May 3, in history:
In 1469, Niccolo Machiavelli, Italian politician, writer, historian and philosopher, was born. The renaissance diplomat is best known for his 1513 treatise, The Prince, in which an “ends justify the means” idea of politics employs being sneaky, cunning, and having no moral code. Today he is often called the father of modern political philosophy.
In 1802, Washington, D.C., was incorporated as a city.
In 1921, West Virginia imposed the first State Sales Tax.
In 1937, Margaret Mitchell s novel Gone with the Wind won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
In 1952, the first landing of an airplane at the North Pole occurred.
In 1960, the Anne Frank House museum opened in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Department of Peace and Conflict Studies to close; three Masters courses cut
The courses will be replaced by a single new degree to “ensure the long term sustainability” of the University’s postgraduate programs.
April 14, 2021
The University of Sydney will close its Department of Peace and Conflict Studies at the end of the year. Three postgraduate programs in the School of Social and Political Sciences the Masters of Peace and Conflict Studies, Human Rights, and Development Studies will all be discontinued. A new Master of Social Justice will replace the cut courses.
A University spokesperson said the changes were made “in order to ensure the long term sustainability of our important postgraduate programs.”
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