HIS 100-01 - Introduction to Historical Inquiry: After the Great War

4 credits (Fall Term 1)

After the Great War. 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. After introductory units on historical methods and the experience of the war, we will investigate how citizens and subjects attempted to reconstruct, reinvent, and reinterpret “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; and the global flu pandemic.

Prerequisite: None.
Instructor: Prevost