Political Science 376 - What is Politics?
Fall
2013
01
4.00
Frederic Schaffer
W 5:45PM 8:15PM
UMass Amherst
38024
What is politics, really? To answer this deceptively simple question, students engage thinkers such as Aristotle, Weber, Arendt, and Schmitt; read about the evolutionary origins of politics among the primates; go out and "do politics;" and reflect on their own political awakenings.
Open to Seniors, Juniors, and Sophomores who have taken at least one Polisci course. Senior, Junior, Sophmore with one POLISCI course prior