Discipline ID
06a6acf3-73c3-4ed3-9f03-6e1dafb7e2cb
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PARIS REFLECTIONS
Country
France
Host Institution
UC Center, Paris
Program(s)
French in Paris,Food, History, and Culture in Paris
UCEAP Course Level
Upper Division
UCEAP Subject Area(s)
History
Film & Media Studies
Comparative Literature
UCEAP Course Number
170
UCEAP Course Suffix
UCEAP Official Title
PARIS REFLECTIONS
UCEAP Transcript Title
PARIS REFLECTIONS
UCEAP Quarter Units
4.50
UCEAP Semester Units
3.00
Course Description
Paris inscribes on every street corner a page of France's history. Its cobblestone streets record centuries of struggle, offering a narrative of this history. Writers, chroniclers, and later filmmakers have picked up these narratives and turned them into eternal works of art. The historian of today, retracing this past, has turned them into sites of memory. This course uses literary texts and films as well as historical texts to search for and reconstruct these sites of memory. From the French Revolution to the student revolt of May 1968, this course follows Parisians, exploring the ways in which cinematic representations and literary texts shape collective memory and are a particular historical/political representation of France. The course takes an interdisciplinary approach and compares and contrasts works of fiction with works of non-fiction, the written word with the visual representation, and includes site visits. Classes are broken up into specific themes each pertaining to a major event in the life of France.
Language(s) of Instruction
English
Host Institution Course Number
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PARIS REFLECTIONS
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Host Institution Campus
UC Center, Paris
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Course Last Reviewed
2025-2026
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NATURE AND SOCIETY IN VICTORIAN BRITAIN
Country
United Kingdom - Scotland
Host Institution
University of St Andrews
Program(s)
University of St Andrews
UCEAP Course Level
Upper Division
UCEAP Subject Area(s)
History
UCEAP Course Number
105
UCEAP Course Suffix
UCEAP Official Title
NATURE AND SOCIETY IN VICTORIAN BRITAIN
UCEAP Transcript Title
VICTORIAN BRITAIN
UCEAP Quarter Units
12.00
UCEAP Semester Units
8.00
Course Description
For Romantic poets and natural scientists, Christian missionaries and package tourists, the natural world was a source of inspiration and fascination. This course examines the ways the Victorians encountered and interpreted the natural world. Key themes include natural theology, Romanticism, imperial exploration and discovery, the growth of tourism, and the emergence of science as an expert profession. Students use contemporary documents to examine the ways in which different social and professional groups constructed and represented the natural world according to their own interests.
Language(s) of Instruction
English
Host Institution Course Number
MO3334
Host Institution Course Title
NATURE AND SOCIETY IN VICTORIAN BRITAIN
Host Institution Course Details
Host Institution Campus
St Andrews
Host Institution Faculty
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Host Institution Department
History
Course Last Reviewed
2018-2019
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RACISM IN THE WESTERN WORLD: A CULTURAL HISTORY
Country
Netherlands
Host Institution
Utrecht University
Program(s)
Utrecht University
UCEAP Course Level
Upper Division
UCEAP Subject Area(s)
International Studies
History
UCEAP Course Number
109
UCEAP Course Suffix
UCEAP Official Title
RACISM IN THE WESTERN WORLD: A CULTURAL HISTORY
UCEAP Transcript Title
RACISM WESTRN WRLD
UCEAP Quarter Units
6.00
UCEAP Semester Units
4.00
Course Description
This course offers an intensive introduction to the historical development of ideas about ethnicity, race, and racism in the Western world. Students gain insight into the cultural processes that feed into constructions of race and ethnicity and learn to turn a critical lens on scientific concepts such as racism, racial boundaries, multiculturalism, discrimination, othering, and whiteness. Course participants also are instructed in the techniques of the historian's craft: finding and selecting literature, assessing texts, critically analyzing sources and working with historical concepts such as ethnicity, racism, and discrimination. Though racism is mainly associated with the colonial slave experience and genocide in the Second World War, it has a much longer history that also ripples through to our own world today. This course studies the history of racism in the West from the Enlightenment to the present day. The main focus is on the way in which ideas about race and ethnicity have evolved as categories of differentiation, hierarchy, and exclusion. Students research the complex interactions between these cultural constructs and the historical dimensions of nationalism, colonialism, imperialism and globalization in Western history. The development of racism in Europe is considered from an international and comparative perspective, in part through the study of colonial and transatlantic experiences of slavery and migration, as well as by researching the worldwide spread of ideals of equality, human rights, and civil rights. In addition, the course looks at how scientific and pseudo-scientific constructs of racism, social Darwinism, and eugenics were modeled from the nineteenth century onwards to legitimize differentiation and selection on the basis of racial characteristics. Finally, this course investigates how knowledge of this controversial past can offer a framework for understanding current discussions about race and ethnicity. Note: The lectures of this course are in English. If there is only one seminar group, discussions are also entirely in English.
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Host Institution Course Number
GE2V16006
Host Institution Course Title
RACISM IN THE WESTERN WORLD: A CULTURAL HISTORY
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Humanities
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Host Institution Department
History and Art History
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HISTORY OF EUROPEAN DIPLOMACY
Country
Germany
Host Institution
Free University of Berlin
Program(s)
European Studies
UCEAP Course Level
Upper Division
UCEAP Subject Area(s)
International Studies
History
UCEAP Course Number
107
UCEAP Course Suffix
UCEAP Official Title
HISTORY OF EUROPEAN DIPLOMACY
UCEAP Transcript Title
HIST EU DIPLOMACY
UCEAP Quarter Units
4.50
UCEAP Semester Units
3.00
Course Description
This course surveys the history of European diplomacy since 1814. Topics covered: Napoleon's conquests and the French Empire; the defeat of Napoleon and the gathering in Vienna in 1814-15 to restore the old order; a Concert of Europe based on a set of informal norms to govern relations between states; liberal national movements and various crises caused by the instability of the Ottoman Empire; the creation of a new form of European nation-states (i.e. Italy and Germany). The course discusses how the character of European diplomacy was profoundly altered, in particular by Bismarck's particular brand of foreign policy and a new wave of imperialism, but also by the idea of internationalism. The course then moves on to 1914, where a minor crisis in Sarajevo turned into a European and, eventually, global war. This part of the course discusses the efforts at the Paris Peace Conference to institutionalize a system of collective security. However, with the advent of new aggressive and belligerent regimes, this endeavor failed miserably. After the Second World War, Great Britain and France both lost their Empire, though each of them in their own way. At the same time, Western Europe tried to further integrate on a regional level and, at first, focused on economic integration. Only later on did European states increase integration on a political and diplomatic level as well. The violent break-up of Yugoslavia with its ensuing ethnic tensions and the embarrassing display of European disunity undoubtedly hastened this process.
Language(s) of Instruction
English
Host Institution Course Number
FU-BEST 23
Host Institution Course Title
HISTORY OF EUROPEAN DIPLOMACY
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ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL HISTORY OF DEVELOPING NATIONS
Country
Switzerland
Host Institution
University of Geneva
Program(s)
Global Studies, Geneva
UCEAP Course Level
Upper Division
UCEAP Subject Area(s)
History
UCEAP Course Number
104
UCEAP Course Suffix
UCEAP Official Title
ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL HISTORY OF DEVELOPING NATIONS
UCEAP Transcript Title
ECON&SOC DEV NATNS
UCEAP Quarter Units
6.00
UCEAP Semester Units
4.00
Course Description
The history of developing countries is strongly marked by European colonization, the scale of which has been unprecedented. Today, about 70% of the world's population has a colonial past, either as descendants of colonizers or as descendants of colonized people. The European colonial fact, which is one of the sources of inequality in today's world, has seen effects unfold in two very different historical contexts around the world: the first phase of European expansion overseas in the sixteenth-eighteenth century and that of colonialism and imperialism in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. To try to measure a phenomenon of such magnitude and ambiguous effects, and to highlight its long-term effects, the course looks at the variety of forms taken by European colonization during these two periods and the factors that can be put forward to illuminate it.
Language(s) of Instruction
French
Host Institution Course Number
T208014 CR
Host Institution Course Title
HISTOIRE ÉCONOMIQUE ET SOCIALE DES PAYS EN VOIE DE DÉVELOPPEMENT
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University of Geneva
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Faculté des Sciences de la Société
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THE HISTORY OF AVIATION: AIRBUS & BOEING
Country
Spain
Host Institution
Carlos III University of Madrid
Program(s)
Carlos III University of Madrid
UCEAP Course Level
Upper Division
UCEAP Subject Area(s)
History
UCEAP Course Number
111
UCEAP Course Suffix
UCEAP Official Title
THE HISTORY OF AVIATION: AIRBUS & BOEING
UCEAP Transcript Title
HIST/AIRBUS&BOEING
UCEAP Quarter Units
2.50
UCEAP Semester Units
1.70
Course Description
This course discusses the history of commercial aviation and the role of two major aircraft manufacturers-- Airbus and Boeing. It discusses the competition between the two companies and the impact of this competition on the aviation industry. Topics include: comparison of the two major aircraft manufacturers; the evolution of airlines-- alliances; the future of aviation-- new competitors.
Language(s) of Instruction
Spanish
Host Institution Course Number
12764
Host Institution Course Title
HISTORIA DE LA AVIACIÓN: AIRBUS/BOEING
Host Institution Course Details
Host Institution Campus
Leganés
Host Institution Faculty
Escuela Politécnica Superior
Host Institution Degree
Host Institution Department
Derecho Social e Internacional Privado
Course Last Reviewed
2023-2024
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EUROPEAN HISTORY 1789-1914
Country
Spain
Host Institution
Complutense University of Madrid
Program(s)
Complutense University of Madrid
UCEAP Course Level
Upper Division
UCEAP Subject Area(s)
History
UCEAP Course Number
152
UCEAP Course Suffix
UCEAP Official Title
EUROPEAN HISTORY 1789-1914
UCEAP Transcript Title
EURO HIST 1789-1914
UCEAP Quarter Units
5.00
UCEAP Semester Units
3.30
Course Description
This course examines the period of European History extending between 1789 and 1914. Topics include: the end of absolutist monarchies based on divine right; the implantation of representative political systems based on a strong national feeling; and the civilizational crisis that provoked a general European war involving the five great powers and marked a before and after in the contemporary history of Europe.
Language(s) of Instruction
Spanish
Host Institution Course Number
801794
Host Institution Course Title
HISTORIA CONTEMPORÁNEA DE EUROPA I. SIGLO XIX
Host Institution Course Details
Host Institution Campus
Facultad de Geografía e Historia
Host Institution Faculty
Host Institution Degree
Host Institution Department
Grado en Historia
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POWER AND POWERLESSNESS: A HISTORY OF CZECHOSLOVAKIA, 1918-1993
Country
Czech Republic
Host Institution
Charles University
Program(s)
Central European Studies
UCEAP Course Level
Upper Division
UCEAP Subject Area(s)
History
UCEAP Course Number
155
UCEAP Course Suffix
UCEAP Official Title
POWER AND POWERLESSNESS: A HISTORY OF CZECHOSLOVAKIA, 1918-1993
UCEAP Transcript Title
CZECHOSLOVAKIA HIST
UCEAP Quarter Units
4.50
UCEAP Semester Units
3.00
Course Description
This course approaches Czechoslovak history both chronologically and thematically, tracing some of the most important current directions in modern European historiography. The course combines social, cultural, and political approaches to examine the limits of understanding history as a purely top-down process. Students review significant recent scholarship from the Czech and Slovak Republics and elsewhere, including literature, film, photography, and official documents. The course discusses topics including the chronological approach to studying history, using conventional periodization to analyze Czechoslovak history, whether the European continent was characterized by a Cold War divide and how Czechoslovakia might shed light on this, debates surrounding the use of a totalitarian paradigm, and the actors and drivers of historical change.
Language(s) of Instruction
English
Host Institution Course Number
CUFA HIST 335
Host Institution Course Title
POWER AND POWERLESSNESS: A HISTORY OF CZECHOSLOVAKIA, 1918-1993
Host Institution Course Details
Host Institution Campus
Faculty of Arts
Host Institution Faculty
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Host Institution Department
East and Central European Studies
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HISTORY THAT COUNTS: METHODS AND CASES IN QUANTITATIVE HISTORY
Country
United Kingdom - England
Host Institution
University College London
Program(s)
University College London
UCEAP Course Level
Upper Division
UCEAP Subject Area(s)
History
UCEAP Course Number
138
UCEAP Course Suffix
UCEAP Official Title
HISTORY THAT COUNTS: METHODS AND CASES IN QUANTITATIVE HISTORY
UCEAP Transcript Title
HISTORY THAT COUNTS
UCEAP Quarter Units
6.00
UCEAP Semester Units
4.00
Course Description
This course explores quantitative methods for historians with applications in different historical fields. The first half of the course covers methods of constructing and displaying historical data, providing and interpreting summary statistics, and exploring the relationship between different historical variables. The second half focuses on applications of some of these methods in economic history, financial history, spatial history, and international history. Each case is discussed with reference to quantification and data analysis methodology of a published work drawn from early modern and modern periods. Students are expected to complete tasks in Microsoft Excel.
Language(s) of Instruction
English
Host Institution Course Number
HIST0301
Host Institution Course Title
HISTORY THAT COUNTS: METHODS AND CASES IN QUANTITATIVE HISTORY
Host Institution Course Details
Host Institution Campus
University College London
Host Institution Faculty
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Host Institution Department
History
Course Last Reviewed
2021-2022
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SPORT AND SOCIETY IN MODERN ITALY
Country
Italy
Host Institution
UC Center, Rome
Program(s)
Art, Food and Society
UCEAP Course Level
Upper Division
UCEAP Subject Area(s)
Sociology
History
UCEAP Course Number
112
UCEAP Course Suffix
UCEAP Official Title
SPORT AND SOCIETY IN MODERN ITALY
UCEAP Transcript Title
SPORT & SOCIETY
UCEAP Quarter Units
5.00
UCEAP Semester Units
3.30
Course Description
This course examines the role of sport (with an emphasis on soccer and cycling) in Italian society from historical and contemporary perspectives. It considers the relationship between sports and such issues as gender, race, class, ethnicity, sexuality, nationalism, nation-building, the Italian economy, and the role of the media in order to determine how developments in sports have influenced, and have been influenced by, Italian politics and society. The course explores sport in Italy from 1860 to the present.
Language(s) of Instruction
English
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SPORT AND SOCIETY IN MODERN ITALY
Host Institution Course Details
Host Institution Campus
Accent
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Course Last Reviewed
2022-2023