100 Level
101 The Growth of National States in Europe
Staff
This course examines national states after 1450; conflict
for domination in Europe and world-wide commercial and colonial ambitions; Renaissance
culture, Protestant revolt, Spanish ascendancy; seventeenth-century French absolutism and
constitutional government in England; Austria, the weakened Germanies, rise of Prussia and
Russia; eighteenth-century liberalism; and the French Revolution, Napoleonic conquest and
European settlement of 1815.
102 Europe in Crisis since 1815
Staff
This course studies European civilization in the nineteenth
century; Metternich and conservative reaction; the revolutions of 1848; Louis Napoleon,
the unification of Italy and Germany in mid-century; the Industrial Revolution, the growth
of socialism and liberal reform; the new imperialism and the alliance system after 1870;
the background of World War I; the Russian Revolution of 1917; Versailles and the failure
of the League of Nations; and depression, fascism and the origins of the Second World War
to 1939.
103 American History to 1877
Staff
This course is a broad survey of key patterns, events and
the history of peoples in America from ca. 1500 to 1877. It covers the breadth of Native
American life and the effects of European settlement; the colonial and constitutional
periods through the age of reform; the crisis of union; the Civil War and Reconstruction.
Using lectures, discussions, slides, movies and student research, the course prepares
students for upper-level courses in early American history.
104 The United States since 1877
Staff
A survey of United States history from the era of
Reconstruction to the present. Topics include the rise of industrialism and the response
to it by farmers and workers; Populism and Progressivism; women's suffrage and the modern
women's movement; the World Wars, the Cold War, Korea and Vietnam; the New Deal and public
policy; the cultural convulsions of the 1920s and 1960s; the victories and frustrations of
the Civil Rights movement; and the post-Cold War period.
105 East Asia to 1600
D. Robinson
A survey of Japan and China up to 1600. Topics include the
growth of national states and governments; the development of military and political
elites; systems of landholding; and the development of commerce and exploration.
106 East Asia since 1600
D. Robinson
A survey of Japan and China from 1600 to the present. Topics
include imperialism; industrialism and economic change; the growth of socialism and
communism; and the two World Wars.
107 Colonial Latin America
C. Townsend
This course covers the formative stages of Latin American
history from the pre-Colombian era through the wars of independence in the early
nineteenth century. The course opens with a study of Native American cultures, then
considers the kinds of fusion and conflict that occurred in the wake of the arrival of
Europeans and Africans. It ends with the challenges to and collapse of the colonial
system.
108 Modern Latin America
C. Townsend
This course familiarizes students with the national period
of Latin American history from the wars of independence to the present. The class covers
the colonial legacy, the struggles to create nation-states, the region's relations with
the outside world (most notably the United States), the problems of democracy and
development and the revolutionary option.
109 The Atlantic World, 1400-1800
A. Barrera
This course examines encounters between
Europeans, Africans, and Indians during the first period of the Atlantic
World, 1400s to 1800s. The region's struggles under colonialism, the
varying reactions to independence and the modern world, the dynamic
rivalry between the highlands and the coast, and the modern political and
economic tensions endemic in the area.
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