Political Studies - Political Theory

Trent University

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Program Summary

University
Trent University
Degree
Bachelor of Arts, BA
OUAC Program Code
RST
Grade Range
70%
Experiential Learning
Practicum or internship option available
Enrollment
200 200
Instruction Language
English
Notes
Political Theory explores the ideas people use to understand and shape political life. Theoretical premises developed over centuries invest our assumptions, our choices and our rhetoric with meaning. Whether in a global or a Canadian mirror, we see ourselves as liberals, conservatives, neoliberals, socialists, Marxists, anarchists – perhaps postmodern or postcolonial – but always as members of a community. Political theory helps us grasp wider significance from the diversity of political ideas and events shaping our present and our future. Political theory also helps us invest those ideas with new and inspired meaning in the contemporary context.