Concentration Track 2. European History

In studying Europe, we examine the long trajectory of its history and civilization, from ancient Greece and Rome to contemporary questions such as the role the European Union plays in world affairs, or the continued importance of national identity within Europe in the twenty-first century.  In the European History concentration, students explore the diversity that exists within Europe, focusing in on specific topics in politics, culture, religion and religious conflict, social class and class mobility, art, and architecture.  Students also learn about Europe's profound influence on the world--European "exports" in the last 500 years have incuded Christianity, industrialization, nationalism, liberalism, Marxism, Freudian psychology, and European technologies of war.  In studying European history, students examine the implications of colonialism for the world and for Europe itself.  In addition to reading scholarly works by historians, students will learn to evaluate, analyze, and develop their own historical arguments about primary sources such as parliamentary papers, police reports, journalism, memoirs, letters and diaries, drama, novels and poetry, as well as film, photography and other works of art.

HST 211-212 British History I, II

HST 213 The British Empire and Commonwealth

HST 264 The History of Italy

HST 265 Spain: History Topics and Society

HST 266 Topics in European Politics, Society and History

HST 274 Women in Nineteenth-Century Europe

HST 275 Women in Twentieth-Century Europe

HST 279 The Spanish Civil War:  1936-1939 

HST 303 Law, Culture and Society in the Ancient World

HST 304 Imperial Rome

HST 311 Law, Culture and Society in the Middle Ages

HST 312 Renaissance and Reformation Europe

HST 322 The French Revolution and Napoleon

HST 325 Exploration, Colonization and Imperialism

HST 331 Capitalism: A History

HST 336 Fifth-Century Athens

HST 338 Ancient Greece and Ancient Israel

HST 339 From Pagan Reason to Christian Revelation

HST 384 Military History of the Modern World

HST 407 German History, 1517-1871

HST 410 Class and Social Control in Europe, 1830-1914

HST 411 Europe, 1815-1914

HST 412 Europe in the Twentieth Century

HST 414 Nazi Germany

HST 415 Ireland: From the Celts to the Present

HST 416 Contemporary Czech Culture and Art

HST 417 Czech Cultural and Intellectual History 

HST 418 Czechoslovakia and Central Europe

HST 419 Czech History, Culture, and Society

HST 420 Romanticism and National Identity in Central Europe

HST 421 Intellectual and Cultural History of Modern Europe, I

HST 422 Intellectual and Cultural History of Modern Europe, II

HST 425 The Enlightenment and the Eighteenth Century 

HST 426 Culture and Politics in Europe, 1919-1939

HST 427 Religion and  Society in Early Modern Europe

HST 430 Catherine II - Russia's Empress 1762-1796

HST 433 The Russian Revolution

HST 434 New Europe: Before and After Glasnost

HST 507  Prague Spring Study Tour