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Back to Table of Contents | Back to Main Index Previous News | Send mail to The Voice MBC adds political science classes Next fall, Multnomah will welcome a two-semester political science course to the general education catalog. Starting fall 2003, students will have the chance to expose themselves to the ways and history of politics under the direction of new adjunct professor Jay Hull. Dr. Wayne Strickland, academic dean, hopes the classes will show the relationship between biblical and theological studies and politics and show how church law and political movements often have religious components. In the fall, students will be able to take Political Science 201: Introduction to Political Thought. The class will feature a variety of political philosophies from the Greco-Roman world to the present, according to the course description. Students will discuss such thinkers as Plato, Aristotle, Jefferson and Marx and learn about the interaction between government and religion as well as the role of Christianity in civil society. The spring semester will offer Political Science 202: Introduction to Constitutional Law. Students will study constitutional law and the branches of American government, state and national. Time will be given to issues such as private property, right to privacy and limited government. Each of these classes will require three credit hours. Jay Hull will join the adjunct faculty to teach both classes. He has received a bachelor of science from Reed College, a master of arts in religious studies from the University of Chicago and a doctor of laws degree from Lewis and Clark College. He is a practicing attorney. Dr. Strickland desires that students will leave with a better appreciation for the labor involved in the framing of government and political systems. "I hope they [students] will have a broader appreciation for the way God uses political movements for his purposes and his sovereignty," Dr. Strickland said, "[and that] they will better understand what government can and should do under God." The classes were added as a result of the accreditation process. Back to Table of Contents | Back to Main Index Previous News | Top Of Page Send mail to The Voice| Journalism department website © 2003 The Voice. No part of this publication may be reproduced in written or electronic form without prior written consent from the journalism adviser of Multnomah Bible College. All rights reserved.