GOVT 3413 - [Modern European Society and Politics]

(crosslisted) SOC 3410
(SBA-AS)

Spring. Next offered 2016-2017. 4 credits. Letter grades only.

A. Kuo.

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, social policy, political parties, social movements, immigration, 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)