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Dr. Travis Cook
Meet Dr. Travis Cook
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Instructs First-Year Symposium and honors seminars with topics including constitutional law, philosophy, and international relations.
Examples of the classes taught by Dr. Travis Cook:
- First-Year Symposium
- Introduction to Greek
- Honors American Constitution
- Honors Plato’s Republic & Aristotle’s Ethics
- Honors Junior Philosophy Seminar: Modern Philosophy
- Honors Institute Senior Seminar: Modernity, Postmodernity, and their Critics
- American Constitution
- Classic Texts I: Ancient & Medieval
- Classic Texts II: Renaissance & Modern
- Parties and Elections
- Constitutional Law
- American Congress
- American Presidency
- Classical Political Philosophy
- Medieval Political Philosophy
- Early Modern Political Philosophy
- Late Modern Political Philosophy
- Love and Friendship
- International Relations I
- International Relations II
- Honors Senior Seminar: The American Political Novel
- Honors Senior Seminar: Montesquieu’s Spirit of the Laws& Persian Letters
- Honors Politics and Literature: Homer, Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides
- Honors Senior Seminar: Philosophy of Education: Plato, Rousseau, and Dewey
- Thesis Supervision
- PO499 Directed Study on Late Modern Political Philosophy
- PO499 Directed Study on Homer’s Iliad
- RH101 Rhetoric, Logic, and Grammar
- B.A., University of Maine
- M.A., Boston College
- Ph.D., Loyola University, Chicago
- A Manual for Men Collection of prayers and meditations, TAN Publishers, forthcoming
- “Plato” Introduction In The Belmont Abbey College Reader, pp. 324-325. Ed. Angela Miss and Carson Daly. (Bedford/St. Martin’s).
- “David Hume” entry In Volume III of the Encyclopedia of Catholic Social Thought, Social Science, and Social Policy (Scarecrow Press).
- “Careering Life’s Course”Article for BAC Crossroads.
- Book Chapter in The Presidency Now and Then, Ed. Philip Henderson (Rowman & Littlefield). “The Constitutional Presidency.’” with Scott E. Yenor and Raymond Tatalovich.
- Book Chapter in Presidential Frontiers: Underexplored Issues White House Politics, 1998 ed. Ryan Barrilleaux (Greenwood Press) “The Normative Presidency.’” with Scott E. Yenor and Raymond Tatalovich.
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