HSTR 362 - Modern Germany

4 Credit(s)

This class examines the history of Central Europe
from the end of the Napoleonic Wars to Adolf
Hitler’s seizure of power in 1933. Special emphasis
will be aff orded to social/cultural history. Such
an approach best allows students to understand
how the rise of the middle class, industrialization,
the beginnings of democracy, and modernism
impacted society politically, economically, and
as a whole. From all of Central Europe’s nation-
states, this course will closely explore the
history of the German people and state during
this time. Trying to understand why and how
Fascism/Nazism was attractive to Germans and
others in Central Europe will be critical. Students
will show understanding of the material through
class discussion, group projects, written assignments
based on critical core readings and library
research, and examinations. Lecture, discussion,
and group projects-research.

fall/even-numbered years