May 07, 2025  
2024-2025 Graduate Catalog 
    
2024-2025 Graduate Catalog

HIST 661 - Europe in the 18th Century


Credits 3

Advanced study of eighteenth-century European cultural, intellectual, social and political history. Includes Enlightenment ideas (“progress, the “pursuit of happiness” and the quest for “virtue”); constitutional and absolutist government; commercial capitalism; changes to the traditional social order; nationalism and patriotism; religious toleration; and the advent of print culture. Crosslisted with HIST 461. Credit at the 600-level requires additional work.



Prerequisites
Graduate standing.