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| Politics Curriculum |
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Aristotle wrote that politics is both the most comprehensive
and most ennobling of
disciplines. It is the most comprehensive because it
contemplates with the basic questions of power, conflict,
and structure that underlie all human experience; it is the
most ennobling because it points us toward the highest ends
of human life, including equality, freedom and justice.
In practice, politics is the art and the rough-and tumble of
diverse persons
attempting to live together in civil society. In a world
characterized by uncertainty,
scarcity, conflict and power relationships, politics enables
us to make collective choices by debate and negotiation
rather than brute force. As an academic discipline, politics
is equally challenging and provocative. It demands that we
grapple with fundamental questions: How are we to act as
citizens? How do our public institutions, and those in other
countries, actually function? What values inform, or should
inform, public policies? What forces motivate or impede
change?
At Pomona, the Politics Department is organized around four
subfields: political
theory, American politics, comparative politics, and
international relations. We encourage our students to take a
pluralistic approach to their studies, to take courses in
each subfield, and to look at politics from a variety of
angles, methods, and perspectives. As befits a discipline
that is both essential and extensive, our graduates have
gone on to noteworthy careers in fields including (but not
limited to) electoral politics, policymaking, law,
journalism, education, finance, and medicine. |
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