Instructor Class Description

Time Schedule:

• Winter Quarter 2013

Guntis I. Smidchens
SISRE 465
Seattle Campus

Baltic States Since 1991

Intensive interdisciplinary survey of social, political and economic developments in Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania since 1991. Offered: jointly with SCAND 455.

Class description

This interdisciplinary course gives an intensive introduction to social, political and economic issues in the Baltic since 1991, with emphasis on the situation after the Baltic countries joined the EU and NATO in 2004.

Student learning goals

General method of instruction

Recommended preparation

Class assignments and grading

Reading assignments and class discussions will include critical analysis of primary and secondary source materials. Students will write a research paper related to current issues in the Baltic.

Grades will be based on the following:

Class participation and responses to readings: 40% Final Examination: 10% Research Paper (proposal, bibliography, outline, draft, final) 50%

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