HI 324 History of Modern Europe
This course will begin as Columbus sailed west across the Atlantic Ocean in the hopes of reaching the East Indies. A momentous year in European and world history, the course will focus on the critical shifts in Europe as religion, politics, the rule of law, and the enlightenment of man all move Europe from an age of magic and peasants to an age of science and the state. Modern European history will track how the Age of Exploration became an Age of Revolutions and ultimately an Age of Extremism all the while European nations came to control physically and economically, much of the wealth and people on the earth. The class will examine what was gained and what was lost as the certainties of man’s achievements and perfectibility in the 19th century gave way to the horror of man’s barbarity and failures in the 20th. This is a survey class designed to introduce students to European history and the historical methods and arguments used to analyze history as well as the toolbox used by the historian. For majors, this will be categorized under the World concentration.
Offered
As Needed