HIST 229 - Topics in European History

FDR: HU, GE4b
Credits: 3
A course offered from time to time depending on student interest and staff availability, on a selected topic or problem in European history. May be repeated for degree credit with permission and if the topics are different.

Topic for Fall, 2009:

HIST 229: Women & Gender: Early Modern Europe. An investigation of the history of Europe from the 16th century to the French Revolution through the lens of gender – examining how historical events and movements, such as the Reformation, the Enlightenment and the French Revolution changed gender roles and women’s lives, and conversely how and why gender roles remained relatively constant in the early modern era. The four main units of this course are: women’s roles within the family and the European demographic system; the role of women in religious orders and movements, as well as Catholic and Protestant ideas about gender; how society treated women and men deemed “deviant”; how equality between the sexes became both a possibility and a problem during the Enlightenment and Revolution. (HU, GE4b) Horowitz