POSC 553 - Ethnicity and Nationalism:The Politics of Identity

Institution:

Pepperdine University

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Description:

A research-oriented seminar that will engage in a sophisticated examination of the key issues connected with ethnicity, nationalism, and transnationalism. Themes to be explored include primordialist, modernist, and post-modernist views of identity; national territoriality and its catalysts; interactive nationalism and subordinate group separatism; diaspora politics; and the utility of autonomy and ethnic federalism in managing multi-national/multi-homeland states. Case studies in a variety of world regions will enable students to engage in comparative analysis of these main themes. (Same as INTS 553.)

Credits:

4.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.pepperdine.edu/

Phone Number:

(310) 506-4000

Regional Accreditation:

Western Association of Schools and Colleges

Calendar System:

Semester

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