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Course Criteria
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4.00 Credits
Examination of Absolutism and the European state system; the social and economic system of pre-industrial Europe; and the rise and decline of the principal powers, including Spain, the Low Countries, France, and Prussia.
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4.00 Credits
This course introduces students to the history of France in the 18th century and the Revolution of 1789. Examines social classes, the economy, intellectual changes, and various interpretations of the French Revolution and the debates surrounding them. Will also survey the Revolutionary and Napoleonic eras and their impact on Europe.
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4.00 Credits
This course examines the history of Spain from the late-medieval period through the 17th century from social, cultural, political, economic, and religious perspectives. Addresses key developments in Iberian peninsula including encounters with Americas, the rise of absolutism, and the Catholic and Counter-Reformations. Evaluates implications of historical interpretations of both Spain's "Golden Age" and its reputed "decline."
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4.00 Credits
A study of economic change and social upheaval precipitated by the French Revolution and the industrialization and urbanization of Europe. Emphasis on social class structure, urban life and problems, workers' and middle-class responses to industrialization, and imperialism.
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4.00 Credits
A survey of the political and diplomatic problems of post-Napoleonic Europe; the revolutions of 1848; Napoleon III and the Second Empire; problems of national unification in Germany, Italy, and Austria-Hungary; the Third French Republic; Russia's attempt to modernize; the Turkish Empire and Balkan nationalism; the coming of World War I.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture and group discussion approach to some of the major cultural, social, political, and economic developments in Europe since 1914; social and cultural impact of two world wars; totalitarianism and the decline of empire; emphasis is placed on the Cold War and events since 1945.
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4.00 Credits
Course will analyze variety of life experiences of European women from 1300 to 1700. Will consider methodological issues that have shaped recent practice of women's history, and will examine the variety of women's roles in late medieval and early modern society including religion, economy, culture, and politics.
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4.00 Credits
Course will examine social, cultural, economic, and racial aspects of radical Right Wing politics which made the Fascist movements such pervasive phenomena in Europe between the two world wars. The bulk of the course will be devoted to the Nazi and Fascist movements in Germany and Italy and to the development of racial ideology culminating in the Holocaust.
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4.00 Credits
This course focuses on the social history of the Western Front during World War I (especially Belgium, France and Britain). It aims to go beyond statistics and battle reports and allow students to become immersed in the war experience of the combatants and non-combatants by reading history, novels, poetry, viewing films and images, listening to music, and through class discussion.
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4.00 Credits
Survey of political, social, economic, and cultural developments in Russia from the ninth century through the 19th century. Topics include the growth of the Russian autocratic state, evolution of institution of serfdom, position of the nobility, the emancipation of the serfs, formation of the intelligentsia, and the beginnings of the revolutionary movement.
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