POLS 4310 - Communism, Fascism, and Democracy

Credits: 3

This course addresses the nature and problems of the political system we conventionally label “democracy” and the two primary historical challenges to democracy in the 20th century in the form of “twin totalitarianism”, i.e. fascism and communism (or state socialism). The approach taken in this course is to bring together the ways in which theory and ideology, as well as actual practice, have shaped contemporary democracy and its primary challengers in the 20th century. Prereq: POLS 1310 lecture hours 3