Master of Politics

  1. Thirty hours of course work, six in advanced seminars with a substantial paper in each course.
  2. A comprehensive examination.

The course of studies for each student in the program will be planned in consultation with the director. For information on transfer credits, please refer to “Graduate School Policies” in the “Braniff Graduate School of Liberal Arts” section.

Requirements

Courses in Politics

When the following courses are under numbers 5301–5310 they contain a mixture of graduate and undergraduate students. Additional work for graduate students is assigned. At the 6000-level or above, they are exclusively for graduate students. Consult the Politics and the Institute of Philosophic Studies sections for descriptions.

POL 6311Thucydides

3

POL 6312Plutarch / Augustine / Machiavelli

3

POL 6321Lincoln

3

POL 6321Lincoln

3

POL 6323Constitutional Law

3

POL 6324Public Policy

3

POL 6325American Foreign Policy

3

POL 6326The Presidency

3

POL 6327Civil Rights

3

POL 6328Congress

3

POL 6334Social Contract Theory

3

POL 6335Kant / Hegel / Marx / Nietzsche

3

POL 6356American Political Thought

3

POL 6357U.S. Constitution

3

POL 6372Plato's Republic

3

POL 6376Aristotle's Ethics

3

POL 6377Special Studies

3

POL 6378Special Studies

3

POL 6379Special Studies

3

POL 6381Machiavelli

3

POL 6384Hobbes

3

POL 6387Locke

3

POL 6388Rousseau

3

POL 6V99Graduate Reading Full-time Enrollment

1-9

POL 7351Directed Readings

3

POL 7370Herodotus

3

POL 7371Xenophon

3

POL 7374Dialogues Of Plato

3

POL 7376Aristotle's Politics

3

POL 7380Medieval Political Philosophy

3

POL 7388American Regime

3

POL 7394Nietzsche

3

POL 7678Thesis Research

6

POL 8385Spinoza

3

POL 8396Shakespeare Seminar

3