THEORIES OF SOCIAL JUSTICE
Course Description: This course overviews the leading contemporary conceptions of social justice, including utilitarian, liberal, libertarian, communitarian, and deliberative-democratic theories, and their implications for the design of political, economic, and social institutions. In addition, this course examines special topics such as justice between generations, global justice, and the rights of resistance or disobedience.
- PolSci 331/5331 Fall 2021 – Syllabus
- PolSci 331/5331 Fall 2020
- PolSci 331/5331 Fall 2018
- PolSci 331/5331 Fall 2017
- PolSci 331/5331 Spring 2015
- PolSci 331/5331 Spring 2014
- PolSci 331 Spring 2013
- PolSci 331 Spring 2012
- PolSci 331 Spring 2010
- PolSci 331 Fall 2007
- PolSci 331 Fall 2006
- PolSci 331 Fall 2005
HISTORY OF POLITICAL THOUGHT I: JUSTICE, VIRTUE, AND THE SOUL
Course Description: This course offers a critical introduction to the main issues and debates in predominantly western political theory, including but not limited to the topics of justice, legitimacy, equality, democracy, liberty, sovereignty, and the role of history in the political and social world. It is designed to be the first in a three-semester sequence on the history of political thought. The first semester begins with ancient Greek political thought, and follows the development of political ideas up to the early sixteenth century.
- PolSci 391/5090 Spring 2021 – Syllabus
- PolSci 391/5090 Spring 2019
- PolSci 391/5090 Spring 2018
- PolSci 391/5090 Spring 2016
- PolSci 391 Spring 2011
- PolSci 391 Spring 2008
HISTORY OF POLITICAL THOUGHT III: LIBERTY, DEMOCRACY, AND REVOLUTION
Course Description: This course offers a critical introduction to the main issues and debates in predominantly western political theory, including but not limited to the topics of justice, legitimacy, equality, democracy, liberty, sovereignty, and the role of history in the political and social world. It is designed to be the third in a three-semester sequence on the history of political thought. The third semester begins with the American and French Revolutions, and follows the development of political and social ideas up through the beginning of the twentieth century.
- PolSci 393/5093 Spring 2022 – Syllabus
- PolSci 393/5093 Spring 2017
GLOBAL JUSTICE
Course Description: This course examines contemporary debates and controversies regarding global justice. Seminar discussions will be arranged around significant issues in the current literature, for example: What (if anything) do we owe to the distantly needy? Do we have special obligations to our compatriots? Do political borders have normative significance? And so on. This course will be of interest not only to political theorists and philosophers, but also students in other fields concerned with social justice or international relations generally.
- PolSci 4070 Spring 2021
- PolSci 4070 Spring 2018 – Syllabus
- PolSci 4070 Spring 2017
- PolSci 4070 Fall 2015
- PolSci 4070 Fall 2013
- PolSci 4070 Fall 2012
- PolSci 4070 Fall 2011
- PolSci 4070 Fall 2010
- PolSci 4070 Fall 2009
- PolSci 4070 Spring 2008