The Making of Modern Europe: 1789-Present

3-0-10 units. HASS-H · Undergraduate

Provides an introduction to European history from 1789 to the present. Surveys the Enlightenment and the French Revolution, industrialization and the rise of labor politics, imperialism and nationalism, the First and Second World Wars, the Holocaust, Cold War divisions and the dissolution of the Eastern bloc, decolonization, and the ongoing search for a new Europe after 1989. Taught in English with a project that requires research in French.