HIST 2220 - Europe in the Twentieth Century

• Students will be able to identify and analyze major events in modern European history.
• Students will be able to employ principles, terminology, and methods from political and social history in order to understand and analyze major developments in European history in the twentieth century.
• Students will be able to analyze, interpret, and evaluate primary works produced by major thinkers and political leaders in twentieth-century Europe, in order to compare and evaluate how ideas influence political changes and social development.
• Students will be able to communicate concepts and evidence related to the historical study of change and continuity over time, as well as compare developments in different parts of Europe at identical periods.
• Students will be able to explain relationships among historical contexts and major ideologies of twentieth-century Europe (democracy, communism, fascism) as both systems of thought and as political regimes with practical consequences in the world.