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• HIS 319: Medieval Europe

  3.00 Credits

  West Chester University of Pennsylvania

  
  Western Europe from the fall of Rome to approximately 1300. Economic, social, political, and intellectual developments in the major kingdoms of the West; the history of the Universal Church.
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• HIS 320: Renaissance and Reformation

  3.00 Credits

  West Chester University of Pennsylvania

  
  Political, economic, social, and cultural forces that emerged in Europe from 1300 to 1650. The evolution of modern states and the rise of the middle class.
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• HIS 323: Austrian Civilization

  3.00 Credits

  West Chester University of Pennsylvania

  
  An interdisciplinary study of Austrian civilization, 1848-1938. Emphasis is placed on fin-de-siecle Vienna, not only as its pivotal role in Austrian culture but also as a testing ground for modernism in the West.
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• HIS 324: Race & Nation in the Russian Empire

  3.00 Credits

  West Chester University of Pennsylvania

  
  Focusing on the formation of a vast and diverse Russian empire in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the course explores tensions between an emerging sense of Russian national identity and the racialized practices that sustained imperial rule. It includes substantive study of peasants, workers, women, ethnic, national and religious minorities, and colonized peoples. As students analyze and interpret the multiple ways in which the empire's marginalized peoples experienced and resisted structural inequalities, they develop skills in historical thinking, writing, and speaking.
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• HIS 328: The French Revolution and Napoleon

  3.00 Credits

  West Chester University of Pennsylvania

  
  A study of key social, political, and cultural themes of the French Revolution from its origins during the ancient regime to the fall of Napoleon Bonaparte.
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• HIS 329: Gender and Peace

  3.00 Credits

  West Chester University of Pennsylvania

  
  Examination of the ways in which social and historical constructions of gender intersect with perceptions and experience of war and peace.
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• HIS 331: 20th Century Europe

  3.00 Credits

  West Chester University of Pennsylvania

  
  European fascism and communism; totalitarianism confronts liberalism; interaction between domestic politics and foreign policy; polarization of European politics; disintegration of the political institutions of the traditional state. Prerequisite:    HIS 331 has a recommended prerequisite of AP European History completed in high school or HIS 102 but does not require it.
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• HIS 332: The Holocaust

  3.00 Credits

  West Chester University of Pennsylvania

  
  Focuses on ethnic, nationalistic, economic, and religious causes of the Holocaust, including 20th-century Nazism, racism, and anti-semitism; study of the Nuremberg trials.
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• HIS 343: Colonial America

  3.00 Credits

  West Chester University of Pennsylvania

  
  Examination of the colonial experience of Europeans in the parts of America that became the United States, from Columbus's voyage in 1492 to the eve of the Revolutionary War.
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• HIS 344: History of Pennsylvania

  3.00 Credits

  West Chester University of Pennsylvania

  
  The founding and development of Pennsylvania from its Colonial beginnings to the present with emphasis on the relation of the past to the present.
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