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Sample courses taught (click headings for syllabuses/reading lists):

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Foundations of American Democracy

A study of the basic principles of American political life as treated in Federalist and Anti-Federalist essays, Locke, Tocqueville, Lincoln, Douglass, Booker T. Washington, DuBois, and Baldwin.


Modern Political Thought

A survey of political philosophy from the 16th to the 19th centuries, with readings from Machiavelli, Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, Mill, and Nietzsche.


Classics of Social and Political Thought

A survey of political philosophy with a special emphasis on economics, with readings from Aristotle, Thomas Aquinas, Locke, Adam Smith, Rousseau, Marx, Keynes, and Hayek.

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Al-Farabi's Political Philosophy

An introduction to al-Farabi through the close reading of several of his works, with particular attention to the relationship between philosophy, politics, and religion.
 

St. John’s College Freshman Seminar

A survey of Ancient Greek literature, drama, history, and philosophy.


St. John’s College Sophomore Seminar

A survey of literature, philosophy, and theology covering Ancient Israel, Rome, and the early Renaissance.

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St. John's College Junior Seminar

A survey of literature and philosophy from the early modern era, broadly construed.

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Yusuf and Zulaykha school scene

Folio from an illustrated manuscript of Jami's Yusuf and Zulaykha, depicting a school scene (c. 1565). 

St. John's College seal

St. John's College

1160 Camino de Cruz Blanca

Santa Fe, NM 87505

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