Early Modern Europe
HIST 202
Spring 2024 not offered
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Course Cluster and Certificates: Christianity Studies |
This introductory course surveys the history of Europe during the formative period of the modern era from 1500 to 1800. It focuses on the crucial episodes of religious and political conflicts and highlights key intellectual, cultural, and economic developments: the Renaissance, the Protestant Reformation and Catholic Reformation, the English civil war, absolutism, enlightened despotism, the rise of capitalism and plantation slavery, the scientific revolution, the Enlightenment, and the French Revolution. Representing one of the required modules for the history major, this course also provides essential historical grounding for any student interested in study abroad and in modern culture and politics. |
Credit: 1 |
Gen Ed Area Dept:
SBS HIST |
Course Format: Lecture / Discussion | Grading Mode: Student Option |
Level: UGRD |
Prerequisites: None |
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Fulfills a Requirement for: (CEAS-Arcp/Hist)(HIST-MN)(HIST)(STS) |
Major Readings:
John Merriman, A History of Modern Europe, VOL 1\ Readings in Western Civilization, VOLS, 5,7 Hernando Cortes, Five Letters of Cortes to the Emperor Nicolo Machiavelli, The Prince and the Discourses Roland Bainton, The Reformation of the Sixtenth Century Alexis de Tocqueville, The Old Regime and the French Revolution Ernest Barker, ed. Social Contract: Locke, Hume , Rousseau Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan Jean Jacques Rousseau, First and Second Discourses Edmund Burke, Relections on th French Revolution Thomas Paine, The Rights of Man Georges Lefebvre, The Coming of the French Revolution
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Examinations and Assignments:
two 4-page papers; a midterm and final test. |
Additional Requirements and/or Comments:
No late papers will be accepted. Pre-registered students must attend the first class, or they will be dropped from the class list. This class fulfills the requirement for the European concentration in the History Major; it also counts toward the pre-industrial course requirement and towards the History and Religion concentration. |
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