2018-19 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
    Apr 25, 2024  
2018-19 Undergraduate Catalog [Archived Catalog]

HIS 207WI - Europe and the Modern World

(4 credits) (Writing intensive)
(European/World history) This course traces a basic outline of European history from the European Middle Ages to the modern West. Topics covered include the breakup of Christendom, the development of modern science. Europe’s colonization outside its borders, the Atlantic revolutions, and the evolution of modern society through the 20th century. Students will learn to work with basic documents in European history as well as a few significant arguments from historians. The student’s primary work will be document studies and essays using such documents to test explanations by historians. In this way, students should be able to express their understanding of primary documents and relevant historian’s arguments.

Prerequisite: Historical Perspectives course or permission of instructor.