Overview
Description
Detailed study of an age of conflict and its interludes of peace.
Units
Lecture3
Catalog Details
Offering
Offered: Every Fall
Terms
fall
Attributes
Standard
Learning Outcomes
- analyze, evaluate, and interpret primary sources with attention to content, historical and cultural context, genre, and language.
- analyze and clearly explain the argument, main points, and use of evidence in secondary sources through class discussion and written assignments.
- analyze and synthesize arguments from primary and secondary sources to craft an original interpretation related to twentieth-century European history.
- identify the key events, actors, and places of twentieth-century European history and demonstrate an awareness how these change over time.
- explain how the twentieth-century experiences of war, revolution, decolonization, and genocide shaped the lives of Europeans and others across the globe.
- critically examine twentieth-century European films considering both their original historical context and the development of European cinema.
- identify the main themes of the field in individual and group discussions.
- analyze examples of major secondary works in the field.
- write a lengthy historiographical analysis or research paper in which historiography figures prominently.