DVC Political Science 120-Introduction to Politics

Course Syllabus and Outline

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Lecture Outlines:

Lecture 1: The Study of Politics and Human Nature

Lecture 2: Understanding and Critically Analyzing Political Theory

Lecture 3: Our Premodern Heritage - Plato, Aristotle, and Cicero

Lecture 4: Our Premodern Heritage - God, The Bible, Augustine and Aquinas

Lecture 5: Liberalism and Kant

Lecture 6: Reactions to Liberalism - Conservatism

Lecture 7: Reactions to Liberalism - Marxism

Lecture 8: The Impact of Darwinian Theories on the Tradition of Western Thought

Lecture 9: Public Opinion, the Mass Media, and B.F. Skinner

Lecture 10: Interest Groups and Freud

Lecture 11: Political Parties and Sartre

Lecture 12: Leadership Dynamics, Executive Offices, Bureaucracies, and Confucius

Lecture 13: Legislative and Judicial Systems and Upanishadic Hinduism

Lecture 14: International System Theories, Laws, and Organizations

Lecture 15: New Directions in Political Science and Important Cognate Fields

1st Journal Responses - Due: March 22, 2006

  • Lecture 1, Question 2
  • Lecture 2, Question 1
  • Lecture 3, Questions 4 and 5
  • Lecture 4, Questions 7 and 8
  • Lecture 5, Question 2 and 3
  • Lecture 6, Question 6 and 8
  • Lecture 7, Question 5 and 8

    • 2nd Journal Responses - Due: May 24, 2006

  • Choose One Question from Lectures 8 Through 15

    • Mid Term Research Paper Research Project 1 - Due: March 22, 2006

    Final Research Paper Research Project 2 - Due: May 24, 2006

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