History of Political Philosophy

Lab I

1. Visit the class page and familiarize yourself with the resources available there.

2. Go to the Shoreline CC Library page at http://oscar.ctc.edu/library/

            Look at the Research Tutorial

            http://oscar.ctc.edu/library/tutorial/

            Do a search of the online catalog for your philosopher. How many items are listed?

            http://shoreline.library.ctc.edu/

Go to the library page for “Online Databases”

            http://oscar.ctc.edu/library/eresource.html

            Then go to the ProQuest Direct and Ebsco data bases and search for articles about your

            philosopher. How many items are listed as “full text” sources? (Print out a list)

3. Look at the “Reference” web sites on the class page. Identify potential sources for your

philosopher. Which do you find most helpful? Why? (1 paragraph) If you run across other

sites of this nature please provide URL’s.

4. Using either the links on the class page or an internet search engine - find web sites

for Plato, and Aristotle. Write a brief review of at least one site for each

philosopher noting its utility (links to information, expanded texts, articles online,

etc.) authority (who produced this site - is it an authoritative source - connected with

a university etc.) and general value for preliminary research. ( 1- 2 pages)