Politics: Participation and Power

Catalog description

This course presents an introduction to core aspects of politics: participation (who is acting on or with whom) and power (how people or organizations influence other peoples' or organizations' behavior). To do this we will read and discuss classic texts as old as the Bible and classical Greece and up to the recent past. We will look at political leadership, relations among both individuals and states, and forms of political action ranging from democratic politics to war. We will focus both on the substance and the communication strategies of authors. Assignments will include both essays and one oral presentation. Counts as a Communication Intensive course. Counts as a Moral & Ethical Reasoning course.