HI371
Nation-Building
History & Political Science
College of Liberal Arts
Subject Code
HI
Number
371
Title
Nation Building
Description
This course provides an exposure to the challenges of crating or re-creating nations after a period of crisis and upheaval. Whether following wars, grants of independence from foreign rule, or human rights atrocities, countries must undertake political, economic, and social reforms to construct stable, popularly accepted, and economically viable polities. How have nations tried to accomplish this complex task in the past hundred years? Historical case studies may be drawn from Africa, the Caribbean, Europe, and Asia. 3 Lecture hours. Prerequisite: C or better in one 200 level history course.
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Department or School
College
College of Liberal Arts