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Lecture Hall 3
Section Information for Spring 2016
This course will survey the history of the Western world—in other words, Europe, but from a global perspective—from its origins in the ancient world of the Mediterranean to the present day. The course will stress two principal themes: (1) how the West has dramatically evolved over several millennia from a closed society based on hierarchy, patriarchy, and insistence on the uniformity of beliefs and values, into a more open society based, at least in theory, on legal and social equality, religious toleration, and the acceptance of a pluralist society; and (2) understanding how the history of this vast period has been constructed by historians, and especially how some of these constructions have sometimes been used either to legitimate and justify the historical changes outlined above, or to try to resist them. Students will read a variety of primary sources as well as a textbook, and they will be evaluated with a series of essay exams, quizzes, and writing assignments outside class.
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