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Political Ideologies

Course code

RIP6002.YK

old course code

RIP6002

Course title in Estonian

Poliitilised ideoloogiad

Course title in English

Political Ideologies

ECTS credits

4.0

Assessment form

Examination

lecturer of 2023/2024 Spring semester

Not opened for teaching. Click the study programme link below to see the nominal division schedule.

lecturer of 2024/2025 Autumn semester

Not opened for teaching. Click the study programme link below to see the nominal division schedule.

Course aims

The aim of the course is to give an overview of major political ideologies and the main topics connected with them. To help understand how decisions and choices of political parties and other political agents are connected to these ideologies.

Brief description of the course

Political ideology and its main topics. Liberalism, neoliberalism, social-liberalism. Conservatism, neoconservatism, Christian-democracy. Social-democracy, (euro)communism, Third Way. Nacionalism. Facsism and natiionalsocialism. Anarchism. Feminism and its subgenres. Green ideology and its subgenres. "The End of Ideology" and postmodern view of ideologies.

Learning outcomes in the course

Upon completing the course the student:
- has basic knowledge of major political ideologies and differentiate between them;
- knows the main philosophers and theorists of different ideologies;
-can identify the arguments and political perspectives while reading the documents of political parties;
-if needed, generates simpler political suggestions based on main arguments and values of a certain ideology.

Teacher

Nawal Shaharyar

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