HIS 100-03 - Introduction to Historical Inquiry: After the Great War

4 credits (Fall)

This course provides an introduction to issues of historical causation, argumentation, and evidence, by exploring the impact of the First World War (1914-18) on the political, social, and cultural institutions of Europe and the wider world, and using the current centenary of the war to consider its legacy. After introductory units on historical methods and the experience of the war, we will investigate how European citizens and subjects attempted to reconstruct, reinvent, and make sense of “a world undone.” Topics will include cultural memory and modernism; gender and the “New Woman”; the rise of Nazism; internationalism and the League of Nations; colonialism and nationalism.

Prerequisite: None.
Instructor: Prevost