Course Schedule
* Lecture outlines are in Word format

Week One - January 29
Welcome to the Course, a look at Europe in 1492

Lecture: Course expectations and discussion of goals, lecture on Europe during the Middle Ages, Europe's place in global society

Maps for the class are at http://www.ieg-maps.uni-mainz.de/

Outline One

Week Two - February 5
Conquest, Colonization, and Culture

Lecture: Europe in the world, the Reconquista, conquering of the Americas, legacy of the Renaissance.

Readings: Coffin - Chapters 11-12

Outline Two

Week Three - February 12
Reformation and State Building

Lecture: Luther, Calvin, and the division of Western Christianity up to the Thirty Years War

Readings: Coffin - Chapters 13-14

Outline Three

Week Four - February 19
Rational Thought in Europe?

Lecture: Humanism, the Scientific Revolution, the inquisition and witch trials

Readings: Coffin - Chapter 16

Rene Descartes Discourses - Read the six Discourses

Outline Four

Week Five - February 26
The Rise and Fall of Divine Right

Lecture: Louis XIV as the "Sun King," development of Prussia, rise of Russia and the English Revolution

Discussion - Descartes and the Scientific Revolution

Readings: Coffin - Chapter 15

Outline for Week Five

Week Six - March 5
Europe and the Enlightenment

Lecture: The Enlightenment and the secular challenge, the Enlightened Despots, Austrian empire building, decline of the Ottoman Empire

Readings: Coffin - Chapter 17

Outline for Week Six

Immanuel Kant: "What is Enlightenment?" http://www.english.upenn.edu/~mgamer/Etexts/kant.html

Week Seven - March 12
The French Revolution

Lecture on the origins and consequences of the French Revolution, Napoleonic Europe and globalizing the revolution

Discussion of Hunt

Readings: Coffin - Chapter 18

Lynn Hunt The French Revolution and Human Rights

Outline for Week Seven

Week Eight -March 19
The Industrial Revolution and its Discontents

Lecture: Romanticism, reaction and the early industrial revolution

Readings: Coffin - Chapters 19-20

Outline for Week Eight

Karl Marx The Communist Manifesto http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1848/communist-manifesto

Week Nine - March 26

SPRING BREAK - NO CLASS

Week Ten - April 2
New Nations - New Imperialism

Lecture: Germany, Italy, and wars of unification, the "New Imperialism" of the 19th century, consolidation of the French nation

MIDTERM EXAMINATION

Readings: Coffin - Chapters 21-22

Outline for Week Ten

Week Eleven - April 9
Fin de Ciecle Europe on the Eve of War

Lecture: Darwin, Nietzsche, and Freud, the rise of social democracy, collapse of the Ottoman Empire

Discussion: Conrad, Heart of Darkness

Readings: Coffin - Chapter 23

Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

Outline for Week Eleven

Week Twelve - April 16
The First World War

Lecture: Nationalism and imperial ambitions, the Great War, the Versailles Settlement and the shape of post-war Europe

Readings: Coffin - Chapter 24

Week Thirteen - April 23
The Lost Generation

Lecture: The Russian Revolution, America and Europe, inter-war culture, the rise of fascism

Movie: Conspiracy

Readings: Coffin - Chapter 25

Outline for Week Thirteen

Week Fourteen - April 30
The Holocaust and the Crisis of the Enlightenment

Lecture: Hitler's Germany, race and ideology, World War II, and the Holocaust

Discussion: Browning, Ordinary Men

Readings: Coffin - Chapter 26

Christopher Browning, Ordinary Men

Outline for Week Fourteen

Week Fifteen - May 7
Europe from Cold War to Union

Lecture: The division of Germany and Europe, Central European revolutions, nuclear politics and "the German Problem," the European Union, Yugoslavia and genocidal nationalism, the question of Russia

Readings: Coffin - Chapter 27-29