PHIL 306 - History of Modern Social and Political Philosophy

This course is an introduction to modern social and political thought and its epistemological foundations, covering authors from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment, such as Machiavelli, More, Erasmus, Luther, Montaigne, Galileo, Descartes, Pascal, Hobbes, and Locke.

Unit(s): 1
Group Distribution Requirement(s): Distribution Group I
Prerequisite(s): Two 200-level PHIL courses
Instructional Method: Conference
Grading Mode: Letter grading (A-F)
Notes: This course applies to the department’s history of philosophy or ethics requirement.
Group Distribution Learning Outcome(s):

Understand how arguments can be made, visions presented, or feelings or ideas conveyed through language or other modes of expression (symbols, movement, images, sounds, etc.).
Analyze and interpret texts, whether literary or philosophical, in English or a foreign language, or works of the visual or performing arts.
Evaluate arguments made in or about texts (whether literary or philosophical, in English or a foreign language, or works of the visual or performing arts).