Examines the history of modern Europe from 1600. Topics may include religious conflict, absolutions, the Scientific Revolution, the global impact of European colonialism and imperialism, the Enlightenment, the French and Industrial Revolutions, and the emergence of romanticism, nationalism, liberalism, socialism and modernism. Concludes by analyzing World War I and II, communist and fascist totalitarianisms, decolonization and the Cold War. Approved for GT-HI1. Meets MAPS requirement for social science: general or world history. Approved for arts and sciences core curriculum: historical context. Formerly HIST 1020
Recommended restriction: History GPA of 2.0 or higher. May be repeated up to 6 total credit hours. Requisites: Requires prerequisite course HIST 3020 (minimum grade C-). Restricted to students with 87-180 credits (Senior, Fifth Year Senior) History (HIST) majors (excludes minors).
Recommended restriction: History GPA of 2.0 or higher. May be repeated up to 6 total credit hours. Requisites: Requires prerequisite course HIST 3020 (minimum grade C-). Restricted to students with 87-180 credits (Senior, Fifth Year Senior) History (HIST) majors (excludes minors).
Recommended restriction: History GPA of 2.0 or higher. May be repeated up to 6 total credit hours. Requisites: Requires prerequisite course HIST 3020 (minimum grade C-). Restricted to students with 87-180 credits (Senior, Fifth Year Senior) History (HIST) majors (excludes minors).
Explores the history and culture of Western Europe, 1300--1520. Comprehensive in scope, with analysis of political, economic, social, religious, intellectual, and artistic matters. Discusses significance of the Renaissance for origins of modern civilization. Recommended prereq., HIST 1010. Requisites: Restricted to students with 27-180 credits (Sophomores, Juniors or Seniors) only.
Traces the history of Europe from the end of the Hundred Years War through the Thirty Years War. During this period Europe experienced tremendous changes including emerging religious heresies, the advent of the Spanish Inquisition, violent civil wars, the witch craze, and the Thirty Years War, a precursor to the World Wars of the twentieth century. Recommended prereq., HIST 1010 or HIST 1113. Requisites: Restricted to students with 27-180 credits (Sophomores, Juniors or Seniors) only.
Studies the development of the European states in response to international power struggles in the 17th and 18th centuries (up to the French Revolution). Same as HIST 5222. Requisites: Restricted to students with 27-180 credits (Sophomores, Juniors or Seniors) only.
Studies the history of Europe from the end of the Thirty Years War through the outbreak of the French Revolution. Central themes include the establishment of more centralized, increasingly bureaucratic states; global expansion and economic commercialization; and cultural developments such as the Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment. Recommended prereq., HIST 1020 or HIST 1123. Requisites: Restricted to students with 27-180 credits (Sophomores, Juniors or Seniors) only.
Concerned with major social, political, and cultural developments in Europe from circa 1800 to the outbreak of World War I. Special emphasis is placed upon the Napoleonic experience, the rise of modern nationalism, romanticism, Darwinism and its social applications, the Industrial Revolution, imperialism, the emergence of modern ideologies, and the background of World War I. Recommended prereq., HIST 1020. Requisites: Restricted to students with 27-180 credits (Sophomores, Juniors or Seniors) only.
Examines the origins, character, and significance of the First and Second World Wars for the major nations of Europe during the first half of the 20th century. Recommended prereq., HIST 1020. Requisites: Restricted to students with 27-180 credits (Sophomores, Juniors or Seniors) only.
Examines the origins of World War I; the military, social, and cultural character of the conflict; and its enduring impact in the post-1918 world. By thinking about the war as both a military undertaking and an experience that affected domestic and global politics, the course will explore why World War I constituted an event of major importance to Europe and the twentieth-century world. Recommended prereq., HIST 1020. HIST 4422 and 5422 are the same course. Requisites: Restricted to students with 27-180 credits (Sophomores, Juniors or Seniors) only.
Explores Europe from the end of World War II through the present day. Topics include postwar reconstruction; the cold war; anticommunist opposition and new social movements; consumer culture and punk music; the fall of communism; the Yugoslav wars; and European unity. Recommended prereq., HIST 1020. Requisites: Restricted to students with 27-180 credits (Sophomores, Juniors or Seniors) only.
Acquaints students with key works in the literature of European history, and addresses matters of method and interpretation. May be repeated up to 6 total credit hours. Department enforced requisite: admission to the graduate program in history. Requisites: Restricted to graduate students only.
Examines the origins of World War I; the military, social, and cultural character of the conflict; and its enduring impact in the post-1918 world. By thinking about the war as both a military undertaking and an experience that affected domestic and global politics, the course will explore why World War I constituted an event of major importance to Europe and the twentieth-century world. Recommended prereq., HIST 1020. HIST 4422 and 5422 are the same course. Requisites: Restricted to graduate students only.
