HIST 142

Fall 2021 Part of Term 1

Part of Term 1
Aug 23-Dec 8

Western Civ Since 1660

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Credit: 3 hours.

Fundamental developments - social, economic, cultural, intellectual, and political - in the history of mankind and Western society since 1660; includes the rise of modern science, the French and Industrial revolutions, the Romantic movement, the growth of nationalism and socialism, imperialism, urbanization, the Russian Revolution, Nazi Germany, the world wars, and the West and the developing world.

Credit is not given for both HIST 142 and HIST 143.

Students must register for one discussion and one lecture section.

This course satisfies the General Education Criteria in Fall 2022 for:

Humanities – Hist & Phil

Cultural Studies - Western

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HIST 142 class schedule data for fall 2021
CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
34091	Discussion/ Recitation	ADC	10:00AM -10:50AM	F	Gregory Hall	Coskun, N Fritzsche, P	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/23/21-12/08/21 Degree Notes: Humanities - Hist & Phil, and Cultural Studies - Western course.
34055	Discussion/ Recitation	ADD	11:00AM -11:50AM	F	Lincoln Hall	Coskun, N Fritzsche, P	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/23/21-12/08/21 Degree Notes: Humanities - Hist & Phil, and Cultural Studies - Western course.
34060	Discussion/ Recitation	ADF	1:00PM -1:50PM	R	David Kinley Hall	Coskun, N Fritzsche, P	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/23/21-12/08/21 Degree Notes: Humanities - Hist & Phil, and Cultural Studies - Western course.
34096	Lecture	AL1	11:00AM -11:50AM	TR	Noyes Laboratory	Fritzsche, P	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/23/21-12/08/21 Degree Notes: Humanities - Hist & Phil, and Cultural Studies - Western course. Section Info: Topic: Western Civ Since 1660 Description: The political and economic revolutions which changed fundamentally the Western world will be the focus of this course. How do historians account for the tremendous industrial power assembled in a few short decades by European societies, or the dramatic sequence of rebellion and revolution? We will explore the impact of the French Revolution and the Industrial Revolution on ordinary workers, peasants, and also on the world at large. The course will examine the great burst of intellectual activity in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and discuss nationalism, liberalism and socialism. The twentieth century, on the other hand, saw unprecedented destruction and horror. For this reason, we will look closely at the world wars, and at life and society in Hitler's Germany and Stalin's Russia. And Europe today? The postwar division of the continent, the "dirty wars" of decolonization, the rise of a consumer society, and the revolutions of 1968 and 1989 provide the course with its final themes. Throughout the course, we will look at the politics of war and revolution, and the accomplishments of philosophers and statesmen, but also pay attention to the lives and beliefs of ordinary people.