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  • HISTORY 3363: Russia: Revolution, State, and Empire

    3.00 Credits
    Temple University

    This course focuses on the rise and fall of the Soviet Union, from the Russian Revolution of 1917 until the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. It deals with major factors and events, including Communism, two world wars, and the Cold War, that shaped Soviet history. The course explores Soviet impact on European and world developments, and Soviet motives in confrontation with the United States. Reading and lectures are complimented with multi-media and Internet sources, discussions and individual presentations.
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  • HISTORY 3411: Belief and Society in Pre-Modern Europe

    3.00 Credits
    Temple University

    An examination of changes in belief systems (both religious and ideological) and their impact on, and influence by, the society around them. The course will focus especially on beliefs as understood and interpreted by the wider society, not just a few intellectuals. Focus is on diversity of belief and practice within an overwhelmingly, but not monolithically, Christian society.
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  • HISTORY 3412: Power and Conflict in Pre-Modern Europe

    3.00 Credits
    Temple University

    An examination of the kinds of power struggles that took place in Europe during the medieval and early modern period, and the military, legal, and other means used to resolve them. Struggles among monarchs and territorial magnates; the Crusades; heresy and its suppression; religious wars; and much more local and personal disputes as well.
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  • HISTORY 3413: Getting Medieval: Gender, Sex, and Power

    3.00 Credits
    Temple University

    Does Europe have a sex? Can everyday gender normativity be politically constitutive and also the occasion of excessive violence? To answer these questions we will study what bodies mattered in pre-modern Christian Europe and think about the fate of bodies that did not matter. This course explores different strategies of constructing masculinities and femininities in pre-modern Christian Europe and asks who/what had the power to universalize and discipline such fabrications. We will study how the papacy and medieval monarchies regulated gender and sexuality among Christians and also between Christians, Jews, Muslims and so-called ‘pagans’ from c 500 CE to 1500 CE and in so doing creating a powerful political notion of a territorial ‘inside’ called Europe.
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  • HISTORY 3414: Antigone and the Limits of Sovereignty

    3.00 Credits
    Temple University

    The corpse of a young warrior lies stinking in the sun, prey to birds and animals. The head of state has proclaimed a death sentence on whomever would dare to attempt its burial. To whom does the corpse belong? How does one speak out against sovereign force? The rotting corpse goes to the heart of sovereign power and its limits. How does the shameful rotting corpse tell a story about politics, technology, and the construction of the human and the inhumane? Sophocles’ Greek tragedy, performed in 442 BCE, posed this question at the height of imperial power in Athens. At other times of political crisis great poets and dramatists have used the play, “Antigone,” to remind us again of the limits of sovereign power. We will read Sophocles’ “Antigone” and study how translations and rewriting of the play have occurred during periods of political emergency in Periclean Athens, during the “terror” of French Revolution, in the aftermath of Holocaust, in the shadow of South African apartheid. How have dramatists such as Sophocles, Francis Hoelderlin, Bertolt Brecht, Athol Fugard used “Antigone” to reflect on sovereignty? We will read and compare these different renderings of “Antigone” alongside the recent work of the philosophers Alain Badiou and Giorgio Agamben who have urgently questioned once again the relation of the state to “nature” and have asked us once again to pause and consider the relation of evil to “business as usual.”
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  • HISTORY 3422: Art, Culture, and European Societies

    3.00 Credits
    Temple University

    This course examines the shift from elitist forms of representation in the arts to the increased popularization (and democratization) of European politics and culture from the 18th to the 20th centuries. Using both contextual (historical) and formal (art historical) tools for analysis, the class will trace stylistic changes in art, literature, music and the press. More specifically, this includes a consideration of political propaganda and neoclassicism during the revolutionary epoch to romanticism, realism, impressionism, and expressionism concurrent with the establishment and commercial expansion of the modern nation state. Additionally, the course will consider the “democratization” (or popularization) of visual and material culture through the lithographic press, the daily newspaper, photography, and poster publicity. The concluding unit will incorporate visual propaganda in particular European countries during the perilous decades that preceded and followed World War I.
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  • HISTORY 3425: Europe and the Other

    3.00 Credits
    Temple University

    Modern society is not the first to deal with issues of racial, ethnic, religious, gender, or sexual difference. This course explores European interactions during the late antique, medieval, and early modern periods with those they saw as different: either outside their society (from the early Roman encounters with the barbarians to the European explorations in Africa and the “New World”) or within (Jews, Muslims, women, the poor, dissidents, and deviants).
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  • HISTORY 3431: Women’s Lives in Modern Europe

    3.00 Credits
    Temple University

    This course treats issues related to women’s status and power in Modern European History from the 18th century to the present. The emphasis of the course will be on the experiences of women in England, France, Germany, and Russia where significant economic and political changes have occurred in the past few centuries. The purpose of this course is to discuss important issues that women have confronted in the past, and that continue to influence problems that women face today such as: personal, economic, and political power, education, sexuality, psychology, and social esteem, women’s position in the home and workplace plus the continuing question of conventional versus unconventional gender roles in Western Societies. To supplement a general text and several published sources in European history, students will be reading memoirs and essays written by women on economic, political, and social issues pertaining to women, work, and the family during the past two centuries.
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  • HISTORY 3433: Blood and Iron: 19th Century European Diplomacy

    3.00 Credits
    Temple University

    This course will be a survey of the history of European diplomacy from the wars of the French Revolution until the outbreak of World War I in 1914. Modern warfare, nationalism, and tremendous economic, social, and technological upheaval shaped the 19th century and fundamentally altered the way nation-states interacted. Therefore, we cannot be content in this course to study the biographies of Metternich, Napoleon III, Bismarck, and other great diplomats of the 19th century, though they will receive due attention. In order to explain the events that in many ways laid the groundwork for the world situation in our own time, we will examine cultural and intellectual movements, military and scientific innovations, and political and social changes that still affect the way nations conduct diplomacy.
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  • HISTORY 3434: Cold War from the Other Side: The Communist Countries and International History, 1945-1991

    3.00 Credits
    Temple University

    The course will explore the history of the Cold War from the perspective of the main U.S. adversaries in the Cold War: the Soviet Union and China. Also, the course provides secondary themes, covering the motives and actions of other communist countries, including Eastern European countries, Vietnam and Cuba.
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