In addition to the three survey seminars – 741 (ancient to early modern political theory), 742 (modern political theory), and 743 (contemporary political theory) – offered regularly in alternate semesters, there are graduate seminars based on the research interests of the faculty:
Survey Seminars:
Fred Alford: 741, 742
Charles Butterworth: 741, 742
James Glass: 743
Other Seminars
Aggression and Masochism: Philosophic and Psychological Themes (James Glass, Spring 2005)
Constitutionalism, the French Antecedents: Pascal, Montesquieu, Rousseau, and Constant Syllabus
On the Philosophy of History and the Origin of Civilization Syllabus
Group Psychology, Violence and the Self (James Glass, Fall 2003)
Maimonides' Guide of the Perplexed Syllabus
The Theory and Practice of Freedom (Fred Alford, Fall 2001)
The Politics, Philosophy and Psychology of Self-Violence (James Glass, Fall 2000)
Rousseau and Freud: The Individual or the Group? (James Glass, Fall 1998)