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  • 4.00 Credits

    Covers Europe from the end of the Wars of Religion in 1648 to the fall of Napoleon in 1815. Offers a comprehensive immersion in the political, social, intellectual, and cultural history of the era, but also implicates Europe in broader world communities, especially in the Atlantic. Topics include the Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment, Absolutist, and Constitutional Monarchies in theory and in practice, the origins and development of the Atlantic economy, the increasing division between elite and popular culture, and the French Revolution and its dissemination under Napoleon.
  • 4.00 Credits

    A survey and discussion course in the history of Europe from the end of the Napoleonic era (1815) to the outbreak of World War I (1914). Addresses national and international politics, ideas and culture, economic and social change, war and society, and imperialism. More specifically, it encourages understanding of the following: the emergence of new types of communities in uncertain times; the impact of economic and technological change; the dehumanizing pressures of social anonymity in mass societies; the dependence of rule upon hidden forces of control; identity and the many ways it is constructed, expressed, and mobilized; the experience of colonial domination; and withering intellectual attacks on the West's rational tradition.
  • 4.00 Credits

    A survey of European history from 1914 to 2000 that addresses Europe's society, politics, and culture but emphasizes the conflicts of its most violent century. Topics include the impact of war in the shaping of the twentieth century, domination and control in the practice of utopianism, the challenges posed to freedom by ideological extremism, ethnic cleansing and genocide, decolonization, and the fundamental restructuring of Europe as a result of the women' s movement, the coalescence of the European Union, globalization, and the arrival of Postmodernity.
  • 4.00 Credits

    Addresses the history of Eastern Europe from 1815 to the collapse of Communist regimes at the end of the twentieth century. Attends to political, cultural, social, and everyday life in the region, including the Ottoman Empire and Turkey, but also links the region to the Middle East and East Asia. Global in scope, the course investigates such topics as the rise and carrying power of Eastern European nationalism, the Russo-Japanese War of 1905, chronic crises in the multiethnic Balkans leading to the outbreak of World War I, the tense inter-war interregnum and the creation of the modern Middle East, the Eastern Front during World War II, and the imposition and collapse of the Soviet empire.
  • 4.00 Credits

    Includes an analysis of the personality of Hitler and the Third Reich. An examination of the writings of Hitler, his contemporaries, and historians such as Allan Bullock and Hugh Trevor-Roper. Offered only in international programs.
  • 4.00 Credits

    An exploration of European involvement in North America, this course will pay attention to traditional subjects (the Puritans, the Quakers, new-world slavery, the eighteenth-century Great Awakening), while also investigating novel means of understanding the era (environmental history, the Native American perspective, the idea of an Atlantic community), and will allow students to pursue specific topics of their own choosing.
  • 4.00 Credits

    A study in the tortured and violent emergence of the United States as a nation independent from Great Britain. Beginning with the slide into rebellion, it will explore the War for Independence and the difficulties of re-establishing political authority in the 1780s, and will ask whether the Constitution and young political parties succeeded at this task. The course concludes with the second War for Independence in 1812. Meets California state requirement in U.S. Constitution for teaching credential.
  • 4.00 Credits

    Examines the origins, events, and outcomes of the American Civil War. The first section explores slavery and the economic, ideological, and political dilemmas it created as the nation spread westward. The next section details the war itself: the personalities, the battles, and the central issues of slavery's existence and the existence of the American Union. The course concludes with an evaluation of Reconstruction.
  • 4.00 Credits

    Examines the major trends of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era (1877-1920), including religion, gender, ethnicity, immigration, farm and labor movements, and other major social, intellectual, economic, and political events as well as the approaches historians have taken to understanding these elements.
  • 4.00 Credits

    A study of American society during the 1920s, the Great Depression, and the Second World War and its aftermath. Topics include economic and social change, including modernism and resistance toit, the development of the welfare state, the expansion of the presidency and executive power, demographic changes including the Great Migration of black Americans, and the role of the United States in the world.
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