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Laura Hilton: Courses
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Lech Walesa |
History 111: The Emergence of the Modern World, I
This course surveys selected aspects of world history from 1200 to 1800. It traces the political, economic, intellectual and cultural institutions and trends of various world societies in Africa, Asia, the Middle East, Europe, and the Americas.
History 112 : The Emergence of the Modern World, II
This course surveys selected aspects of world history from 1789 to the present. It traces the political, economic, intellectual and cultural institutions and trends of various world societies in Africa, Asia, the Middle East, Europe, and the Americas.
History 315 : The Holocaust
This course provides an overview of the state-sponsored murder of millions of Jews and non-Jews by the Nazis and their collaborators during the Second World War. It examines important historical factors that occurred before the Third Reichís rise to power, the development of policies aimed at Jews and other ìundesirableî elements of the population, and how those persecuted responded to them, the path of the Final Solution and the aftermath and legacy of the Holocaust.
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| Professor Hilton (left) and students on a field trip to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. in 2004. |
History 318: Nineteenth Century Europe
This course deals with the political, economic and cultural development of Europe from the French Revolution (1789-1799) to the beginning of the First World War (1914-1918).
History 320: Twentieth Century Europe
This course analyzes significant events and trends in modern Europe from the First World War to the present. Special emphasis is given to Great Britain, France, Germany, the Soviet Union, and Poland.
History 321: Early Modern Europe
This course covers the period from the late Renaissance (1450) through the Enlightenment (1780). It deals with such topics as the late Renaissance, the Scientific Revolution, the Reformation and Counter-Reformation, the expansion of overseas trade, exploration and colonization, the rise of new systems of government (absolute monarchy and constitutional monarchy), the military revolution, the witch hunts of the 1500s and 1600s, and the Enlightenment.
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