Revolutions is a course that focuses on a major aspect of the changes that occurred from the American and French revolutions to the end of the nineteenth century that fundamentally altered important dimensions of European life. These revolutions led to significant changes for essentially all human societies. The transformations can be political, philosophical, religious, cultural, social, scientific, or industrial, or in the interplay of these various realms. Students will learn about why the important transformations occurred and what their significance was, focusing both on whose situation worsened—and on the nature of the losses—and on whose improved and how. While the temporal focus is on the ‘revolutionary’ time-period itself, the course also draws explicit and extended connections to modern world.
For transfer students only.