HIST401
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HIST401 - Revolutions of the Mind: Nineteenth-Century Ideas and Their Contemporary Legacy
Course ID
038456
Course Description
This course will examine the writings of the major public intellectuals/ critical thinkers of the nineteenth century and their continued influence in our contemporary world. We will read the work of intellectual figures as diverse as Marx, Mill, Spencer, Thoreau, Darwin, Renan, Zola, Freud, Hirschfeld, and others considering the influence of their ideas in their own time and their implications for our own epistemologies and cosmologies in the present.
Min Units
3
Max Units
3
Repeatable for Credit
No
Grading Basis
GRD - Regular Grades A, B, C, D, E
Career
Undergraduate
Course Requisites
HIST 301.
May be convened with
HIST501
Component
Lecture
Optional Component
No