PSC 105 - Political Ideologies

Course unit(s): 1
Meets Explore Core requirement (students beginning Fall 2024 and later): MV
Prerequisite or corequisite: Intended for those planning to major or minor in political science.

An examination of the philosophical and historical foundations of major political ideologies of the modern era. Students will investigate how ideologies make claims about human nature, history, and the state; how they attempt to understand the relationship between socio-economic conditions and the state; how they envision a just political order; and how they prescribe and justify programs of action. Among the ideologies examined: liberalism, civic republicanism, conservatism, socialism, communism, anarchism, nationalism, fascism, Nazism, fundamentalism, and feminism.