Focuses on causes and consequences of European military conflicts and the historical transformations resulting from peace settlements. Examines the European Wars of Religion, the Napoleonic wars, the Franco-Prussian War, the Treaty of Portsmouth, the Paris Peace Conference and the Versailles Treaty as well as World War Two and the Yalta Conference. The approach is interdisciplinary, combining history and political science.
Code
PO3060
Name
WAR AND PEACE
Credits
4
Pre-requisites
College Level=Junior OR PO1011GE110 OR PO1012 OR PO1011CCR
Co-requisites
None
Equivalencies
Can be taken twice for credit?
No
Discipline
PO (Politics)
Level
Undergraduate
Type
Regular
CAMS ID
2909
Last update with CAMS
awareness of the interdisciplinarity of research on warfare and peace-buildng (through the study of interacting theories from historians, political scientists, sociologists, psychologists, geographers and specialists in environmental studies, philosophers etc.)
academic initiation into Polemology - the sub-dsicipline of sociology and political science
academic initiation into quantitative research applied to the study of warfare
knowledge on the causes of warfare during the most significant periiods of conflict between the end of the Middle Ages and the present