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Apr 27, 2024
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Goucher College 2012-2013 Undergraduate Catalogue PLEASE NOTE: This is an archived catalog. Programs are subject to change each academic year.
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PSC 274 - Mapping Political Ideologies (3-4 Cr.)
This course is designed to clarify some of the terms deployed (often incorrectly) in contemporary politics and to set them in historical and contemporary context. Terms like liberal and conservative, but also socialist, communist, and fascist, have (often contested) histories and are amenable to nuance and debate. The course will explore works reflecting on this history and debate, as well as introducing key primary texts in each tradition. Thinkers studied will include (but will not be limited to) John Locke, John Stuart Mill, Adam Smith, Edmund Burke, Karl Marx, V.I. Lenin, Robert Owen. Prerequisite: . Alternating fall semesters. First offered Fall 2013. Templer.
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