HISTORY OF EUROPE SINCE 1945

Prerequisites & course information

Requisites: Sophomore standing Course Designation: Core GenEd - Social & Behavioral Science Breadth - Social Science Level - Intermediate L&S Credit - L&S Liberal Arts and Science Grad 50% - Counts toward 50% graduate coursework requirement Repeatable for Credit: No Last Taught: Fall 2024 Learning Outcomes: 1. Discuss Europe's social, political, and cultural history. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 2. Situate Europe’s changing place in the world (loss of great power status; loss of Empire; development of the European Union). Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 3. Describe how the past informs Europe's present, and how contemporary developments shape our understanding of the continent's past. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 4. Use different kinds of sources (novels, primary sources, secondary sources) to make persuasive arguments about the past. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 5. Interpret and evaluate key scholarly debates in the historiography of postwar Europe. Audience: Graduate Learning Outcomes: 1. Discuss Europe's social, political, and cultural history. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 2. Situate Europe’s changing place in the world (loss of great power status; loss of Empire; development of the European Union). Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 3. Describe how the past informs Europe's present, and how contemporary developments shape our understanding of the continent's past. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 4. Use different kinds of sources (novels, primary sources, secondary sources) to make persuasive arguments about the past. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 5. Interpret and evaluate key scholarly debates in the historiography of postwar Europe. Audience: Graduate