History

• CAS HI 100: Freshman History Seminar
  Focusing on provocative themes and dramatic moments, these seminars introduce the art of historical writing while cultivating practical skills. Students learn how to analyze historical literature and debates as well as primary sources such as memoirs and fiction. Freshman only, carries Writing Program credit (CAS WR 100).
• CAS HI 101: The Dawn of Europe: Antiquity to the Renaissance
  Covers the origins and rise of Europe, with emphasis on Greek and Roman antiquity, medieval institutions, the Renaissance city-state, and religious reform. Typical readings may include Thucydides' Peloponnesian War, The Bible, Machiavelli's The Prince, and Luther's Christian Liberty.
• CAS HI 102: The Emergence of Modern Europe: Renaissance to the Present
  Political and religious change; Enlightenment and Revolution; industrialization and the nation state; and modernity, the World Wars, and their consequences. Typical readings may include Rousseau's Social Contract, Marx and Engels' Communist Manifesto, and Silone's Bread and Wine.
• CAS HI 150: Freshman Writing and Research Seminar
  These seminars bring students out of the classroom and into the archive and library. Students hone their detective skills by learning how historians investigate the past through primary sources including diaries, novels, government documents, and scientific treatises. Satisfies WR 150 requirement.
• CAS HI 151: The Emerging United States to 1865
  Colonial society and the roots of the American Revolution; federalism, nationalism, Jeffersonian democracy; Jackson and democratic capitalism; expansion and imperialism; slavery and civil war.
• CAS HI 152: The United States since 1865
  Reconstruction, industrialism, and recent social movements; labor and populism, imperial expansion, progressive politics, World War I, 1920s prosperity and the Great Depression, the New Deal, World War II, and the Cold War.
• CAS HI 175: World History I: Origins of Humanity to ca. 1500
  Interrelationships among major world civilizations of Asia, Africa, the Americas, and Europe to 1500.
• CAS HI 176: World History II: 1500 to the Present
  Interrelationships among major world civilizations of Asia, Africa, the Americas, and Europe from 1500 to the present.
• CAS HI 200: The Historian's Craft
  Required introductory course for concentrators, normally taken in their sophomore year. Intended to develop critical reading and analytical skills in history. Works examined are drawn from different fields and periods. Weekly written exercises, oral reports, and class discussions.
• CAS HI 203: History of Medieval Europe
  Traces the evolution of medieval civilization from the fourth to the fourteenth centuries. Emphasizes three main themes: the political and social development of western Europe, the evolution of Latin Christianity, and the role of popular culture.
• CAS HI 204: Europe between Renaissance and Revolution
  Surveys the key movements that transformed European culture, politics, and intellectual life between the fifteenth and eighteenth centuries: the Renaissance, Protestant and Catholic Reformations, new age of science and exploration, absolutism and constitutional monarchy, Enlightenment, and French Revolution.
• CAS HI 210: The Age of Discoveries
  European discovery, colonization, and exploitation of the non-European world from the fifteenth century to the seventeenth: material, political, and religious factors; Columbus and his legacy; the importance of European events to overseas developments; and the rise of the Protestant maritime powers.
• CAS HI 215: Political and Cultural Revolution
  Comparative historical analysis of modern and contemporary revolutionary upheavals and cultural change in Europe, the Americas, East Asia, Africa, Middle East, and the former Soviet republics. Examines the challenges posed by modernization, crisis of legitimacy, nationalism, imperial decline, and globalization.
• CAS HI 216: Women and Gender in European History
  An overview of women's public and private roles and the attitudes that have shaped these roles from the Middle Ages to the present. The cultural construction of femininity and its social, economic, and political consequences for European women.
• CAS HI 223: Jews in the Modern World
  The Jewish nation in the Ottoman Empire; social and economic effects of European emancipation; rise of modern antisemitism; intra-European and cross-Atlantic immigration patterns; the Holocaust; the state of Israel and modern Jewish identity.
• CAS HI 231: History of Europe, 1815-1914
  Survey of Europe from the Congress of Vienna to World War I. Development of liberalism, nationalism, socialism, democracy, science, and technology; their conflict and accommodation with traditionalism and conservatism. The Industrial Revolution and economic growth. Increasing complexity of international relations leading to world war.
• CAS HI 232: History of Contemporary Europe, 1900 to the Present
  Narrative and interpretive account of twentieth-century Europe. Stress on sociopolitical and cultural aspects of the topic, the impact of World War I, the Communist and Fascist revolutions, the loss of European significance after World War II, and the emergence of the European Common Market.
• CAS HI 235: The Culture of World War I
  Studies World War I through works of literature, art, and music. Themes include initial optimism, the brutal reality of the trenches, and consequences of the peace. Works by Owen, Sassoon, Brooke, Kandinsky, Picasso, Grosz, Mahler, Stravinsky, Berg, Jünger, Céline, Woolf.
• CAS HI 259: Colonial British America from Settlement to Revolution
  Examines central themes of change in European, Native American, and African populations in North America from the European settlement to the outbreak of the American Revolution. Topics include southern plantations, New England Puritanism, and pluralism in the middle colonies.
• CAS HI 275: Science and Technology in World History
  Surveys developments in the history of science and technology in world history from the invention of agriculture to twenty-first century globalization. Examines how science and technology grow and the ways in which they interact in the ambient culture.

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