POLI 384

Comparative Political Thought

Units: 1.5

Hours: 3-0-0

Critically engages different cultural, religious, and geographic traditions of political thought and questions about their contested boundaries. Main topics: overview of key traditions; exploration of emerging fields of comparative political inquiry; debates about how to compare and engage different traditions of political thinking; the significance of which thinkers, ideas, texts, and histories are conventionally discussed or not discussed in political theory; implications of engaging different political thought traditions for political theory as a whole.

Note:

• Credit will be granted for only one of POLI 384, POLI 319 (if taken in the same topic).

Prerequisites:

• POLI 103 or POLI 202; or
• permission of the department.

Undergraduate course in Political Science offered by the Department of Political Science in the Faculty of Social Sciences.