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3.00 Credits
A survey of the intellectual history of Europe in the early modern period, including the growth of skepticism and the secularization of thought, the scientific revolution, the Enlightenment and the creation of a liberal climate of opinion, and the origins of modern political and economic theory.
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An examination of such intellectual currents as romanticism, liberalism and conservatism, nationalism, socialism and capitalism, and social Darwinism. Attention will be paid to the development and maturation of these currents in the 19th century, and their modification in the 20th century.
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The major political, economic, intellectual and social developments in Europe from the French Revolution to the outbreak of World War I.
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3.00 Credits
A study of the forces shaping contemporary Europe. Attention will be paid to World War I and its impact, the Versailles settlement, liberalism and democracy in the 20th century, the challenge of totalitarian systems, the Second World War, the Cold War, West European unification, and disintegration of the Eastern Bloc.
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Examines European mastery of the oceans from the beginning of long-distance trade with Africa to colonization and empire-building in Asia and the Americas. Emphasis on the competing interests of states and the building of a world system.
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Treats the history of ideas as an inter-disciplinary approach to both intellectual history and the history of European society.& Topics will vary with the instructor.
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An analysis of economic growth, economic policy and social change in Europe from the medieval period to the present, including a discussion of the contemporary European economy.
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Prerequisites: Traces the history of Europe from the waning days of the Roman Empire through the dawn of a new era in the early 16th century. The focus will be on the slow evolution of political and religious power - lordship and monarchy, empire and church - and the experience of medieval Europeans as subjects of this power. Students study the complex interplay between official and popular religion, the changing understandings of nobility, the relationship between Christians and non-Christians, and the place of minorities - heretics, religious minorities, lepers, vagabonds - in a hostile world.
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Traces the history of Europe from the mid-14th century through the mid-16th century with a special focus on Italy. The focus is on the slow transformation of Europes political elites and their self-representation in literature and the visual arts. Also, students study the working classes of the city and countryside, whose labor made possible the cultural achievements of the period.
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Traces the reformation movements of the 16th and 17th centuriesthe Protestant Reformation and the Catholic Reform. The various strands of this movement were attempts to provide an answer to the fundamental Christian problem: what must I do to be saved? Students study the answers provided to this question by such thinkers as Martin Luther, Ulrich Zwingli, John Calvin, St. Teresa of Avila, and St. Ignatius Loyola. Students discuss how their ideas affectedand were affected bycontemporary social and political affairs, paying special attention to the appeal of their message to women, the urban working classes, and peasants.
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