A study of major political theories, including anarchism, conservatism, liberalism, nationalism, fascism, socialism, communism, postmodernism and religious political movements. A survey of major political and social theorists will also be explored such as Plato, Ibn Khaldun, Machiavelli, Hobbes, Locke, French revolutionaries, John Stuart Mill, Thomas Jefferson, Andrew Jackson, Karl Marx, Lenin, Mao as well as contemporary political movements in Asia, Africa, and Central/South America.