PHL 370 -- POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY: ETHICAL VALUES AND CHALLENGES TO LEADERSHIP IN POLITICS AND PUBLIC SERVICE
CLASS SIZE: Z1 30
DR. L. ULRICH [E-mail or phone at (760) 574-8087]
General Education Course and Approved for the SOCIAL JUSTICE CLUSTER.

COURSE CONTENT: This course will provide an ethical framework for analyzing and assessing Leadership issues in the current political scene. This ethical framework will examine the values and virtues needed for effective Leadership. An historical context will be established to focus on the meaning of community and the dynamics of Leadership in the current political scene. Cases illustrating Leadership practices will be used and examples will be drawn from significant political leaders and their struggles in the past, e.g. the Founding Fathers, Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, Martin Luther King, Nelson Mandela, Ronald Reagan and other historical figures.

FORMAT: This is an e-learning [Distance Learning - On Line]  course with no classroom meetings. The professor will be available for phone consultations throughout the summer. The course will extend from May 11 to July 31. There will be six (6) Threaded Discussions, requiring three (3) contributions to each discussion, and three (3) essays of 300-500 words during the course. These requirements will be further designated on the syllabus available from Dr. Ulrich  <Lawrence.Ulrich@notes.udayton.edu> or on line. The course website is linked from Dr. Ulrich's homepage  <http://academic.udayton.edu/LawrenceUlrich/> or students can go directly to the course website at <http://academic.udayton.edu/LawrenceUlrich/370s09>.

An interview with Dr. Ulrich is NOT essential for enrolling in this course although e-mail contact is welcome prior to enrollment in the course. Prerequisite is Phl 103.  The course will be conducted on-line and by e-mail.

GRADING SCHEME: Students will read the texts and answer questions or address issues (in the form of Threaded Discussions and essays) on the assigned readings. There will also be some case analyses focusing on an examination of a case relative to particular issues raised in the course. The assignments and their deadlines are detailed on the website for the course. Web Conferences (audio chat rooms) for extra credit will be a part of the grading scheme. (See SYLLABUS for details.)

TEXT(S): [SELECTIONS DESIGNATED ON COURSE SCHEDULE WEBPAGE]
-The Ethics of Leadership. Joanne B. Ciulla. Thompson-Wadworth, 2003. [ISBN-13: 978-0-15-506317-4] [ISBN-10: 0-15-506317-0].

-Transforming Leadership. James MacGregor Burns.Grove Press, 2003. [ISBN 0-8021-4118-8].

- Brief  Selections from Aristotle's Politics linked on line from http://classics.mit.edu/Aristotle/politics.html.

- Brief  Selections from Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics linked on line from http://classics.mit.edu/Aristotle/nicomachaen.html

- Brief  Selections from Machiavelli's The Prince linked on line from http://www.constitution.org/mac/prince00.htm.

- Brief  Selections from Thomas Hobbes' Leviathan linked on line from http://oregonstate.edu/instruct/phl302/texts/hobbes/leviathan-contents.html

- Brief  Selections from John Locke's Second Treatise of Civil Government linked on line from http://www.liberty1.org/2dtreat.htm

-A few additional Selected Readings will be linked from the course schedule webpage.