Selection of specialist courses
In addition to taking the core course, students select from a menu of specialist options.
Below is a typical sample of courses that may be offered in a given year:
- Democracy: Ancient and Modern Richard Bourke (QMUL)
- Ideology and Propaganda in the Roman Republic Valentina Arena (UCL)
- Languages of politics: Italy 1250-1500 Serena Ferente (KCL) [not running 09-10]
- Political Thought in Renaissance Europe Angus Gowland (UCL)
- The Significance of Thomas Hobbes's Leviathan Quentin Skinner (QMUL)
- The Theory and Practice of Golden Age Kingship Alexander Samson (UCL) [not running 09-10]
- Political Thought and Political Contexts: England 1640-1700 Justin Champion (RHUL) and Blair Worden (RHUL)
- The Public and its Spheres in Britain, 1476 - 1800 Jason Peacey (UCL) [not running 09-10]
- Political Thought in the British Atlantic World, c. 1660–1801 Ian McBride (KCL)
- Religion, Science and Production of Knowledge Adam Sutcliffe (KCL)
- Infamous Writings: Controversies and Receptions in the History of Political Thought in Early Modern Europe Peter Schroeder (UCL) [not running 09-10]
- Nationalism, Patriotism and Cosmopolitanism in Political Thought, nineteenth and twentieth centuries Georgios Varouxakis (QMUL)
- Crisis and Future in Nineteenth-Century European Thought Axel Korner (UCL)