2018-2019 Graduate Catalog 
    
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2018-2019 Graduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

POLI 644 - Contemporary Political Ideologies


Credit Hours: 3
Lecture Hours: 3
Lab Hours: 0

This course is intended to examine the theory and practice of capitalism, socialism, democracy, anarchism, elitism, fascism, and communism. The welfare state will be examined also. Focus will be on comparison and contrast of significant philosophical and theoretical differences among different political ideologies as well as upon various schools of theory within any given ideology. The practical influence and impact of various ideologies as well as their historical and philosophical justifications will also be analyzed.