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SUNY ID: 167110
Full Title: Political Theory II: Hobbes to the Present
Level: Lower Division (UG)
CIP: 4510 Political Science and Government

POL 2180
Political Theory II

4 credits

The second half of a two-course survey of Western political thought. Themes characteristic of the last 500 years of political theory include liberalism, feminism, nationalism, and revolution. Theorists typically read are Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, Mill, Marx, and a 20th-century theorist.