HNRS 136 - Modern & Contemporary History

Institution:

King's College - Pennsylvania

Subject:

Honors

Description:

This course surveys the meanings of "Western Civilization" since the three great modern revolutions - the Scientific, Industrial, and French - with an emphasis on the social and cultural forces and ideas that have shaped Western societies. In coordination with other honors classes on Literature, Philosophy, and Theology, this class will emphasize the political, social, cultural, and economic perils and possibilities encountered by the "Western World" since the 17th century. Subjects discussed in the class will include: the invention, defense, and transformation of the "West" and "Western Civilization" and its perils and possibilities; the revolutionary transformation of daily life by new science and technologies; visions of a global economic interdependence arising out of rapid industrialization and urbanization; new understandings of the world created and mirrored by revolutions in art and literature; the rise of a mass consumer culture; socialism and socialist humanism; feminism; colonialism; decolonization and the collapse of European Empires; evolutions in understandings of sex and leisure; the creation and disintegration of the Soviet Union and socialist regimes in Eastern Europe; conflicts among evolving, ascendant, and declining social classes and interest groups; contestation over cultural forms; and liberal democracy and its discontents.

Credits:

3.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.kings.edu

Phone Number:

(570) 208-5900

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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