Assistant Professor of Political Science
Phone: 478.757.3797
Email: tellington@wesleyancollege.edu
Office: Tate 132
Address: Wesleyan College, 4760 Forsyth Road Macon, GA 31210
Education: B.A., M.A., University of Alabama; Ph.D., University of Maryland
Courses taught include:
201: Issues in American National Government.
Goal: Students will develop and utilize analytical tools and research skills for understanding, evaluating,
and participating in the political process.
Content: As students investigate selected aspects of political representation and policy formation in the
executive, legislative, and judicial branches of American national government, they will encounter and
use a variety of tools of political analysis. Applying these tools, students will present policy recommendations,
hold debates, stage mock legislative sessions, and prepare briefs for cases to be heard in the
Supreme Court.
Ged. Ed. Category: Information processing.
300: Foundations of Political Thought.
Goal: To introduce students to political theory's treatment of central political and moral issues, such as
human nature, power, community, equality, liberty, and democracy.
Content: Students will read and analyze the contributions of political thinkers including Aristotle, Plato,
Machiavelli, Hobbes, Locke, Mill, Rousseau, and Marx. The course will close with an analysis of treatment
of some of these issues by contemporary political thinkers.
320: American Constitutional Development.
Goal: To explore the principles and processes that have shaped America's development as a constitutional
democracy; to develop the ability to critically analyze important constitutional questions.
Content: Examines the framing of the Constitution, judicial review, and changing approaches to constitutional
interpretation; separation of powers and federalism; civil liberties and civil rights, including first
amendment rights, equal protection, privacy, and criminal due process.
Cross-listed as HIS 320.
451: Directed Independent Study.
Goal: To provide opportunities for students to investigate special topics of interest.
Content: Topics are agreed upon through consultation between the student and the instructor and should
receive the approval of the department chair.
452/199: Field Study.
Goal: To give students an opportunity to gain actual experience in government service.
Content: Varies with work assignment.While field study hours will count toward the maximum 48
hours permitted in the major discipline, they may not be applied toward the minimum 37 hours
required in the major.