To achieve the grade 12, students
should meet the following learning objectives with no or only minor
mistakes or errors: At the end of the course students should be
able to:
- demonstrate knowledge about central political and economic
thinkers of the Western world from antiquity to today,
- describe, compare, and discuss central ideas from the history
of Western political theory, economics, and ideology
- relate historical and theoretical arguments to present day
political and economic issues,
- take a critical view of the application of political and
economic concepts and theories in current public
discourse.
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The course presents and discusses central thinkers in the
history of Western social sciences, political theory, economics,
and ideology. It covers normative and analytical or theoretical
ideas from antiquity to the contemporary
world, such as the origins and functioning of the
state, individual freedom, the purpose of society, the ideal
government, liberal democracy and other systems of governance, and
macroeconomic problems such as the origins of wealth and growth,
problems of production and distribution, economic crises,
unemployment and inflation.
Focus is on the origins of contemporary political and economic
ideas and on the trajectories of the specialized modern social
sciences with a special emphasis on the evolution of, and the
disciplinary divisions between, sociology, economics and political
science.
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