This course surveys modern European political, intellectual and social history from the French Revolution through the present. The course surveys different models of imperialism in the late 19th century and the legacy of imperialism for the modern world. Beginning with the outbreak of World War I, analyzes in detail the kaleidoscopic nature of contemporary American life. Emphasizes the shift from traditional values to modern relativism and secularism, the benefits and liabilities of being a world power, and the impact of great personalities as the nation threaded its way through depression, wars, scandals, and technological advance. Emphasizes the development of modern nation states in Latin America and the emerging significance of Latin America to world politics.
Students are under the supervision of an on-site supervisor and an academic advisor.
May be repeated once for a maximum of eight units. This is a seminar style course on the History of Women in Europe from the eighteenth century to the present. Using methods of social and intellectual history, the course will focus on how women shaped, and were shaped by, the social, political and economic revolutions of Western Europe. The concept of gender will be used as an analytical tool to facilitate a broader understanding of traditional historical categories such as Enlightenment, industrialization, liberal bourgeois culture, colonialism, socialism, and totalitarianism. This course focuses on a few of the most influential students of right living, reading their recommendations and studying their lives.