Political Theory

Prerequisite: POL 203 or permission of instructor.

POL 421 Seminar in Political Theory

This course is an advanced seminar that will focus intensely on a particular issue in political theory or on a particular political thinker or group of political thinkers.

3

Prerequisites

POL 203 or permission of the instructor.

POL 423 Jurisprudence and Constitutional Interpretation

This course examines the role that philosophical theories of law play in our American Constitutional system. Topics include: the relationship between law and morality, the positivism vs. natural law debate, Ronald Dworkin's "principled" theory of Constitutional interpretation, Justice Scalia's "textualism," and Judge Richard Posner's pragmatic-economic approach to the law.

3

Prerequisites

POL 203 or permission of the instructor.