For a fuller discussion of the writing assignment for each week than the syllabus provides, click on the week number below.
Week 1 -- The French Revolution
Week 2 -- The Industrial Revolution
Week 3 -- Popular Rule Emerges in Britain and France
Week 4 -- Is Germany a Special Case?
Week 5 -- Europe Goes to War
Week 6 -- Revolution and Communism in Russia
Week 7 -- Democracy in Hard Times: Britain, France and Germany
Week 8 -- Fascism in Germany
Week 9 -- Europe after the Second Great Twentieth-Century War