Courses

• 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. Carries social science divisional credit in CAS.
• 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 201: 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. This course cannot be taken for credit in addition to the course with the same title that was previously numbered CAS HI 203.
• CAS HI 202: Medieval Intellectual History
  Examines the major authors and issues in philosophy, science, and political theory in the medieval Latin West, fourth to fifteenth centuries. This course cannot be taken for credit in addition to the course with the same title that was previously numbered CAS HI 305.
• CAS HI 203: Magic, Science, and Religion
  Boundaries and relationships between magic, science, and religion from late antiquity through the European Enlightenment. Topics include transformation of pagan traditions, distinctions between learned and popular traditions, Scientific Revolution, and changing assumptions about God and Nature. Also offered as CAS RN 242. This course cannot be taken for credit in addition to the course with the same title that was previously numbered CAS HI 306.
• CAS HI 204: History of the Crusades
  The origin and development of the Crusade movement in Western Christendom: the first four Crusades, their cause and results; crusader finance, preaching, and military recruitment; changing focus of Crusade movements from the Holy Land to other areas. This course cannot be taken for credit in addition to the course with the same title that was previously numbered CAS HI 308.
• CAS HI 205: Millenarian Expectations in Western History, Year 1-2000
  The role of millenarian expectations (belief in an imminent, radical transformation of the world) in the development of the modern West. Apocalyptic expectations and millenarian groups, secularization of millenarian hopes, and disappointed expectations in the emergence of modern industrial society. This course cannot be taken for credit in addition to the course with the same title that was previously numbered CAS HI 309.
• CAS HI 206: Heresy and Persecution in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries
  Studies the shared ideals and mutual antagonism of the radical Christian movements that appeared inside and outside the Church around the millennium. Traces the conflict's multiple sources as well as the emergence of Crusade and Inquisition to combat this "popular heresy." This course cannot be taken for credit in addition to the course with the same title that was previously numbered CAS HI 310.
• CAS HI 207: Honor-Shame: Middle Ages, Modern World
  Considers the dynamics of "honor-shame" cultures generally, then examines their role in the European Middle Ages and the contemporary world. Attempts to understand how other cultures can emphasize significantly different values and social interactions from Western ones. This course cannot be taken for credit in addition to the course with the same title that was previously numbered CAS HI 304.
• CAS HI 208: Renaissance Europe
  The main political, socioeconomic, intellectual, and artistic currents in Italy (c. 1350-1530) and northwestern Europe (c. 1500-1560); emphasis on leading thinkers (Petrarch, Bruni, Machiavelli, Erasmus, More, and Montaigne) as creators of the modern Western mind. This course cannot be taken for credit in addition to the course with the same title that was previously numbered CAS HI 311.
• CAS HI 209: Christendom Divided: Reformation and Religious Conflict in Early Modern Europe
  Religious change in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries centuries; the origins and causes of the Protestant Reformation; the Catholic Reformation; the resulting civil wars in the Germanies, France, and the Netherlands; and pertinent aspects of Tudor and Stuart England. This course cannot be taken for credit in addition to the course with the same title that was previously numbered CAS HI 312. Also offered as CAS RN 310.
• CAS HI 210: 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. This course cannot be taken for credit in addition to the course with the same title that was previously numbered CAS HI 204.
• CAS HI 211: 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. This course cannot be taken for credit in addition to the course with the same title that was previously numbered CAS HI 210.
• CAS HI 212: Early Modern Europe, 1715-90
  Eighteenth-century western and central Europe emphasizing Britain, France, Prussia, and Austria. Focus on international relations, military establishments, and the art of war, monarchy, and administration; the European economy; changing relations of social classes; and the Enlightenment. This course cannot be taken for credit in addition to the course with the same title that was previously numbered CAS HI 313.
• CAS HI 215: The European Enlightenment
  Survey of the intellectual and social transformation of Europe from the 1680s to the French Revolution. Readings draw on both eighteenth-century sources (including Voltaire, Diderot, Condorcet, Lessing, Smith, and Hume) and recent work by historians. Also offered as CAS PO 395. This course cannot be taken for credit in addition to the course with the same title that was previously numbered CAS HI 314.
• 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 217: 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. This course cannot be taken for credit in addition to the course with the same title that was previously numbered CAS HI 231.
• CAS HI 218: History of Contemporary Europe, 1900 to the Present
  Narrative and interpretive account of twentieth-century Europe. Emphasis 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. This course cannot be taken for credit in addition to the course with the same title that was previously numbered CAS HI 232.
• CAS HI 219: 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. This course cannot be taken for credit in addition to the course with the same title that was previously numbered CAS HI 223.

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