• Enabling the students to understand ideology and practice of fascism in order to develop a notion of sensitivity concerning current political developments
• Enabling the students to understand the relation of fascism to socio-political structures having begun to dominate within the framework of the outcome of contemporary nation states since the French Revolution
• Enabling the students to understand differences and common grounds between world views and ideologies.

Enabling the students to understand political, social, economic and cultural reasons for the emergence and rise of authoritarian/totalitarian movements, and furthermore to understand, analyze and evaluate specific reasons for their coming into power in certain countries