This course is an introduction to political theory for majors and non-majors. Particular emphasis will be given to core concepts relevant to question of political life such as power, freedom, obligation, rights, and to essential themes such as democracy, representation, citizenship, and the proper relationship of the individual to the state. Through reading primary and secondary texts, we will examine modern and contemporary political ideologies such as liberalism, conservatism, socialism, communism, fascism, radical Islamism, and those arising from liberation and ecological movements.