society.

POLT 487 Asian Political Thought (3)
Staff. A survey of major political ideas in Asian thought with attention paid to continuity and discontinuity between classical and modern ideologies and theories of government.

POLT 670 Understanding Political Thought (3)
Mr. Remer, Mr. Thompson. An examination of the logical structure of practical political thinking (propaganda and ideology) and explanatory political thinking (history, science, and philosophy). The varieties will be exemplified in famous texts, films, and other media.

POLT 682 Rationality and Choice (3)
Staff. Prerequisites: two prior courses in political science, economics, political economy, or approval of instructor. The course will include an introduction to some of the theoretical literature, as well as illustrations of such theories to political problems such as the provision of social order and other collective goods, the management of natural resources, and the formation of organization and social movements.