Nov 22, 2024
OHIO University Undergraduate Catalog 2024-25
HIST 3840 - Ethnic Cleansing in Modern European History
Studies ethnic cleansing as a central issue in European history - including Europe’s colonies. Ethnic cleansing (for much of the 20th century termed “population transfer” or “expulsion”) was a policy initiated by numerous great and minor powers from the beginning to the end of the 20th century and provides important perspective on the development of human rights law and state and nation building (and empire breaking) throughout this time. Also considers how the legacy of ethnic cleansing lives on in international relations, politics, the arts, and the popular attitudes and culture of the victims and perpetrators of ethnic cleansing, and their relations toward one another and in the broader international community.
Requisites: (Soph or Jr or Sr) and Warning: not credit if taken after HIST 369N
Credit Hours: 3
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture
Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
Learning Outcomes:
- Students will be able to distinguish between various kinds of expulsion - including those initiated by non-state actors, state, and super-state/multi-national authorities.
- Students will be able to evaluate the relationship of different kinds of political, ideological, artistic and religious ideals of community building and breaking as they relate to ethnic cleansing/expulsion.
- Students will be able to evaluate, critique, and assess the claims/needs of state actors of the internal and military security of various polities as these claims relate to expulsions.
- Students will be able to identify similarities and differences between the practice of population transfer/expulsion within continental Europe as well as on Europe’s periphery and in Europe’s colonies.
- Students will study and be introduced to change and continuity in the practice of ethnic cleansing/expulsion in the course of Modern European History.
- Students will study and understand different approaches to nationalism in Europe - especially Central and Eastern Europe.
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