300-400 level courses are on special topics and are more advanced. They often presuppose some basic knowledge in the field and should be more difficult courses than courses at the 1-199 levels. The department is trying to insure that some 400 level courses, although substantially more difficult, are also small in size; they thus may be suitable for graduate students.
HIST 202 Politics and Intellectuals in Modern Europe: A Research Seminar
Taught as schedule allows (consult the Course Directory)
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This research seminar will focus on intellectuals and politics in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Europe. We will begin with several weeks of common readings focused on case studies of intellectuals claiming and/or playing a role in politics and the public sphere. Possible topics might include: intellectuals and socialism, the Dreyfus Affair, Martin Heidegger and Nazism, Jean-Paul Sartre and the engaged intellectual, and feminism. Students will be free to select a research topic, and the rest of the semester will be devoted to independent research and writing of an original work of historical scholarship. Throughout the semester, meetings will be scheduled to allow students opportunities to present their research at various stages of development. The goal of the seminar is to give students an intensive research experience, an experience that lies at the heart of the historian's craft. Students should have some background in modern European history.
