Course Description
French social and political history in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Processes of urbanization and industrialization in the nineteenth century and French political and cultural development in the twentieth century.
Athena Title
Modern France Since 1799
Equivalent Courses
Not open to students with credit in HIST 3382H
Pre or Corequisite
Any HIST or HONS or FREN course or POLS 1101 or POLS 1101E or POLS 1101S or POLS 1105H
Semester Course Offered
Offered every year.
Grading System
A - F (Traditional)
Student Learning Outcomes
- By the end of this course, students will be able to arrive at conclusions about the history of modern France by gathering and weighing evidence, logical argument, and listening to counter argument.
- By the end of this course, students will be able to write stylistically appropriate papers and essays. Students will be able to analyze ideas and evidence, organize their thoughts, and revise and edit their finished essays.
- By the end of this course, students will be able to identify how the history of modern France has shaped diverse social and cultural identities, attitudes, and ideologies, encouraging them to understand diverse worldviews and experiences.
- By the end of this course, students will be able to apply appropriate methodological approaches to their analysis of primary sources and to organize their evidence to show historical continuities and discontinuities.
Topical Outline
- The End of the Old Regime
- The Revolution of 1789
- Napoleonic Europe and the Restoration
- The July Monarchy and Economic Development
- The Conquest of Algeria
- The Revolution of 1848
- The Second Empire and the Commune of 1871
- The Third Republic at Home
- The Imperial Republic in Asia and Africa
- Fin-de-Siècle Culture
- World War I
- The Age of Extremes, 1919-1939
- Vichy France
- Decolonization
- Modernity and its Discontents, 1945-1968
- France, Europe and the World, 1968-present
