Course Catalog

Firstbridge courses are offered to degree seeking freshmen and registration is done via webform in pre-arrival checklist.

Examines French history between 1770 and 1815: the rise of the modern monarchical state, population growth and increased commercial wealth calling for flexibility and innovation, new values of the Enlightenment urging a rethinking of traditional beliefs and practices, war and bankruptcy precipitating revolution and bringing to power men such as Robespierre and Napoleon.

This course explores the diversity—and evolving meaning—of slavery in human society. Students will study the experience of slavery as well its legal structure, economic and
political function, and cultural representation in a variety of contexts ranging from classical antiquity to Mughal India and the American South.

This course offers an introduction to the first century and a half of Islamic society, 600-700 AD. It builds on knowledge of ways of writing about the past which students have acquired in earlier courses. The focus of the course is the rise and development of the religion of Islam and the key events and figures in the process. They will read extracts by those who wrote history in the early Islamic centuries – and those who have approached early Islam and is history in the global North, notably since he nineteenth century.