Famine in Modern History

0.5 credits · Undergraduate

Are famines inevitable? To what extent have modern famines been caused by social, political, and economic policies rather than food shortages? This course examines several case studies of famine in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and the controversies surrounding them, from the Irish potato famine of the 1840s to Ethiopia in the 1970s. Prerequisite: 4.0 university credits or permission of the chair.