GOVT 3413 - [Modern European Society and Politics]

(crosslisted)
(also SOC 3410) (SBA-AS)

Spring. 4 credits.

Next offered 2013-2014.

S. Van Morgan.

This survey course provides an interdisciplinary overview of European social and political issues. Themes of the course will include, but will not be limited to, the political development of the nation-state, modes of governance, welfare state restructuring, party systems and elections, social movements, immigration and demography, culture and identity, external relations, and the special challenges posed by European political and economic integration. A series of background and contextual lectures will be complemented by presentations given by leading Europeanists.
(CO)