CDL COURSE ENTRY FORM


Author: Laura Wait/SUNY
Last modified by: Laura Wait/SUNY
Composed: 01/23/2006 04:34 PM
Curriculum Committee Approval Date:
Modified: 06/26/2017
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Course Number: (prefix) HIS (number) 243444 ESC 2.0 Course number: POLI-3080 POLI-3080Modern Political Theory

Name: Modern Political Theory
Datatel Title: (30char) Modern Political Theory

Area Coordinator: Nadine Wedderburn Department Code: 10PW Team: Social

Liberal Study? YES Level: UPPER Credits: 4 Prerequisite? NO
General Education Course? YES GenEd Approval Term/Year:

GenEd Area 1: 7. HumanitiesFully or Partially: f
GenEd Area 2: 5. Western CivilizationFully or Partially: f



Pre-registration Information?
Course will be offered (for online course descriptions, proposed offerings for by term views and web views)
Spring 1		Course will be offered (for final term listings, online registration, online bookordering, web views)
Spring 1
First Term Offered: 2006FA (Required Format: YearTerm - i.e., 2005SP)
Last Term Offered in Print Version:
Title Changes: This course was renamed effective the September 2009 term and was formerly offered as Western Civilization: Internal Critiques and Analyses.
AC Changes: Changed from Ed Warzala 10PW TO Nadine Wedderburn 10PW effective fall '17 term. Catalog updated 6/26/17. LWait
Changed from Frank VanderValk to Ed Warzala effective SP1 2017 term. Catalog updated 10/17/16. LWait
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Description: The course will examine some of the most important contributions to political theory in the history of Western Civilization with a focus on the modern period, roughly from 1500-1900. We will explore questions about the proper role of government, the nature of political and moral obligation, the role of economics in political life, and the importance of personal, political and religious liberty. Authors who may be studied in this course include Niccolo Machiavelli, Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, John Stuart Mill, Karl Marx, and Friedrich Nietzsche.

This course fully meets the general education requirement in Humanities for 4 credits OR Western Civilization for 4 credits.

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Major Course Area
Historical Studies, Public Affairs, Social Science		Minor Course Area
Philosophy and Religious Studies, Political Science and Public Affairs		SLN Disciplines
Philosophy
Additional Course Requirements
WWW Computer Conference		 Undergrad Certificate Association:


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Meets General Education Requirement

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Archive Course:

genedcode for dpplanner: 7^f~8;5^f~8

genedfull area for dpplanner: Humanities;Western Civilization