Table of Contents - Hartwick College

210 Early Modern Europe (3 credits) This course first examines the
birth of modern Europe in the Italian Renaissance. It then considers the
religious and political forces, which shredded the fabric of Christian unity
and ushered in an age of religious and dynastic warfare that produced the
modern constitutional and absolutist states. The survey will then examine
the cultural, economic and political impact of overseas exploration, the
Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment. The survey culminates with
a close examination of the French and Industrial Revolutions. (WHS)
212 Europe, 1815-1914 (3 credits) Pivotal events in 19 th century
European History, including: Industrialization and its consequences;
political revolutions and ideologies: nationalism; the labor question; and
cultural and intellectual movements such as Romanticism. Attention will
also be devoted to the prevailing cultural assumptions about race, class
and gender which defined Europeans’ sense of identity and their place in
the world, as well as scientific and economic theories which were used to
justify European imperialism. (WHS)
213 Europe in 20th Century (3 credits) Major events in 20 th century
European history, including the origins and catastrophic nature of World
War I; the Russian revolution and Communist and Fascist challenges to
strained democratic societies; economic depression; World War II and the
Holocaust; the Cold War and the eclipse of Europe by the Superpowers;
the loss of colonial empires; reform and revolution in Eastern and
Western Europe, and the gradual formation of a more cooperative
European community; and emerging challenges of globalization in the 21 st
century (economic conflict, immigration, sustainable development).
(WHS)
215 Tudor-Stuart History (3 credits) A survey of Tudor-Stuart English
history (ca. 1485-1688), one of the most important periods of Western
European history as it shaped much of English society into the present
even as it served as a baseline for much of what would be reinforced,
continued, or altered as the English confronted the complexities of the
“New World.”
218 France – Historical Origins and Contemporary Society (1
credit) Preparatory course in second half of fall semester for January
Term course Hist 219, Imagined Communities in France.
219 Imagined Communities in France (3 credits) An interactive,
cross-cultural study of the historical construction of the French sense of
identity and the different forms of “community” (national, historical,
cultural, and religious) in which the identity of being “French” is either
invented or challenged. France will serve as a test case for some of the
broader issues in the formation of community throughout Europe. To do
this, students will travel to several sites-Paris, the capital city and heart
France as a national community; the chateaux of the Loire Valley, rich
with the legacy of the Renaissance and the consolidation of the French
kingdom; Normandy, which served as a springboard for the Norman
conquest of England as well as the Allied invasion of France in WWII;
Strasbourg, on the border between France and Germany and home to the
European Parliament; and Marseille, Arles, and Avignon, three of the
oldest cities in France, each strongly influenced in different ways by their
ties to Rome. Prerequisite: HIST 218. (WHS)
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