HIST202

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HIST202

Early Modern Europe HIST202 SP

Spring 97 Availability (Last Updated on Thu Apr 17 05:00:17 EDT 1997 )

Section  Limit  Enrollment  Available
  01       44      0         44

This introductory course surveys the history of Europe during the formative period of the modern era from 1500-1800. It covers the major religious, intellectual, economic and political movements of these crucial centuries: the Reformation and Counter Reformation, the Scientific Revolution, the English civil war, Louis XIV and absolutism, the rise of capitalism, the Enlightenment, and the French Revolution. Required for the European History concentration, this course also provides essential historical grounding for any student interested in study abroad or in modern culture and politics.

MAJOR READINGS

Selected writings of Erasmus, Luther,
Calvin, Loyola, Galileo, Locke, Voltaire, Rousseau, Adam
Smith, and documents of the English civil war and French
Revolution; M. Chambers, ed., THE WESTERN EXPERIENCE, vol.
2.

EXAMINATIONS AND ASSIGNMENTS

Three in-class written exercises; discussion assignments.

ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS and/or COMMENTS

Unless preregistered students attend the first class meeting or communicate directly with the instructor prior to the first class, they will be dropped from the class list. NOTE: Students must still submit a completed Drop/Add form to the Registrar's Office.

COURSE FORMAT: Discussion Lecture

REGISTRATION INFORMATION

Level: UG Credit: 1.00 Gen Ed Area & Dept: SBS HIST

Prerequisites: None

Section 01: Holmes, O; Times: .T.T... 10:00AM;; Grading Mode: A/F; Registration Preference (1 high to 6 low, 0=Excluded) Sr: 4, Jr: 3, So: 2, Fr: 1; No Major Preference Given

Last Updated on MAR-10-1997

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