2024-2025 Academic Catalog

PHIL 256 Social & Political Philosophy

Intermediate Writing, Ethical Reasoning, Faith & Reason-Philosophy. A critical review of theories of political, social, and economic organizations that have shaped Western social and political thinking in the 19th and 20th centuries. The philosophical underpinnings of "political theory" will be explored through a close examination of historical events and the relationship between theory and practice.

Credits

3

Prerequisite

Take class='sc-courselink' href='/en/2024-2025/academic-catalog/course-descriptions/core-core/100/core-110'>CORE 110 or HNR 150. Take 1 OC, oral communications course. Take 1 Cultural Diversity course.

Corequisite

Take TH-101 previously or concurrently. Take 1 PR, philosophical reasoning course previously or concurrently.

Distribution

ER,IW,PHL

Offered

Annual Spring Semester