3 courses with the subject TM, each shown exactly as we captured it from the college's catalog, with every element we hold. Where the wording looks broken, that is our reading of the catalog, not the college's text.
TM 201More Seminar Classical Intellectual Trad3
Study and discussion of foundational Ancient Greek and Roman texts in history, philosophy, and literature, with a special emphasis on the prudence and wisdom of leaders in the social and political spheres. Authors studied include Homer, Sophocles, Thucydides, Plato, Aristotle, Virgil, Livy, Cicero, Marcus Aurelius, and Plutarch. Students outside the Thomas More program may register with permission of the instructor. This course also counts as PO401: Classical Political Thought.
A study of Medieval and Renaissance texts that helped to shape the intellectual, cultural, and political world that Thomas More inhabited. Texts studied include writings from St. Augustine, Boethius, Aquinas, Dante, and Thomas More himself. The course also includes activities drawn from a “Reacting to the Past” game on the Reformation Parliament of Henry VIII's reign, which serves to illustrate the interaction between a humanist, liberal arts education and the practice of politics and statecraft in the early modern world. Students outside the Thomas More program may register with permission of the instructor. This course also counts as PO402: Medieval Political Thought.
Study and discussion of foundational Modern texts in history, philosophy, and literature. Authors studied include Machiavelli, Shakespeare, Hobbes, Locke, Descartes, Rousseau, Burke, and Tocqueville. Special emphasis is placed on the virtue of leaders and their use of power to coerce a populace and/or to promote freedom. Students outside the Thomas More program may register with permission of the instructor. This course also counts as PO403: Modern Political Thought.
