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IDSC 251 Windows on the Good Life 2 credits
Human beings are always and everywhere challenged by the question: What should I do to spend my mortal time well? One way to approach this ultimate challenge is to explore some of the great cultural products of our civilization–works that are a delight to read for their wisdom and artfulness. This series of two-credit courses will explore a philosophical dialogue of Plato in the fall, a work from the Bible in the winter, and a pair of plays by Shakespeare in the spring. The course can be repeated for credit throughout the year and in subsequent years.
- Fall 2024, Winter 2025, Spring 2025
- HI, Humanistic Inquiry
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IDSC 251.01 Fall 2024
- Faculty:Laurence Cooper 🏫 👤
- Size:18
- Grading:S/CR/NC
- MHasenstab 105 8:00pm-9:45pm
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IDSC 251.02 Fall 2024
- Faculty:Laurence Cooper 🏫 👤
- Size:18
- Grading:S/CR/NC
- MHasenstab 105 3:10pm-4:45pm
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IDSC 251.01 Winter 2025
- Faculty:Laurence Cooper 🏫 👤
- Size:18
- Grading:S/CR/NC
- MHasenstab 105 3:10pm-4:45pm
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IDSC 251.02 Winter 2025
- Faculty:Laurence Cooper 🏫 👤
- Size:18
- Grading:S/CR/NC
- MHasenstab 105 8:00pm-9:45pm
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IDSC 251.01 Spring 2025
- Faculty:Laurence Cooper 🏫 👤
- Size:18
- Grading:S/CR/NC
- MHasenstab 105 3:10pm-4:45pm
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IDSC 251.02 Spring 2025
- Faculty:Laurence Cooper 🏫 👤
- Size:18
- Grading:S/CR/NC
- MHasenstab 105 8:00pm-9:45pm
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POSC 160 Political Philosophy 6 credits
Introduction to ancient and modern political philosophy. We will investigate several fundamentally different approaches to the basic questions of politics–questions concerning the character of political life, the possibilities and limits of politics, justice, and the good society–and the philosophic presuppositions (concerning human nature and human flourishing) that underlie these, and all, political questions.
- Winter 2025
- HI, Humanistic Inquiry WR2 Writing Requirement 2
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POSC 160.00 Winter 2025
- Faculty:Laurence Cooper 🏫 👤
- Size:30
- T, THWeitz Center 233 1:15pm-3:00pm
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POSC 251 Science and Humanity 6 credits
The modern age has been characterized by the unprecedented advance of natural science and the attempt to achieve technological mastery of nature. How did this come about? What worldview does this express, and how does that worldview affect the way we live and think? We will investigate these questions by studying classic works by some of modernity‘s philosophic founders (including Bacon, Descartes, and Hobbes) as well as some of its most penetrating interpreters and critics (including Jonathan Swift, Rousseau, and Nietzsche).
- Winter 2025
- HI, Humanistic Inquiry IS, International Studies
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POSC 251.00 Winter 2025
- Faculty:Laurence Cooper 🏫 👤
- Size:20
- T, THWeitz Center 233 3:10pm-4:55pm
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POSC 252 Theoretical Foundations of the American Regime 6 credits
In this course we will examine the theoretical foundations of the American regime as understood by the founders (including John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and Alexander Hamilton); by dissenters among their ranks (the Antifederalists); by earlier thinkers on whom the founders drew (Locke, Montesquieu, and Aristotle); and by later figures, including political actors (such as Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass) and philosophically minded observers (such as Alexis de Tocqueville).
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POSC 252.00 Spring 2025
- Faculty:Laurence Cooper 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THHasenstab 002 1:15pm-3:00pm
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POSC 260 “A Savage Made to Inhabit Cities”: The Political Philosophy of Rousseau 6 credits
In this course we will study what Rousseau considered his greatest and best book: Emile. Emile is a philosophic novel. It uses a thought experiment–the rearing of a child from infancy to adulthood–to explore human nature and the human condition, including their political dimensions. Among Emile's themes are natural goodness and the origins of evil; self-love and sociability; the differences and relations between the sexes; citizenship; and the principles of political right. The book also addresses the question of how one might live naturally and happily amid an unnatural and unhappy civilization.
- Fall 2024
- HI, Humanistic Inquiry
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POSC 260.00 Fall 2024
- Faculty:Laurence Cooper 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THWeitz Center 233 1:15pm-3:00pm
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Majors who will use this course for the 300 level elective should notify the instructor
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POSC 400 Integrative Exercise
The comprehensive exercise is a substantial (approximately 25-30 page) research paper on a topic within American Politics, Comparative Politics, International Relations, Political Theory, and Public Policy. The student should have completed a 300-level POSC course. The usual comps process starts with a research paper from an already-completed advanced seminar, which is revised or used as an anchor to write the senior thesis, with approval and guidance from the instructor, who becomes the comps adviser. The students must also prepare a poster based on their comps paper for presentation in a group forum.
- Fall 2024, Winter 2025, Spring 2025
- No Exploration
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Student is a Political Science and International Relations major AND has Senior Priority.