2020-2021 Academic Catalog 
    
    Oct 08, 2024  
2020-2021 Academic Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

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PSC 201 - Political Ideologies

1 course unit
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.
Intended for those planning to major or minor in political science.



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