Sophomore Colloquium: Modern Social Theory
CSS 271
Fall 2023
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| Course Cluster and Certificates: Social, Cultural, and Critical Theory Certificate |
This colloquium examines a number of competing conceptual frameworks in the social sciences derived from major political philosophers and social theorists, such as Machiavelli, Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, Mary Wollstonecraft, Marx, Durkheim, Weber, and Freud. |
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| Credit: 1 |
Gen Ed Area Dept:
SBS GOVT |
| Course Format: Lecture / Discussion | Grading Mode: Credit/Unsatisfactory |
| Level: UGRD |
Prerequisites: None |
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Fulfills a Requirement for: (CSCT)(CSS) |
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Past Enrollment Probability: Not Available |
| SECTION 01 |
Major Readings: Wesleyan RJ Julia Bookstore
Niccolò Machiavelli, THE PRINCE, translated by George Bull (Penguin, 2003). ISBN: 978-0140449150.
Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan, Revised Student Edition, edited by Richard Tuck (Cambridge University Press, 1997). ISBN: 0-521-56797-1.
John Locke, SECOND TREATISE OF GOVERNMENT, edited by CB Macpherson (Hackett, 1980). ISBN: 978-0915144860.
John Locke. A LETTER CONCERNING TOLERATION, edited by James H. Tully (Hackett, 1983). ISBN: 978-0915145607.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau, THE BASIC POLITICAL WRITINGS, translated by Donald A. Cress and Introduction by David Wootton (Hackett, 2012). ISBN: 978-1603846738.
Mary Wollstonecraft, A VINDICATION OF THE RIGHTS OF MEN AND A VINDICATION OF THE RIGHTS OF WOMAN, edited by Sylvana Tomaselli (Cambridge University Press, 1995). ISBN: 9780521436335.
THE MARX-ENGELS READER 2ND EDITION, edited by Robert C. Tucker (W.W. Norton, 1978). ISBN: 978-0393090406.
Jeremy Bentham, AN INTRODUCTION TO THE PRINCIPLES OF MORALS AND LEGISLATION (Prometheus, 1988). ISBN: 978-0879754341.
John Stuart Mill, ON LIBERTY, edited by Elizabeth Rapaport (Hackett, 1978). ISBN: 978-0915144433.
Friedrich Nietzsche, ON THE GENEALOGY OF MORALITY, translated with Introduction and Notes by Maudemarie Clark and Alan J. Swensen (Hackett, 1998). ISBN: 978-0872202832.
W.E.B. Du Bois, THE SOULS OF BLACK FOLK (Dover, 2016). ISBN: 978-0486280417.
Max Weber, THE PROTESTANT ETHIC AND THE SPIRIT OF CAPITALISM: THE REVISED 1920 EDITION, translated by Stephen Kalberg (Oxford, 2011). ISBN: 978-0199747252.
Max Weber, THE VOCATION LECTURES, edited by David Owen and Tracy B. Strong (Hackett, 2004). ISBN: 978-0872206656.
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Examinations and Assignments:
Short Assignments, Quizzes, Reading Notes, and Two Longer Papers |
Additional Requirements and/or Comments:
Course open to CSS Sophomores only.
Newly admitted majors will be instructed on the enrollment of this course by CSS. |
| Instructor(s): Ramesh,Hari Times: .M.W... 01:20PM-02:40PM; Location: SCIE184; |
Permission of Instructor Required
Enrollment capacity: 31 | Permission of instructor will be granted during the drop/add period. Students must submit either a ranked or unranked drop/add request for this course. |
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