CONN 346 | Understanding Fascism

This multidisciplinary course explores theoretical approaches to explaining and understanding the emergence of fascism and related social movements in various time periods from the 1600s to the present. Readings range from classical political economy and political theory, to 20th Century analyses from the perspectives of business theorists and psychologists, to legal theorists, philosophers, playwrights, novelists, sociologists, and beyond. On completion of the course students will have a grounding in a variety of explanations regarding fascism¿s causes, ideological tendencies, consequences, persistence, and decline in its various forms and iterations. Further, students will have access to a variety of methods and approaches appropriate to the analysis of fascist and related movements that will allow them to document, model, and assess political and social possibilities related to historical and contemporary data.