LAS452 Political Geography

This course emphasizes the spatial structure of political behavior including the effects of the economic globalization process, the unexpected eruption of separatist movements among national minorities, the failure of attempts to transplant the European nation-state system to parts of the colonial world, and the importance of geopolitics to the formation of new political orders. Territorial features of states such as frontiers, boundaries, secondary divisions, ethnic/national groupings, and the historical/social- economic factors that affect the form, organization and operation of the state and groupings of states will be examined. 5 Quarter Hours. Counts in the Social Science Area of General Education Requirements.

Distribution

GenEd-Social Science