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2024-2025 Undergraduate Hill Book 
    
2024-2025 Undergraduate Hill Book

POL 347 - Nationalism and Ethnic Conflict

3 Credits
Offered Fall
The course reviews major theories on ethnicity and nationalism. It seeks to explain the conditions under which ethnic identities are mobilized, and the causes and consequences of these identities. The course will probe the relationship between nationalism and liberalism, but will focus more directly on international ethnic conflicts. The course will review the existing data on patterns of ethnic conflicts and civil wars, asking the students to engage with the questions of peaceful conflict management.

Core Curriculum Attribute(s): Diversity, Power, and Resistance Global Perspectives History and Social Science   
Note: Students registered for this course are eligible to apply for the Learning Inside Out (LION) international internship and professional development program.