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Undergraduate Courses: Spring 2022

GER 214 What Makes us Think? Critical Judgements in Moments of Crisis
Thomas Bartcherer

HR 235 Dignity and the Human Rights Tradition
Roger Berkowitz

Courage To Be Courses

The Courage to Be: Courage, Cowardice, and the Colonial Encounter
Tara Needham

The Courage to Be: Achilles, Socrates, Antigone, Mother Courage, Barbara Lee
Thomas Bartscherer  

The Courage to Dissent: Politics and Human Rights in North Africa
Zlad Slimany

The Courage to be: The Face of the Other
Joshua Boettiger 

The Courage to be: Liberator or Leviathan: Law in the Liberal Arts
Laura Ford  

Affiliated Courses

Arendt's writings are taught in the Language & Thinking Program, The First Year Seminar, and The College Seminar, as well as many other courses. Listed below are current courses connected with Arendt's Work. While Arendt herself is not read in all these courses, the courses listed address works, themes and traditions that are important foundations for those who want to engage in political and humanist thinking about the world in conversation with Hannah Arendt. 

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    Human Rights Project Courses
    The Human Rights Project helps the Bard community examine the theory and practice of human rights through teaching, research, and public programs.
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    Political Studies Program Courses
    The political studies program curriculum is anchored upon a set of introductory courses generally regarded as the intellectual foundations of political science: Political Theory, Comparative Politics, International Relations, American Politics, Political Economy, and Foundations of the Law.
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    Philosophy Program Courses
    The philosophy course list that follows is divided into several categories: introductory courses; historical courses; ethics; logic; aesthetics; epistemology, metaphysics, and philosophy of language; and single-philosopher seminars. Courses numbered in the 100s are introductory courses; 200-level courses, while more specialized in content, also are generally appropriate as first courses in philosophy; 300-level courses require previous courses in philosophy and permission of the instructor for admission.
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