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3.00 Credits
Was the Enlightenment a unified body of thought generated by an established canon of "great thinkers" or were there many areas of contradiction and divergence? This course examines the European Old Regime in light of its political, social, economic, cultural, and religious structures; it analyzes the great thinkers Diderot, Montesquieu, Rousseau, Voltaire, Locke, Beccaria, and others. Did these thinkers, and others who are not part of the established canon, reconfigure Europe upon a model of progress that led to greater religious, political, and social reform? Prerequisite of HIS 1 or the permission of the instructor is required.
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3.00 Credits
Tracing the political, social and economic history of France from the reign of Francis I to Louis XVI, this course will examine religious crisis and war, political instability and absolutism and the art, architecture and political culture of the age. How did French monarchs bankrupt their people to make their state great, and what were the repercussions of their actions? Prerequisite of HIS 1 or the permission of the instructor is required.
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3.00 Credits
A study of the social, cultural, economic, and political structures of the Old Regime as causes of the Revolution of 1789. This course provides an assessment of the radicalization of the Revolution, the Reign of Terror, and the rise and role of Napoleon. Prerequisite of HIS 1 or the permission of the instructor is required.
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3.00 Credits
This course is a study of the impact of political, social, economic and religious upheaval in 17thand 18th-century Europe. Topics include: popular culture, religion, mysticism, the rise of toleration, political and legal thought, theories of revolution, the Scientific Revolution, the Enlightenment and pre-Romantic currents. Prerequisite of HIS 1 or the permission of the instructor is required.
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3.00 Credits
This course provides an introduction to the experience of women and the social and cultural construction of gender in the confrontation with modernity. It examines how women contributed to larger trends in European history of the 19th and 20th centuries and explores how ideas about gender and sexuality shaped that history. Topics to be studied include: women and revolution, the shifting nature and meaning of women?s work in industrial urban society, middle-class models of domesticity, the history of feminism, and the role of the state, industry, and science in shaping women's roles in the home, the workplace, and in civil society. Prerequisite of HIS 1 or the permission of the instructor is required.
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3.00 Credits
An examination of family structures and daily life between the Renaissance and the French Revolution. It investigates the experiences of childhood, adolescence, marriage and widowhood as well as orthodox and unorthodox alternatives to family life. Prerequisite of HIS 1 or the permission of the instructor is required.
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3.00 Credits
Covers the era of Civil War, Reformation and revolutions that occurred in England between the 15th and 17th centuries. Students will study the competing political ideologies and practices, religious dissent and reform, massive population growth and rural development, the discovery of the New World, the rediscovery of classical learning, and the expansion of merchant capitalism. Prerequisite of HIS 1 or the permission of the instructor is required.
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3.00 Credits
After the 1707 unification of England and Scotland, the newly named Britain rose to become the most powerful nation in the world by 1800. Students will study historical changes both within Britain, such as economic and technological innovations, the development of the public sphere and the rise in literacy, new political ideologies, and religion, and the expansion of Britain's involvement in the world. Prerequisite of HIS 1 or the permission of the instructor is required.
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3.00 Credits
What links the Truce of God, the Treaty of Westphalia, the Hague Convention for the Pacific Settlement of International Disputes, the YMCA, the UN,the European Union and the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers? They all represent attempts by governments, nongovernmental groups, and/or private enterprises and individuals to construct and intergovernmental, non-governmental and super governmental instructions, organizations, frameworks, networks in cooperation on various issues on an international or global scale. This course explores the historical development and evolution of these efforts, with a concentration on the profusion of organizations, treaties, and networks since the turn of the twentieth century, and which represent a counterweight to the impression of the past century as a one defined by global hot and cold conflicts. Prerequisites of HIS 2 or permission of instructor is required.
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3.00 Credits
A survey of the nineteenth century that investigates the origins and development of major concepts, ideologies, and institutions like the nation state, the welfare system, capitalism, social democracy, communism, and nationalism. The course also follows the lives of European men and women, exploring the impact of urbanization, industrialization, social and cultural change on gender roles, male-female, and family relationships and seeks to make students aware of the ambiguities inherent of the notion of "progress" associated with nineteenth-century developments. Prerequisites of HIS 2 or permission of instructor is required.
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