POL 396 - Seminar in Political Philosophy

FDR: SS2
Credits: 3
When Offered: Offered when interest is expressed and departmental resources permit.

Prerequisite: POL 111 or permission of the instructor.An examination of selected questions and problems in political philosophy and/or political theory. May be repeated for degree credit with permission and if the topics are different.

Topic for Fall, 2009:

POL 396: Political Theory and Gender (3). Many of the enduring ideas about power, justice, and the desirable organization of community life in the Western political philosophy tradition are grounded in notions about the “natural” or “proper” organization of relations between men and women. This course investigates how these notions of gender have structured competing definitions of the good life and the best community and examine the ways in which challenges to these notions affect our thinking about the appropriate aims of political life. (SS2) Le Blanc