HUMANITARIANISM FROM THE 19TH CENTURY TO THE PRESENT

Credit Hours: 3 · Undergraduate Upper-Level

This course surveys the history of humanitarian sentiment and practices in the West form the 19th Century to the present. It is conceived as a critical investigation of the humanitarian movement and examines various patterns of Western interventions on behalf of "suffering humanity." Topics covered are evangelicalism, abolitionism, colonialism and war humanitarianism, as well as United Nations humanitarianism since 1945.