59 courses with the subject HIEU, each shown exactly as we captured it from the college's catalog, with every element we hold. Where the wording looks broken, that is our reading of the catalog, not the college's text.
HIEU 1501Introductory Seminar in European History3
Effective Date 05/01/2026 Intended for first- or second-year students. Seminars involve reading, discussing, and writing about different historical topics and periods, and emphasize the enhancement of critical and communication skills. Several seminars are offered each term. Not more than two Introductory Seminars may be counted toward the major in history. Requisites 1st or 2nd year students
Effective Date 01/01/2013 Surveys the fundamental institutions and ideas that have shaped the Western world. Topics include great religious and philosophical traditions, political ideas, literary forms, artistic achievements and institutional structures from the world of the ancient Hebrews to the eve of the modern world (ca. 3000 b.c. to 1600 a.d.).
Effective Date 08/01/2023 This course examines the history of nationalism in modern Europe, from the 1700s to the present day. We will consider the emergence and consolidation of European nation-states in the eighteenth century; nationalist movements and the breakup of empires in the nineteenth; ethnic cleansing and nationalist violence in twentieth-century Europe; as well as the rise of the European Union and its challenges today.
Effective Date 08/01/2012 Studies the political, military, and social history of Ancient Greece from the Homeric age to the death of Alexander the Great, emphasizing the development and interactions of Sparta and Athens.
Effective Date 01/01/2010 Surveys the political, social, and institutional growth of the Roman Republic, focusing on its downfall and replacement by an imperial form of government, the subsequent history of that government, and the social and economic life during the Roman Empire, up to its own decline and fall.
Effective Date 08/01/2012 Studies ways of life and thought in the formation of Western Europe from the 4th century a.d. to the 15th. Includes a survey of the development of society and culture in town and countryside, the growth of economic, political, and religious institutions, and the impact of Muslim and Byzantine civilizations.
Effective Date 01/01/2026 European history since the French Revolution, with an emphasis on social, cultural, and political change in global perspective.
Effective Date 03/01/2009 Survey of Jewish history from the seventeenth century to the present, primarily in Europe, but with further treatment of Jewish life in the U.S. and Israel. Major topics include Jewish historical consciousness; patterns of emancipation; religious adjustment; the role of women; anti-Semitism; Zionism; the American Jewish experience; the Holocaust; the establishment of Israel; and Jewish life in Europe after the Holocaust.
Effective Date 08/01/2020 Surveys political, social, and cultural history as Britain developed from a European backwater into a global power. Focuses on four major transformations: the Reformation and changing religious life under the Tudor monarchs; new political ideas during the Civil Wars of the 1640s and revolution in the 1680s; the unification of England, Scotland, and Ireland; and the beginnings of a global empire in North America and South Asia.
HIEU 2112Disunited Kingdom: Britain from 1688 to the Present3
Effective Date 01/01/2026 This course surveys the history of modern Britain from the Glorious Revolution of 1688 to the resurgent nationalisms of the present. Themes include the state-building, overseas expansion, and widening inequality of the Georgian years; the industrialization, urbanization, and increasingly assertive imperialism of the Victorian era; and the problems of war, decolonization, and decline in the twentieth century.
HIEU 2121France in the Age of Revolutions, 1789-18713
Effective Date 02/10/2021 Introduction to French social, political, and cultural history from 1789 to 1871. Examines political struggles from the French Revolution to the Paris Commune, and considers how industrialization, urbanization, mass culture and imperial expansion reshaped relationships between men and women, rich and poor, city and country, artists and audiences, and metropole and colony. Traces changing ideas of nation, citizenship, and democracy. Requisites Students can’t enroll if previously taken HIEU 2559 topic #11 France in Age Revol 1789-1871
HIEU 2122France in the Twentieth Century, 1871-present3
Effective Date 02/10/2021 Introduction to major developments in French society, culture, and politics since 1871: struggles to establish a secular Republic; nationalism and imperialism; antisemitism and Islamophobia; changes in women’s roles and gender ideals; the traumas of world war and fascism; postwar consumer culture and economic modernization; European integration, Cold War, and decolonization; post-colonial immigration and multiculturalism. Requisites Students can’t enroll if previously taken HIEU 2559 topic #12 France in 20th Century
Effective Date 03/01/2009 Explores the collapse of the Russian Empire and the rise of the Communist state. Emphasizes the social revolution, Stalinism and subsequent ‘de-Stalinization,’ national minorities, and the collapse of the Soviet regime.
Effective Date 11/30/2012 This class surveys the major developments in Europe from 1945 up to the present day. Topics that we examine include the legacy of World War II, the division of Europe during the cold war, the economic and political progress of the continent, the crises triggered by decolonization and imigration, and the continuing struggles of Europeans to build a united, peaceful and stable union.
HIEU 2350Medieval and Renaissance Europe, 1100-15003
Effective Date 08/01/2026 Famously dubbed ‘the Dark Ages’ by Petrarch, the European Middle Ages live on in popular imagination as an age of faith, a time of cultured knights and ladies, and a period of relentless violence. The period from 1100-1500 in what came to be called Europe experienced significant advancements in the flowering of religious piety, economic prosperity, ethical philosophy, the centralization of state power, law, urban life, science and medicine, literature, art, and soaring feats of architecture. Requisites Students cannot enroll if they have previously completed HIEU 2559 Topic #14 Medieval Europe
Effective Date 01/01/2024 Surveys the intellectual, religious, and social history of Europe c.1500-1800 through the lens of changing beliefs about the supernatural. Selected topics include the rise and decline of witch-hunting, changing understandings of the universe, the impact of religious reform on traditional belief, and the “disenchantment” of European society as beliefs in the supernatural declined in the 18th century.
Effective Date 08/01/2013 Surveys the history and culture of the last century of the Roman Republic (133-30 b.c.), emphasizing the political and social reasons for the destruction of the Republican form of government and its replacement by a monarchy.
Effective Date 03/01/2009 Study of the interrationships between law, politics and society in ancient Greece (chiefly Athenian) culture, the Hellenistic kingdoms and Rome (from the XII Tables to the Justinianic Code). Focuses particularly on the development of the idea of law; on the construction of law’s authority and legitimacy; on the use of law as one method of social control; and on the development, at Rome, of juristic independence and legal codification.
Effective Date 03/01/2009 Discusses intellectual and cultural history, political and social theories, and religious movements from the 11th to the 16th centuries.
HIEU 3141Age of Conquests: Britain from the Romans to the Normans (43-1066)3
Effective Date 01/01/2021 Surveys the history of Britain from the establishment of Roman rule to the Norman Conquest of 1066. Particular focus falls upon the social, political and cultural history of early England and its neighbors in Wales and Scotland, the Scandinavian impact of the 8th through 11th centuries, and Britain’s links with the wider late antique and early medieval worlds.
HIEU 3152Colonizing the World: The British Empire3
Effective Date 08/01/2025 This course will focus primarily on the ‘second’ empire in Asia and Africa, although the first empire in the Americas will be our first topic. Topics covered include the slave plantations in the West Indies, the American Revolution, the rise of the British East India Company and its control of India, and the Scramble for Africa. Special emphasis will be placed on the environmental history of our points of debarkation.
Effective Date 08/01/2019 Detailed study of the development of Christianity in the Middle Ages and of how it reflected upon itself in terms of theology, piety, and politics. Cross-listed as RELC 3181.
Effective Date 03/23/2010 This course investigates Italy’s history and culture at the end of the Middle Ages through the life and writings of Dante Alighieri, Italy’s greatest author of the medieval and early modern period. Through lectures and discussions on Dante’s most important writings, students will be introduced to the culture of Italian city-states as well as to the most important literary and philosophical ideas of the late Middle Ages.
HIEU 3312Europe at War, 1939-45: Occupation, Genocide, Resistance3
Effective Date 10/08/2024 This course examines the range of human experience in Europe during the Second World War. Why did Nazi Germany invade and attempt to colonize large parts of Europe? What were the methods of Nazi rule? How did European peoples respond to the Nazi project, whether through forms of resistance or collaboration? Who were the principal victims of the war–and why is this question so difficult to address even today?
Effective Date 08/01/2015 Studies the history of modern science in its formative period against the backdrop of classical Greek science and in the context of evolving scientific institutions and changing views of religion, politics, magic, alchemy, and ancient authorities.
Effective Date 08/01/2020 This class studies key aspects of German history, including the origins of Nazi ideology, colonialism, war and genocide; the Cold War and its legacies; European Integration and it’s challenges; the resurgence of far-right and new-fascist politics and movements, as well as Germany’s ongoing efforts to come to terms with the Holocaust.
Effective Date 12/06/2017 This course will examine the history of antisemitism, prejudice against Jews. Hatred of Jews originates from a diverse combination of ideologies, historical moments and, likewise, takes a variety of forms in different times and places. This course will introduce the concept from its earliest times and follow both the theoretical/philosophical thought and the displays of antisemitism through history with a focus on Europe.
Effective Date 08/01/2023 Detailed survey of the historical origins, political structures, cultural dynamics, and every-day practices of the Nazi Third Reich. Cross-listed in the German department, and taught in English.
HIEU 3452Jewish Culture and History in Eastern Europe3
Effective Date 03/01/2009 This course is a comprehensive examination of the culture and history of East European Jewry from 1750 to 1935. Course cross-listed with YITR 3452.
Effective Date 03/01/2009 The development of legal institutions, legal ideas, and legal principles from the medieval period to the 18th century. Emphasizes the impact of transformations in politics, society, and thought on the major categories of English law: property, torts and contracts, corporations, family law, constitutional and administrative law, and crime.
Effective Date 03/01/2009 Surveys the rise, rule, and demise of the British Empire from the Seven Years War (1756-63) to decolonization after World War II. Topics include the expansion and consolidation of empire, opposition, and resistance, and the cultural consequences of imperialism.
Effective Date 02/21/2025 Required for history majors, to be completed before enrollment in the Major Seminar. Introduces a variety of approaches to the study of history, methods for finding and analyzing primary and secondary sources, and the construction of historical arguments. Workshops are offered on a variety of topics each term.
Effective Date 11/30/2012 This lecture course will explore the 19th- and 20th-century history of Central Europe as both region and idea, tracing two stories in parallel: 1) the entangled history of Austrians, Czechs, Germans, Hungarians, Jews, Lithuanians, Poles, Slovaks, and Ukrainians; and 2) attempts by writers and scholars belonging to these groups (from Sigmund Freud to Milan Kundera) to ‘imagine’ their own versions of a Europe caught between ‘East’ and ‘West.’
Effective Date 01/01/2027 Explores the relationship between facts and fiction in the representation of the past. Course materials range from archival sources and scholarly articles to novels, films, paintings, sculptures, poems and other creative articulations of the historical imagination. The role of the new media and media analysis in the representation of history will also be examined. Topics vary annually.
Effective Date 02/13/2018 This course examines the presentation of the Holocaust on film from the immediate postwar period to present. It does so alongside the actual history of the Holocaust. Course involves viewing multiple films inside and outside of class. Course assignments include multiple writings and analyses on various topics of filmmaking and the Holocaust.
HIEU 3670The Fall of Communism: How the Soviet Empire Lost the Cold War3
Effective Date 02/17/2017 This course will examine the roots, causes, and aftermath of communism’s collapse in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. We will consider economic stagnation and abortive attempts at reform; political crises and the rise of dissident movements; cultural exchange and the influence of mass media; and the role of social and nationalist activism.
Effective Date 01/01/2023 This course aims to clarify basic facts and explore competing explanations for the origins and unfolding of the Holocaust (the encounter between the Third Reich and Europe’s Jews between 1933 and 1945) that resulted in the deaths of almost six million Jews.
HIEU 3752Evolution of the International System, 1815-19503
Effective Date 03/01/2009 Analyzes the evolution of great-power politics from the post-Napoleonic Congress of Vienna and the systems of Metternich and Bismarck to the great convulsions of the twentieth century and the Russo-American Cold War after World War II.
Effective Date 03/01/2009 Studies selected themes in intellectual history since the mid-19th century, focusing on Darwin, Nietzsche, Freud, Heidegger, and other thinkers, emphasizing the intellectual contexts out of which they came and to which they contributed.
Effective Date 08/01/2023 Introduces the social theory of Karl Marx. What Marx said, why he said it, what he meant in saying it, and the significance thereof. Situates Marx’s writing in the context of 19th-century intellectual history. Focuses on the coherence and validity of the theory and its subsequent history.
Effective Date 10/20/2023 The major seminar is a small class (not more than 15 students) intended primarily but not exclusively for history majors who have completed two or more courses relevant to the topic of the seminar. The work of the seminar results primarily in the preparation of a substantial (ca. 25 pp. in standard format) research paper. Some restrictions and prerequisites apply to enrollment. See a history advisor or the director of undergraduate studies.
Effective Date 02/13/2024 The major colloquium is a small class (not more than 15 students) intended primarily but not exclusively for history majors who have completed two or more courses relevant to the topic of the colloquium. Colloquia are most frequently offered in areas of history where access to source materials or linguistic demands make seminars especially difficult. Students in colloquia prepare about 25 pages of written work. Some restrictions and prerequisites apply to enrollment. See a history advisor or the director of undergraduate studies.
Effective Date 01/01/2013 Topics courses are small, discussion-oriented classes available to any student with sufficient background and interest in a particular field of historical study. Offered irregularly, they are open to majors or non-majors on an equal basis.
Effective Date 01/01/2013 TTopics courses are small, discussion-oriented classes available to any student with sufficient background and interest in a particular field of historical study. Offered irregularly, they are open to majors or non-majors on an equal basis.
Effective Date 03/01/2009 In exceptional circumstances and with the permission of a faculty member any student may undertake a rigorous program of independent study designed to explore a subject not currently being taught or to expand upon regular offerings. Independent Study projects may not be used to replace regularly scheduled classes. Open to majors or non-majors.
