GOVT-344 Conservatism

What traditions of political thought inform conservatism today, and what ideas do these traditions offer to conservatives and their opponents going forward? Explores schools of conservative political thought such as traditionalism, agrarianism, libertarianism, anarcho-capitalism, neo-conservatism, and right-wing populism with emphasis on tensions between them. Students will engage with questions of the good life, human nature, morality, liberty, order, property, and progress at the heart of conservative political thought. (Writing-intensive).

Maximum Enrollment

Writing-Intensive (18)

(Writing Intensive.)

Credits

1

Prerequisite

one 200-level course in political theory, or 346.

Offered

Fall