Course Catalog

TOPICS IN PHILOSOPHY (PL3910)

TOPICS VARY BY SEMESTER

INTERNSHIP EXTENSION (PL3980)

All internship extensions are related to a previous internship registration, please contact the internship office for more information.

INTERNSHIP (PL3980)

Internships may be taken for 0 credits. Students may do more than one internship, but internship credit cannot cumulatively total more than 4 credits.

MULTI-DISCIPLINARY PERSPECT ON POLIT'L ECON (PL4037)

As the bridge-course for the major in Philosophy, Politics and Economics, this team-taught course offers a multidisciplinary perspective on key questions of political economy. First presenting the similarities and differences between philosophical, political and economic approaches to political and economic rationality, the course offers varied analyses of representation and government, the commons, security, inequality and debt. The overall purpose of the course is to engage students, at various levels of theoretical abstraction and empirical precision, with the fundamental issues lying between ethics, politics,and economics.

PORTFOLIO (PL4075)

Under the supervision of the major advisor, students prepare a portfolio of at least 5 essays from their major courses, along with relevant work in other courses, and identify, evaluate and justify the personal focus of their work in an introductory essay. Examined orally by a panel of faculty.

THESIS WORKSHOP (PL4094)

Upon a successful thesis application students must complete the thesis workshop in which they develop their thesis proposal through the submission of a literature review, an annotated bibliography of primary and secondary sources, and a draft of the first chapter. Students will learn how to plan and execute a substantial research project with the professor's close supervision.

SENIOR PROJECT (PL4095)

A Senior Project is an independent study representing a Major Capstone Project that needs to be registered using the Senior Project registration form.
(Download: https://fd10.formdesk.com/aup/SeniorProjectApplication)

TOPICS IN PHILOSOPHY (PL4910)

TOPICS VARY BY SEMESTER

FOUNDATIONS OF MODERN POLITICS (PO1011)

What is politics - the quest for the common good or who gets what, when, and how? We study what defines politics in the modern age: states and nations in the international system, collective action and representation in mass societies, trajectories of democracy and dictatorship, politics and development in the context of capitalism. The course will introduce the student to the concerns, the language and the methods of Political Science.