IDS 311: CONFLICT IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY

From an interdisciplinary perspective this course will cover the following: the Irish Civil War; the Australian, Turkish, British experience during WWI; the Pacific Theater of battle during WWII; the Holocaust in Poland; events in Indonesia in 1965; the atrocities of the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia; South Africa in the 1970’s under apartheid; and the Rwandan conflict between the Hutu and Tutsi tribes in 1994. We will examine these events in social, economic, cultural, and military contexts through the use of literature, biography, non-fiction, and film.