DECEPTION AND POLITICS

Prerequisites & course information

Requisites: Sophomore standing Course Designation: Core GenEd - Humanities & Arts Breadth - Humanities or Social Science Level - Intermediate L&S Credit - L&S Liberal Arts and Science Repeatable for Credit: No Last Taught: Fall 2026 Learning Outcomes: 1. Explore deception – and truth telling – as matters of fundamental political concern. Audience: Undergraduate 2. Examine flattery, hypocrisy, lying as a matter of state, and lying as a matter of policy: philosophical explorations of these and related phenomena are at the center of this course. Audience: Undergraduate 3. Explore writers ranging from Plato to John Rawls and how they have grappled with the problem of deception and truth-telling in politics. Audience: Undergraduate Learning Outcomes: 1. Explore deception – and truth telling – as matters of fundamental political concern. Audience: Undergraduate 2. Examine flattery, hypocrisy, lying as a matter of state, and lying as a matter of policy: philosophical explorations of these and related phenomena are at the center of this course. Audience: Undergraduate 3. Explore writers ranging from Plato to John Rawls and how they have grappled with the problem of deception and truth-telling in politics. Audience: Undergraduate