Undergraduate Bulletin - Loyola Marymount University

Area 1: Europe
HIST 312
Society and Culture in the Middle Ages
3 Semester Hours
An inquiry into the social and cultural developments
culminating in the achievements of the high Middle Ages
with reference to their influence on modern culture.
HIST 317
Victorian Culture and Society
3 Semester Hours
A study of class, leisure, social responsibility, gender
roles, and family life in Victorian England.
HIST 322
Revolt and Crisis in Europe
3 Semester Hours
An inquiry into the general crisis of seventeenth-century
Europe and into the emergence of new forms of political
and cultural stability.
HIST 324
Revolutionary Europe, 1750-1850
3 Semester Hours
A study of European cultural change ranging from
Romanticism to industrialization, materialism to religious
revival.
HIST 326
Nineteenth-Century Europe, 1815-1914
3 Semester Hours
An investigation into the political, social, and economic
crises of the European nations between the Congress of
Vienna and the outbreak of World War I.
HIST 327
Twentieth-Century Europe
3 Semester Hours
Europe from 1900 to the present with emphasis on
political and social history.
HIST 328
States and Nations in Eastern Europe, 1795-1991
3 Semester Hours
An analysis of the forces of nationalism and socialism in
the history of modern Eastern Europe. The course will
focus on the interrelated cases of Russia, Ukraine,
Poland, and the Baltic states.
HIST 335
Women in European History
3 Semester Hours
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An analysis of how philosophical constructs, religion,
education, employment, and family structures have
defined the role of women since the Renaissance.
HIST 405
History of Ancient Greece
3 Semester Hours
The history of Greece from its origins to the death of
Philip of Macedon.
HIST 406
Alexander and the Hellenistic World
3 Semester Hours
An investigation of the spread of Greek culture through
the lands of the successors of Alexander the Great and its
relations with the older civilizations of the known world.
HIST 407
Ancient Rome
3 Semester Hours
The history of Rome from its origins to the creation of the
empire.
HIST 408
Imperial Rome
3 Semester Hours
A study of the Roman Empire and world to the seventh
century and the end of antiquity.
HIST 410
History of the Byzantine Empire
3 Semester Hours
A study of the eastern Roman Empire to its fall in 1453.
Topics include the Byzantine recovery, the Slavic and
Moslem invasions, and the Crusades.
HIST 411
Birth of Europe
3 Semester Hours
An examination of the institutional, intellectual, and
cultural growth of Europe from 400 to 1050.
HIST 412
The Later Middle Ages
3 Semester Hours
A study of the flowering of medieval civilization in Europe
from 1050 to 1450.