Europe and Modern World
This is an introductory course in European history concentrating on the 19th- and 20th-century experiences of European societies through examination of major social, economic, political and intellectual development. One emphasis is on the changes that caused the transformation of Europe from a pre-industrial to a modern industrial society. A second emphasis focuses on a specific place and time period in order to understand how this process of transformation affected different European nations at different points in their history.