2023-24 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
    Nov 23, 2024  
2023-24 Undergraduate Catalog [Archived Catalog]

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PHI 240 - Social and Political Philosophy

With an emphasis on the relationship between the individual and the state as well as on opposing conceptions of democracy, freedom, and a just society, the course relates themes of social and political philosophy with historical, economic, and political events and movements from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries. Fulfills: GE 5; LASR. (3 cr. hr.)
Frequency code C = offered at least once every two years

Student Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

  1. Summarize the major concepts and theories used in social and political philosophy in terms of contemporary society.
  2. Identify the ethical dimensions of diversity, pluralism and marginality in social and political philosophy.
  3. Apply these concepts and theories to areas of contemporary concern by the construction of a reasoned philosophical argument.



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