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2026-2027 Academic Year

Fall 2026

MEMS 200 Pop Culture in Early Mod Eur
Cross-listed with HIST 213-01. This course will explore the everyday culture of early modern Europe including careful consideration of how people made sense of their world. It will range from examining religious rituals and objects such as relics to natural magic and the popular science that came with the Scientific Revolution. We will also examine the relationship between commoners and the elites while looking at how ideas spread whether by oral culture, images or the new technology of printing.

HIST 213 Pop Culture in Early Mod Eur
Cross-listed with MEMS 200-01. This course will explore the everyday culture of early modern Europe including careful consideration of how people made sense of their world. It will range from examining religious rituals and objects such as relics to natural magic and the popular science that came with the Scientific Revolution. We will also examine the relationship between commoners and the elites while looking at how ideas spread whether by oral culture, images or the new technology of printing.

HIST 358 19th-20th C Europ Diplomacy
Cross-listed with INST 358-01.

INST 358 19th-20th C Europ Diplomacy
Cross-listed with HIST 358-01.

Spring 2027

HIST 106 Early Modern Europe to 1799
Society, culture, and politics from the Renaissance through the French Revolution.

HIST 213 Fashion-Backward
This course will investigate the history of clothing and the development of fashion from the Renaissance into the twentieth century, looking mainly at Europe. Clothing has been intertwined with vital elements of society including definitions of class, gender, race, and national identities. We will explore the role apparel played in courtly consumption, how industrialization transformed how garments were produced, and the rise of fashion houses. The class will also look at representations of clothing and the body - whether in art, advertising or propaganda posters - keeping in mind that the body itself has a history of important changes, for example, in average heights and a dramatic increase in life expectancy and well-being. We will also examine what views of the ideal body were in different historical periods.