OVERVIEW OF DEGREE REQUIREMENTS
Minimum number of credits required to earn minor: 18
GPA requirements to earn minor: Students graduating with a minor in a CLAS field must earn a cumulative GPA of 2.0 or better in the courses in the minor field that are credited toward completion of the minor.
Minimum Grade requirements for courses to count toward minor: C-
Residency Requirement: A minimum of 9 credit hours must be completed at the University of Maine
For Political Science majors: No more than two courses may count both in the major and the Political Theory minor.
Contact Information: Mark Brewer, Professor and Chair of Political Science, (207) 581-1863, mark.brewer@maine.edu
Political theory is the philosophical study of politics. Using methods of the humanities, especially the rigorous interpretation of classic texts in the history of political thought, it students politics “normatively”, asking how the political world should or ought to work. What place should liberty, equality, justice, or virtue, e.g., have in our lives, as individuals and as political communities? Why does politics seem always to fall so frustratingly short of the hopes that we reflexively lay up in it? And what should our response to such frustrations be? The minor in Political Theory allows students especially interested in such questions to make them a focus of study. It likewise affords consideration of the very different ways in which the brightest minds of other times and places have understood and answered them.
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