Politics
Chairman and Associate Professor: JOHN GRANT
Professors: LARRY P. ARNN, MICKEY CRAIG, STEPHEN J. MARKMAN, RONALD PESTRITTO, KEVIN PORTTEUS, MATTHEW SPALDING, THOMAS G. WEST
Associate Professors: ADAM CARRINGTON, KHALIL HABIB, MARK KREMER, JOSEPH POSTELL, KEVIN SLACK
Assistant Professor: DANIEL O'TOOLE
Visiting Assistant Professor: MICHAEL DRISCOLL
Lecturer: TIMOTHY W. CASPAR
The Politics Department does not accept transfer credit for required courses in the major. Credit toward the major or minor is not granted for hours earned by Advanced Placement (AP) work. Finally, for students who participate in the Washington-Hillsdale Internship Program, the Politics Department offers one three-hour, 300-level Politics elective each semester at the Kirby Center. Students may count that course toward the Politics major or minor.
Degrees
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Politics, Major -
Politics, Minor
Courses of Instruction
POL 101: U.S. Constitution
Credits 3POL 202: American Political Thought
Credits 3POL 211: Classical Political Philosophy
Credits 3POL 212: Modern Political Philosophy I: Social Contract Theory
Credits 3POL 214: Modern Political Philosophy II: Idealism, Historicism, Nihilism
Credits 3This course begins with Rousseau's philosophic critique of human nature and examines the development of that critique in the political philosophy of Kant, Hegel, Marx, Nietzsche and other late modern theorists.