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Environmental Political Theory — POL4240.01

Instructor: John Hultgren
Days & Time: MO,TH 10:00am-11:50am
Credits: 4

What is nature? Who gets to speak for nature? What is the institutional arrangement, political economic system, and form of political community best suited to cultivating a more sustainable relationship with the non-human realm? These questions are most effectively grappled with by putting political theory into conversation with environmental studies. In cultivating this

Political Ideologies in Action: American Conservatism — POL2209.01

Instructor: John Hultgren
Days & Time: MO,TH 1:40pm-3:30pm
Credits: 4

Contemporary American conservatism has evolved considerably from its historical roots in the ideologies of classical conservatism and classical liberalism. How did we get from Edmund Burke to Steve Bannon? From the Federalists to the Freedom Caucus? To gain insight into these questions, this course will explore how the aforementioned ideologies have intersected with four

Political Theory Workshop — POL4402.01

Instructor: John Hultgren
Days & Time: WE 10:00am-11:50am
Credits: 2

“For those who are concerned with the history of political theories,” Sheldon Wolin wrote in a 1969 essay, “the vocation has become a demanding one at the present time.” If Wolin was alarmed then by the drive to render the study of politics “scientific” – thus relegating political theory to the dust-bin of