PS 545 - AMERICAN POLITICAL THOUGHT

College of Arts and Sciences

Credit(s): 3

This course explores the American tradition of political thought, its formation, and the ways it is involved in major problems of culture, political economy, ideology, and identity. Alternative ideas of work, power, political obligation, science and technology, and related issues are examined. Relationships of theory and practice, public and private, and government and society are analyzed.

Prereq: UN3 status.