• Courses in this category have as their primary focus the historical and political processes and patterns that have structured the relationship between individuals and communities.
  • This concentration explores how communities attempt to reconcile the claims of justice, power, liberty, and authority, historically and in contemporary public life.
  • By developing an interdisciplinary approach that can include law, economics, sociology, and philosophy, Historical and Political Studies is a broadly based concentration that shares the traditional aims of liberal arts education while attempting to come to grips with the origins and contemporary manifestations of major political and social issues.