HU 205 - Enlightenment and Revolution

Covers the years from the seventeenth century to 1815. The major areas of consideration are: society after the Reformation, absolutism and the empires, the Industrial and French Revolutions, and the causes and effects of the Enlightenment through the Napoleonic Era. Readings may include works of Pascal, The New Science (Bacon, Galileo, Descartes, Locke, and/or Newton), and selections from the area of society and politics (Hobbes, Molière, Locke, Pope, Voltaire, and/or Rousseau).

Credits: 3 cr.
Liberal Studies Requirement: Culture and Civilization