Political Science 376 - What is Politics?

Spring
2020
01
4.00
Frederic Schaffer
TU 4:00PM 6:30PM
UMass Amherst
47871
Machmer Hall room W-24
schaffer@polsci.umass.edu
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 & Sophomores only.
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