Fall 2017 - HIST 106 D100

The Making of Modern Europe (3)

Class Number: 2960

Delivery Method: In Person

Overview

  • Course Times + Location:

    Sep 5 – Dec 4, 2017: Tue, 2:30–4:20 p.m.
    Burnaby

  • Instructor:

    Ilya Vinkovetsky
    ivink@sfu.ca
    1 778 782-4306
    Office: AQ 6244

Description

CALENDAR DESCRIPTION:

An introduction to the major political, social, economic, cultural, and intellectual developments that have formed modern European society. Breadth-Humanities.

COURSE DETAILS:

This course surveys the historical conditions that shaped European society, politics, culture, and thought from the 1700s to the present. It explores dramatic changes in the nature of the state, work, technology, consumption, ideology, and war. We will seek a deeper knowledge of how Europeans made sense of their own lives, their origins, and the world around them differently over time in response to these transformations. Topics include the Enlightenment; the French Revolution; the origins and development of nation-states and the persistence and metamorphoses of empire-states; industrialization and class society; urbanization and mass politics; the Russian Revolution; liberalism, communism, and fascism; world wars and the cold war; decolonization; globalization and the so-called new world order. Students will read primary and secondary sources in order to decipher events and historical contexts and to make plausible, evidence-based arguments about historical change in tutorial discussions and in writing.

Grading

  • Tutorial participation 20%
  • Short assignments 10%
  • Midterm Exam 25%
  • Primary source analyses 15%
  • Final Exam 30%

Materials

REQUIRED READING:

Joshua Cole and Carol Symes, Western Civilizations: Their History & Their Culture. Volume 2. 19th ed. New York & London: W. W. Norton & Company, 2017. 

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