POL 403 - Directed Individual Study

Credits: 3
Prerequisites: Grade-point average of 3.000 in politics and instructor consent. This course permits a student to follow a program of directed reading, library research, or data collection and analysis in some area not covered in other courses. May be repeated for degree credit if the topics are different.

Winter 2014 topic:

POL 403-01: Directed Individual Study: Game Theory (3). Applied game theory. Introductory-level applications of 2-sided zero-sum and variable-sum game theory to global politics. McCaughrin

Fall 2013 topic:

POL 403: Directed Individual Study: Plato on Love and Ambition (3). In this course, we engage in concentrated reading and discussion of four Platonic dialogues which examine love, friendship, and political ambition. We consider questions such as: What is friendship? What is love? Do we ever really love a friend or a beloved more than ourselves? Should we? What do lovers ultimately want? Can love lead us to a truly fulfilled life, or does it promise more than it can deliver? What is political ambition? Does it resemble love, in its aims or possibilities? What are its dangers, for the individual as well as society? What is the relationship between love and knowledge? Between ambition and knowledge? Between knowledge and happiness? Hansen. Fall 2013 Staff.