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COLLEGE OF ARTS & SCIENCES
HISTORY
HISTORY OF MODERN EUROPE

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HSTEU 100 Advanced Placement (AP) European History (5) SSc
Course awarded based on Advanced Placement (AP) score. Consult the Admissions Exams for Credit website for more information.

HSTEU 108 International Baccalaureate (IB) History of Europe (5) SSc
Course awarded based on International Baccalaureate (IB) score. Consult the Admissions Exams for Credit website for more information.

HSTEU 113 Europe and the Modern World (5) SSc
Political, economic, social, and intellectual history of modern Europe. Cannot be taken for credit toward a history major if HSTEU 302 or 303 previously taken.

HSTEU 140 Russia from the Tenth Century to the Present (5) SSc
Russian political, social, and economic history from the tenth century to the present. Offered: jointly with JSIS D 140.

HSTEU 210 Paris (5) A&H/SSc

HSTEU 211 France: A Portrait (5) SSc
Thematic approach to the history of France. Abandons the conventional chronological format in favor of a constellation of topics and themes - architecture, science, sex, cities, barricades, etc. - that, taken together and in historical perspective, make up a portrait of France.

HSTEU 219 Science and the Arts in Early Modern Europe (5) SSc
Explores the role of artisanal craft practice and knowledge in the Scientific Revolution. Examines the artisanal world and its traditions of craft knowledge and follows the transmission of artisanal practice into the scholarly world of natural philosophy in the seventeenth century. Assesses the consequences for scientists and artisans.

HSTEU 220 Introduction to East European Studies (5) SSc
Introduction to the history of post-1945 Eastern Europe focusing on political, economic, social, cultural, and diplomatic issues. Countries surveyed include Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Poland, Romania, and Yugoslavia. Offered: jointly with JSIS A 220.

HSTEU 234 History of Nazi Germany and the Holocaust (5) SSc, DIV
History of Nazi Germany and Holocaust from Weimar Republic through rise of Nazis and creation of Nazi state and society to war and genocide. Focuses on social, political, and gender history. Includes transnational examination of Holocaust (especially Eastern Europe); memory and history after 1945; perspectives of outsiders in Nazi Germany, including Jews, Afro-Germans, gay men, communists; examination of debates in historiography of Holocaust.

HSTEU 240 From Riurik to Putin: Russian History through Biography (5) SSc/A&H
Introduces Russian history from ninth century to present through biographies, paintings, films, and music on Russian historical figures such as Catherine the Great and Josef Stalin. Placed in historical context, these life stories allow exploration of major themes in Russian history such as autocracy, serfdom, religion, modernization, reform, revolution. Offered: W.

HSTEU 245 St. Petersburg/Leningrad: City as History (5) SSc
Introduction of political, social, and cultural history of St. Petersburg from 1703-1991. Uses St. Petersburg as a window to explore major themes in Imperial Russian and Soviet history, including westernization and questioning of Russia's national identity, urbanization, industrialization, revolution, multinational empire, World War II, Stalinism, and socialistic reformism.

HSTEU 250 Rome (5) SSc/A&H
Focuses on Rome as an historical, intellectual, and artistic world center. Literary and historic documents, visual arts, architecture, film, and opera used to explore the changing paradigms of the Eternal City. In English. Offered: jointly with ART H 250/ITAL 250; W.

HSTEU 251 Events That Shook Modern Europe: From the French Revolution to the EU (5) SSc
Examines major events that shaped Europe, from French Revolution in 1789 to the foundation of the European Union in 1993. Wars, revolutions, social transformations, toxic ideologies, and liberation movements as milestones in the course of developments in Europe over the past two centuries. Lectures and analysis of documents from these time periods. Offered: jointly with JSIS A 251; Sp.

HSTEU 252 The Bloodlands: East Central Europe under Hitler and Stalin (5) SSc
From 1933-1945, 14 million people were killed, in cold blood, by Nazi Germany and Soviet Union regimes between central Poland and western Russia, including those starved in the Soviet Ukraine famine, victims of Stalin's Great Terror and Hitler's Holocaust, Soviet citizens starved by Nazis during World War II & Poles murdered under joint Nazi-Soviet occupation. Course investigates these fateful events through study of history, literature & film. Offered: jointly with JSIS A 252.

HSTEU 273 Women and Gender in Modern Europe (5) SSc
Examines European women's changing social role and competing views of femininity from the Enlightenment to the end of the cold war. Special focus on the relationship of gender and politics and on the female body in bourgeois society, industrialization, imperialism, the welfare state, fascism, and the cold war.

HSTEU 274 European History and Film from the 1890's to the Present (5) A&H/SSc
Introduces the histories of world war, the rise and fall of fascism and communism, postwar migrations, the Cold War and decolonization, and the making of the European Community through film. Historical content unified by methodological focus on the social and political function of film.

HSTEU 275 Life in England (5) SSc
Social history of England from the Norman conquest to the present, seen through letters, autobiographies, novels, and plays of the time. Life of the ordinary inhabitant-in the village and the manor house.

HSTEU 276 Postwar: European History and Film after 1945 (5) A&H/SSc, DIV
Explores efforts to reconstruct Europe and European identity after 1945. Assesses the successes and failures of these efforts. Addresses themes of poverty and affluence, postwar justice, Americanization, expansion and collapse of communism, decolonization, migration, and ongoing ethnic tensions that threatened new forms of warfare. Explores the history uses of film.

HSTEU 290 Topics in European History (5, max. 10) SSc
Examines special topics in European history.

HSTEU 301 Early Modern European History: 1450-1648 (5) SSc
Political, social, economic, and cultural history from the late Renaissance to the Peace of Westphalia.

HSTEU 302 17th - 18th Century Europe: Enlightenment and Revolution (5) SSc
Political, social, economic, and cultural history from the Peace of Westphalia to the fall of Napoleon.

HSTEU 303 Europe Since 1789 (5) SSc
Europe from the crisis of the old regime to the present. Specific episodes illuminate particular themes and concepts, such as the French Revolution, the Napoleonic Wars, feminism, romanticism, the creation of Germany, European empire, the Russian Revolution, fascism, the world wars, Nazism and Nazi vision for Europe, the liberation of Europe, the construction of the European Union, and Europe in a post-European age.

HSTEU 304 Cultural History of Renaissance Europe (5) A&H/SSc
Examination of Medicean Florence, late sixteenth-century France, Elizabethan England, and the baroque courts of the early seventeenth century as cultural centers. Includes analysis of painters such as Botticelli and Rubens; poets such as Ronsard and Donne; philosophers such as Pico and Montaigne; and playwrights such as Marlowe, Shakespeare and Lope de Vega.

HSTEU 305 European Witch Trials (5) SSc
Witchcraft and magical beliefs in Europe considered as a problem in intellectual, social, and legal history. Medieval background, systematization of witchcraft theory in fifteenth century; comparison of learned and popular beliefs; mechanisms of witch trials and inquisitorial procedure; the Faust legend; growth of skepticism and decline of witchcraft in seventeenth century.

HSTEU 323 France Since 1814 (5) SSc
Political, economic, and social history since the Congress of Vienna. Special emphasis upon the continuity of the revolutionary tradition.

HSTEU 334 Germany 1871-1989 (5) SSc
Society and politics from Germany's first unification to its reunification; domestic and foreign policy; political, economic, social, and cultural developments; high emphasis on German society's self-perception and on the variety of interpretations of this period's history

HSTEU 361 Spain and Its Golden Age, 1469-1700 (5) SSc
History and culture of Spain and its empire from the late Middle Ages through the seventeenth century.

HSTEU 364 Modern Greece: 1821 to the Present (5) SSc
Politics and society of Greece from War of Independence to the present. Emergence and development of the Greek state; Greece in the world wars; civil war and post-war politics; military dictatorship; transition to democracy; recent developments. No prior study of Greece assumed. Offered: jointly with JSIS A 364.

HSTEU 368 Modern European Jewish History (5) SSc, DIV
Surveys European Jewish history from the Spanish expulsion (1492) to World War I (1914). Considers diversity of European Jewryies and the factors that cohered them. Examines how European Jewries ordered their lives, shaped gender and class norms, and interacted with the societies in which they lived. Offered: jointly with JEW ST 368.

HSTEU 370 J.R.R. Tolkien: A Mythology for England (5) A&H/SSc
Explores J.R.R. Tolkien in historical context. Influence of the nineteenth-century philosophy and folklore, World War I, Germanic mythology, Oxford Christianity, and the Inklings. Primary themes include language as a source of myth, fate and free will, religion, technology and nature, heroism and war, race and evil.

HSTEU 376 Modern Irish History (5) SSc, DIV
Political and social history from 1800 to the present; the Irish Question after the Act of Union; development of Irish nationalism in the Home Rule and Sinn Fein periods; the Irish Free State and Northern Ireland since 1921; current problems in Northern Ireland.

HSTEU 378 The Making of Contemporary France (5) SSc
Historical origins and subsequent development of nine contemporary problems and characteristics of French government and politics, economy, and society.

HSTEU 380 History of Scandinavia to 1720 (5) SSc
Scandinavian history from the Viking Age to 1720, with an emphasis on the political, social, and economic development of Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Iceland from the Middle Ages to the Enlightenment. Offered: jointly with SCAND 380.

HSTEU 381 History of Scandinavia Since 1720 (5) SSc
Scandinavian history from the Enlightenment to the Welfare State with emphasis on the political, social, and economic development of the modern Scandinavian nations of Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Iceland. Offered: jointly with SCAND 381.

HSTEU 401 The Italian Renaissance: (5) SSc
Conditions of Renaissance culture: Italian republics and despots, humanism, the classical ideal of the arts, Machiavelli and the foundations of modern political thought; the end of an era.

HSTEU 402 The Reformation (5) SSc
Origins of the disunity of Europe in the crisis of the sixteenth century with emphasis on the relations between religion and politics.

HSTEU 405 European Intellectual History: Eighteenth Century (5) SSc/A&H
Development of the social sciences, moral theory, political theory, and religious thought in eighteenth-century Europe. Rationalism, empiricism, utilitarianism, and the sources of idealism.

HSTEU 406 European Intellectual History: Nineteenth Century (5) A&H/SSc
Selected topics in intellectual history up to 1890. The philosophical consequences of the French Revolution, the development of idealism, conservatism, romanticism, and early socialist theory; positivism, the problems of historicism, new forms of Christian apologetics, utilitarianism in decline, liberalism as philosophy, the early Marx.

HSTEU 407 European Intellectual History: Twentieth Century (5) A&H/SSc
Selected topics in the intellectual history of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The aftermath of Darwinism, the problems of methodology in modern social science, historicism and moral relativism, irrationalism in philosophy and social theory, revisionism in secular and orthodox religions.

HSTEU 409 The Catholic Church in Europe, 1914-present (5) SSc
Examines the Catholic Church in the context of European history since World War I. Explores politics and diplomacy as well as Catholic thought and culture in Europe. Major themes include challenges presented to the Church by Nazism, Communism, secularization, and Islam.

HSTEU 411 Europe: 1814-70 (5) SSc
Development of Europe during the age of Metternich, the revolutions of 1848, and the emergence of new national states.

HSTEU 412 Europe in the Age of the Masses: 1870-1914 (5) SSc
Impact of population increase and technological change on European society; stresses and strains in European life and outlook.

HSTEU 413 Europe: 1914-45 (5) SSc
Politics and society of Europe in the age of the concentration camp.

HSTEU 414 Europe Since 1945 (5) SSc
Political, economic, and military developments in Europe under the impact of the Cold War.

HSTEU 415 The Second World War (5) SSc, DIV
Our world was created by the Second World War. It emerged from the nexus of mass mobilization, industrialized warfare, and racialized extremism. Its end ushered in the atomic age, the Cold War, and the United Nations. This course explores why the Second World War happened, how it unfolded, how it was experienced on battlefield and home-front; how it affected minorities (like Jews, gay men, Japanese-Americans); and how it has shaped our own time.

HSTEU 422 The French Revolution and Napoleon: 1789-1815 (5) SSc
Transformation of France under the Revolution of 1789; the Reign of Terror and Napoleon; the impact of the revolution and Napoleon upon Europe.

HSTEU 432 Germany: 1914-1945 (5) SSc
Politics and society from the collapse of the Bismarckian empire to the collapse of Hitler's empire.

HSTEU 435 World War I (5) SSc
European society on the eve of the war. War experience of the Europeans. Long term consequences of the war on European social, political, and economic institutions. Impact of the war on non-European world. The war in European literature.

HSTEU 444 Imperial Russia: 1700-1900 (5) SSc
Development of Russia from Peter the Great to Nicholas II. Offered: jointly with JSIS A 444.

HSTEU 445 The Rise and Fall of the Soviet Union (5) SSc
Russia and the USSR from Nicholas II to the present. Offered: jointly with JSIS A 445.

HSTEU 451 East-Central Europe Since 1342 (5) SSc
Explores the history of the lands and peoples of East Central Europe (Poles, Czechs, Slovaks, and Hungarians).

HSTEU 452 Eastern Europe Since 1918 (5) SSc
Explores the history of Poland, the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Slovakia from the end of World War I to the present.

HSTEU 453 History of the Balkans, 1400 to the Present (5) SSc
Centuries of Ottoman rule that produced a new basis for the reemergence of independent states in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries; history of these new states until the present.

HSTEU 454 Baltic History (5) SSc
Overview of the history of the area occupied by the Baltic countries of Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia. Emphasizes their emergence as modern European nation-states. Era from World War I to present treated in depth, including the historical role and present situation of non-Baltic peoples, particularly Russians. Offered: jointly with SCAND 454.

HSTEU 464 The Jews in Spanish History (5) SSc
Sephardic Jews in Spanish politics, economy, and culture, emphasizing the medieval Golden Age and the Inquisition. Offered: jointly with JEW ST 468.

HSTEU 465 The Jews of Eastern Europe (5) SSc
Jewish society in Poland, Russia, the Hapsburg Lands, and Romania from the late Middle Ages to the Holocaust. Offered: jointly with JEW ST 465.

HSTEU 470 The Jacobethan Age: England 1580-1630 (5) SSc
Emphasizes arts and society instead of traditional kings, battles, and politics; the way people at all levels of society lived, in towns and in the countryside, within the bounds of the royal court or outside in the political wilderness. Poetry, drama, music, architecture, painting, interior decoration, some of the minor arts. Demography and some of the traditional historical subjects. Not open for credit to students who have taken 471 or 472.

HSTEU 471 England in the Sixteenth Century (5) SSc
Political, administrative, and social history from Henry VII to Elizabeth I, with emphasis on the Reformation and its effects and on conditions of life in Elizabethan England. Not open to students who have taken HSTEU 470.

HSTEU 472 England in the Seventeenth Century (5) SSc
Political, administrative, and social history from the accession of James I to the Glorious Revolution. Not open to students who have taken HSTEU 470.

HSTEU 474 Britain at its Imperial Peak (5) SSc
Political, social, and cultural transformations in the world's first industrial nation; the rise of parliamentary democracy; "Victorian" sexuality;" utilitarianism and laissez-faire theory; Britain's enormous empire; and the stubborn "Irish Problem."

HSTEU 475 Britain in the Twentieth Century (5) SSc
From the Boer War to the present; conservatism, liberalism, and socialism; Britain in two world wars; the decline of British imperialism.

HSTEU 477 From 13 Colonies to Brexit: Making and Un-Making of the British Empire (5) SSc, DIV
Explores history of British empire from the American Revolution to the recent Brexit vote, focusing on role of empire in fostering connection, oppression, and anti-colonial resistance. Considers what life was like for British citizens and subjects around the world, paying particular attention to shifting definitions of Britishness over time.

HSTEU 482 Fascism in Europe (5) SSc
History of the fascist era in modern Europe from 1919 to 1945. A study of the principal examples of national fascism and fascist-like movements coupled with a general theoretical consideration of the phenomenon.

HSTEU 490 Topics in European History (5, max. 10) SSc
Examines special topics in European history.

HSTEU 501 Renaissance Field Course (3-6, max. 6)
Topics in the cultural, political, and social history of the Renaissance era.

HSTEU 502 Reformation Field Course (3-6, max. 6)
Topics in the religious, political, and social history of the Reformation era.

HSTEU 505 Early Modern European History (3-6, max. 18)
Select topics in early modern European history. Topics vary from quarter to quarter. Prerequisite: permission of instructor.

HSTEU 506 Modern Europe: Writings and Interpretations (3-6, max. 6)
Study of historians, schools of history, and interpretations of modern European history.

HSTEU 510 Core Seminar in the History of Modern Europe (5-)
An introduction to historiographical classics and exemplary new works in the various fields of modern European history. Members of the seminar choose research topics and present the results of their research to the seminar.

HSTEU 511 Core Seminar in the History of Modern Europe (-5-)
An introduction to historiographical classics and exemplary new works in the various fields of modern European history. Members of the seminar choose research topics and present the results of their research to the seminar.

HSTEU 512 Core Seminar in the History of Modern Europe (-5)
An introduction to historiographical classics and exemplary new works in the various fields of modern European history. Members of the seminar choose research topics and present the results of their research to the seminar.

HSTEU 513 Europe and the Modern World I (5)
Provides an acquaintance with some of the themes, problems, and events in the history of modern Europe, 1789-1914, including Europe's larger global engagements. Offers foundation for advanced thematic or regional study, a basis for comparative historical study within Europe and beyond, and preparation for teaching entry-level and advanced undergraduate surveys.

HSTEU 515 Modern European Intellectual History (3-6, max. 6)

HSTEU 516 Seminar: European Intellectual History ([3-6]-, max. 6)

HSTEU 517 Seminar: European Intellectual History (-[3-6], max. 6)

HSTEU 521 Modern European History: France (3-6, max. 6)

HSTEU 522 Seminar in French History ([3-6]-, max. 12)

HSTEU 523 Seminar in French History (-[3-6]-, max. 12)

HSTEU 524 Seminar in French History (-[3-6], max. 12)

HSTEU 531 Modern European History: Germany (3-6, max. 6)

HSTEU 532 Seminar in Modern European History: Germany ([3-6]-, max. 12)

HSTEU 533 Seminar in Modern European History: Germany (-[3-6]-, max. 12)

HSTEU 534 Seminar in Modern European History: Germany (-[3-6], max. 12)

HSTEU 542 Imperial Russia Historiography (5)
Familiarizes students with the historiographical traditions and trends in the field of Imperial Russian history. Focuses on approaches, major issues, and debates in historical writing.

HSTEU 543 Empire and Nationalism in Russian History (5)
Explores cultural diversity in Imperial Russian history. Examines the role of nationality, cultural diversity, and "Russianness" through issues of identity, nationality policies, and ideologies. Pay particular attention to the development of the nationalistic discourse in Imperial Russia.

HSTEU 544 Modern Russian History (3-6, max. 6)

HSTEU 545 Seminar in Modern Russian History ([3-6]-, max. 12)
Prerequisite: reading knowledge of Russian and either French or German.

HSTEU 546 Seminar in Modern Russian History (-[3-6]-, max. 12)
Prerequisite: reading knowledge of Russian and either French or German.

HSTEU 547 Seminar in Modern Russian History (-[3-6], max. 12)
Prerequisite: reading knowledge of Russian and either French or German.

HSTEU 548 Field Course in Soviet History (3-6, max. 6)
Specialized course for graduate history students in the scholarly literature of Russian history since 1917. Intended for graduate students preparing for MA or Ph.D. field examination in Russian history of the Soviet period.

HSTEU 551 History of Eastern Europe: 1772-1939 (5)
Study of the east-central European region: Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania, and the Balkan countries, from their rebirth to World War II. Prerequisite: reading knowledge of German, French, Russian, or one East European language.

HSTEU 552 History of Eastern Europe: 1939 to the Present (5)
Prerequisite: reading knowledge of one major European or one East European language.

HSTEU 553 Seminar in Modern East European History ([3-6]-, max. 6)
Study and research involving special methods dealing with the histories of the East European countries in the modern period.

HSTEU 554 Seminar in Modern East European History (-[3-6]-, max. 6)
Study and research involving special methods dealing with the histories of the East European countries in the modern period.

HSTEU 555 Seminar in Modern East European History (-[3-6], max. 6)
Study and research involving special methods dealing with the histories of the East European countries in the modern period.

HSTEU 571 English History: Tudor and Stuart (3-6, max. 6)

HSTEU 572 English History (3-6, max. 6)

HSTEU 573 Seminar in Modern English History ([3-6]-, max. 6)

HSTEU 574 Seminar in Modern English History (-[3-6], max. 6)

HSTEU 575 Seminar in Tudor-Stuart History ([3-6]-, max. 12)
History of England under the Tudors and the Stuarts. Prerequisite: HSTEU 571 or permission of instructor.

HSTEU 576 Seminar in Tudor-Stuart History (-[3-6], max. 12)
History of England under the Tudors and the Stuarts. Prerequisite: HSTEU 571 or permission of instructor.

HSTEU 590 Topics in History (5, max. 15)
Seminar on selected topics in general history, with special emphasis on preparation for field examinations. Topics vary according to interests of students and instructor.