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Undergraduate Catalog 2014-2015 
    
Undergraduate Catalog 2014-2015 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

PS 334 - Comparative Civil Wars

3 cr.


(Prerequisites: At least one of PS 212 , PS 217 , PS 240  or permission of instructor)

The course introduces students to the comparative study of civil war.  We discuss conceptual issues, review arguments related to their origins, examine how they vary in terms of intensity, use of child soldiers, refugee movements, and violence against civilians, and investigate how they end.