Course Details

Covering southeast European areas once ruled by the Habsburg, Venetian, and Ottoman Empires, the course explores the following issues: the rise and fall of empires; nationalism and nation-formation; Communism and post-socialist transformations; popular culture and politics; and experiences of war, organized violence, and international intervention.

Students will gain fain factual knowledge (terminology, trends, basic structures) of Balkan societies and develop advanced skills in speaking and writing about history