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Course Criteria
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1.00 - 4.00 Credits
Independent Study
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1.00 - 4.00 Credits
Field Experience
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4.00 Credits
The study for history has traditionally focused on the actions and ideas of "Great Men" and their influence on major events in politics, diplomacy,and intellectual discovery. Social history, on the other hand, emphasizes the perspectives of ordinary women and men: it has been said that social history is "history from the bottom up."
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3.00 Credits
One of the fundamental factors in the European colonization of the western hemisphere was the development of new systems of slavery and the articulation of new ideologies of racial difference to legitimate their use. African slaves performed the hard manual labor on tropical plantations that enriched a small class of Portuguese, Dutch, Spanish, English, and American planters and supplied the world with sugar, tobacco, rice, and cotton. Yet many slaves also worked on smaller farms, as skilled artisans, as domestic servants, and as urban laborers. Slavery was not a single system; it was, on the contrary, a collection of practices and ideologies that varied significantly across time and space. From the sixteenth through the nineteenth century, and from Latin America, across the Caribbean, and into North America, slavery appeared in diverse forms. This course will take a comparative approach to the history of slavery and racial ideology in a cross-section of times and places.
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4.00 Credits
This course is designed to present selected pivotal aspects of the development of economic thought from its formalized beginnings as a species of moral philosophy through the development of political economy and its emergence as the behaviorally and policy-oriented social science of economics. The course will address itself to the changing answers leading theorists have given to the most basic questions of man's material life. How do humans behave in that setting? And what combination of policies and institutions most nearly accommodate wants and constraints within the context of the formative goals of the society? Mere inventories of our inheritance of ideas are not enough. We need to analyze them among our permanent possessions. Such is the intent of the course. Also listed as Economics 317.
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4.00 Credits
The course will concentrate on the continental Protestant and Catholic Reformations with extensive reading of primary sources and periodical literature. Economic, intellectual, political, and social trends will also be examined as well as the interrelationship between aesthetic trends and history. A major theme of the course will be the waning of the Middle Ages and the tentative beginnings of the modern era.
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4.00 Credits
The course will emphasize the English Protestant Reformation of the 16th and 17th centuries and the English Revolution of the 17th century. Considerable attention will likewise be given to the development of the first colonial empire and the conditions which caused people to migrate to the New World. Constitutional developments and political thought pertinent to American history will be discussed. Students will read extensively in primary sources. Recommended for pre-law students.
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4.00 Credits
The course will emphasize the development of the modern British constitution and its impact upon the world; Britain's role as a world and colonial power; the rise of British socialism; and the decline of Britain as a world power. The core of the course will be concerned with the rise of Britain as the first industrial nation and the impact which industrialism had upon Britain both internally and externally.
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4.00 Credits
The rise of Prussia and the Germanies in the eras of the French Revolution, Napoleon, and Metternich; the establishment and subsequent career of the Second Empire; the Weimar Republic; and Nazi Germany.
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4.00 Credits
This course will survey the basic political, social, cultural, and economic developments in Europe during the last century. It will cover how Europe was transformed from a continent at war to one now sharing peace and prosperity. We will highlight main events such as World War I, the Russian Revolution, the rise of Fascism, the Holocaust, the Cold War, the fall of Communism, and the break-up of the USSR. By surveying these events, we will take into consideration ideas like nationalism, capitalism, communism, feminism, and other ideologies that have affected Europeans in the late 20th century. Finally, this class will attempt to cover not only the large countries of Europe, but will also discuss how smaller nations were affected.
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