WAR AND PEACE (PO3060)

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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
Discipline: 
PO (Politics)
Type: 
Regular
Level: 
Undergraduate
Credits: 
4
Can be taken twice for credit?: 
No
Pre-requisites: 
College Level=Junior OR PO1011GE110 OR PO1012 OR PO1011CCR
Co-requisites: 
None
Equivalencies: 
WAR AND PEACE (HI3060)

Learning Outcomes

  1. academic initiation into Polemology - the sub-dsicipline of sociology and political science
  2. academic initiation into quantitative research applied to the study of warfare
  3. 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.)
  4. knowledge on the causes of warfare during the most significant periiods of conflict between the end of the Middle Ages and the present

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