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| Politics Curriculum |
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Politics is the art and 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.
Aristotle wrote that politics aims at the highest human
good, the best of ends, and that the study of politics
constitutes the most comprehensive and ennobling of
disciplines. The contestable nature of politics is both
challenging and provocative.
As one of the ancient disciplines, politics is about how
people grapple with
fundamental questions of freedom, order and equality, about
the nature of justice and about legitimacy, community,
individualism. Politics asks such questions as: How are we
to act as citizens? How do our public institutions, and
those in other countries, function? What is the nature and
practice of citizenship? What values inform, or should
inform, public policies? How does political change occur?
Since the study of politics is characterized by disciplinary
fragmentation, political scientists employ a variety of
perspectives and methods in their work. Much of this
disciplinary variety is available at Pomona College, where
politics may be addressed through the study of values,
institutions, processes or behavior, and where literary and
historical methods coexist with
quantitative approaches. |
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