HIST 344: Postwar Europe 1945 to the Present (GS)

Course Description

This course will introduce students to the history of Europe since the end of the Second World War. Students will explore Cold War Europe through the study of a variety of topics including Denazification and Reconstruction, Communism and Democracy, the 1968 Uprisings, Immigration, and People’s Activism in the name of peace, feminism, and environmental sustainability. The course will use different kinds of sources (political/legal documents, fiction, memoirs and secondary sources) to help students understand how men and women experienced this era in the east and west, in cities and rural areas. Prerequisites: Junior standing or 100-level History course or instructor consent.