Course Descriptions

GEG 280 - Geography of Genocide

3 Credits

Geography of Genocide is the spatial analysis of modern acts of genocide and other crimes against humanity. As a survey course, GEG 280 is presented through four major themes: cultural, economic, physical, and political geography. Major topics include the Ottoman mass murder of the Armenians, the Soviet Union under Stalin, Japanese war crimes in China, the Holocaust, Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge, “ethnic cleansing” in the former Yugoslavia, the genocide in Rwanda, and the crisis in the Darfur region of Sudan. Three class hours. This is a social science course.

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