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History 107: Modern Europe Since 1789

This course will cover the late-eighteenth century to the present, and topically we will discuss politics, the role of the individual, social differentiation, science, philosophy, culture, nationality, gender, and more.

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History 204: Historical Methodology

This course is not a content course. We will be learning the process of how historians do what they do from finding source, to analyzing and contextualizing, to communicating those findings to a wider audience.

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History 254: Russia: Quest for the Modern

We will begin our survey of modern Russia in the late-nineteenth century as the country was undergoing tremendous social and economic change.  We will pursue a thematic study of the attempts and failures to create a modern utopia. The course will conclude by assessing Russia today in light of its turbulent past.

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First Year Seminar

Utopias, Dystopias, and Engineering “Progress”

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