50:510:101
Western Civilization I (G) (R) (3)
A broad view of the society we live in and the ideals we live by, starting with the ancient Near East, Greece, and Rome and continuing through the "divine right" monarchies and the revolutions of the 17th century.
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50:510:102
Western Civilization II (G) (R) (3)
Continuation of 50:510:101, with emphasis on the Enlightenment, the French Revolution, industrialization, socialism, imperialism, and the wars of the 20th century.
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50:510:280,281
Introductory Topics in European History (G) (3,3)
A theme in European history.
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50:510:305
The Fall of Rome (G) (3)
The disappearance of the Roman empire during the third, fourth, and fifth
centuries AD as invaders conquered the West.
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50:510:315
The Renaissance and the Reformation (G) (3)
The Renaissance as an age of both tradition and discovery, when elite urban Italians created the idea of individual achievement and the rest of Europe appropriated this notion. Also examines the effects of "humanism" on religion and on common people.
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50:510:321
Absolutism and Enlightenment in France and Europe (G) (3)
Traces the development of the absolutist modern state and how the Enlightenment of thought formed the ideological basis of the French Revolution. Examines how European monarchs created machines for governing and how philosophers criticized these systems and, in reaction to tyranny, developed ideas of human progress.
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50:510:322
The Era of the French Revolution and Napoleon (G) (3)
Considered by some to be the greatest single event in human history, the French Revolution shook the world. Examines how and why this social and political explosion took place in France, how it affected the world, and why Napoleon and his warring ways were the outcome of such a cataclysmic event.
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50:510:325
Europe in an Age of Revolutions: 1789 to 1914 (G) (3)
Political
and social ideas and movements between the outbreak of the French Revolution and the outbreak of the First
World War. Emphasis on conservatism, liberalism and radicalism,
nationalism, socialism and communism, feminism, and racism and militarism.
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50:510:331
Europe in the Era of the Two World Wars: 1914 to 1945 (G) (3)
The causes, the course, and the consequences of the two greatest cataclysms of modern times.
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50:510:332
Europe since the Second World War: 1945 to the Present (G) (3)
Emphasis on the Cold War, postwar rebuilding, the end of the overseas empires, and the fall of Communism.
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50:510:351
Tudor and Stuart England (3)
Considers religious, political, and social
developments from the Protestant Reformation through the 17th century in Tudor and Stuart England.
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50:510:380,381
Special Topics in European History (G) (3,3)
A theme in European history.
Open to majors and nonmajors.
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50:510:499
Independent Study in European History (BA)
Independent reading under the supervision of a member of the department.
Prerequisite: Permission of a faculty supervisor.
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