Course Objectives
- 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