Provides the student with an in-depth study of the social and political concepts of community. Attention is focused on how recognition of community brings into play the tension between individual and collective/group rights. Course lectures, reading assignments, and in class discussion provide an overview of the following topics: interpretation/hermeneutics of community, roots of community theory, myth of community, quest for community, Chirstian community, recognition of minoritiy communities in politics, problems associated with the concept of community, recognition of group rights, the libral-communitarian debate over community, and the problems associated with communitarian theory.