POSC 157: Modern Dictatorships

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Units: 4

Hours: Lecture, 3 hours; extra reading, 2 hours; written work, 1 hour

Catalog page 569

Prerequisites: upper-division standing or consent of instructor

Description: Considers how dictatorships come to power and abuse that power. Also explores the dilemmas dictatorships faced, their successes, and why they met ultimate defeat. Includes study of dictatorships in Argentina, Chile, Haiti, Guatemala and Syria.

Credit: Credit is awarded for only one of POSC 157 or POSC 157S.

Derived Information — The following is not part of the official catalog but is computed from catalog data.