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Ethnic Politics I, Fall 2003
(Complete Item Description)
- Abstract:
This course is designed to provide students with a broad overview of the major theories on the relationship between ethnicity and politics. The first section discusses ethnicity as a dependent variable. This section studies the forces that shape the development of ethnic identities and their motivating power. The second section addresses ethnicity as an independent variable. In other words, it focuses on how ethnicity operates to affect important political and economic outcomes. Graduate students from all subfields and methodological backgrounds are encouraged to take the course regardless of their previous level of acquaintance with ethnic politics.
- Subject:
- Social Sciences
- Grade Level:
- Post-secondary
- Collection:
- MIT OpenCourseWare
