ASRC 1851

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ASRC 1851
FWS: The Mercenary Menace: Reading Machiavelli's Prince

Course information provided by the 2020-2021 Catalog.

Machiavelli's "The Prince" is not only a manual for teaching a prince how to rule, but a critique of the use of mercenaries by Italian city-states. Using Machiavelli, this course takes up the question of universal conscription as a political problem for our mament: a political problem in so far as it raises the issue of democracy, and the relationship between representation and conscription or, a volunteer army.


When Offered Fall.

Satisfies Requirement First-Year Writing Seminar.

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Syllabi: none

  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • 18766 ASRC 1851   SEM 101

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    • TR Online Meeting
    • Sep 2 - Dec 16, 2020

    • Farred, G

  • Instruction Mode: Online

    For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://knight.as.cornell.edu/.