HIST 361

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Euro Thght & Soc Since 1789

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Credit: 3 hours.

Examines the reciprocal relationship between thought and society in western Europe from the French Revolution to the present.

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HIST 361 class schedule data for fall 2015
	CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
	34178	Lecture-Discussion	A	9:30AM -10:50AM	TR	307 Gregory Hall	Lubelski, L	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/24/15-12/09/15 Section Info: This course focuses on the intellectual history of Europe from the Enlightenment to the European Union. We will explore changes over four centuries in intellectual discourses surrounding individual rights, industrialization, colonialism and imperialism, ontology and metaphysics, socialism and communism, modern science, modern technologies such as the cinema, music, the ideologies of fascism, the justifications for parties of the far right since 1945, European integration, Islam in Europe, and the Ukrainian Civil War. We will read, discuss, and write about thinkers, composers, artists, filmmakers, and politicians including Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Olympe de Gouges, Karl Marx, Florence Nightingale, Charles Darwin, Arthur Schopenhauer, Richard Wagner, Rudyard Kipling, Sigmund Freud, Leni Riefenstahl, Simone de Beauvoir, Andre Bazin, Jean-Luc Godard, Michel Foucault, Jean-Marie and Marine Le Pen, Theo van Gogh, Vladimir Putin, Angela Merkel, and Donald Tusk. Our big topics for the term will include the Enlightenment, the French Revolution, Colonialism and Imperialism, the birth of Communism, Darwinian Evolution, Psychoanalysis, Music, Fascisms, Feminism, Cinema, Islam, and European integration. Students are expected to read and to participate in classroom discussions as well as to give a presentation, write response papers and a research paper, and take two exams. The student will come away from the course with a better understanding of the intellectual currents that have shaped Europe since the eighteenth century.