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
Permission is required for interchange registration during the add/drop period only.