Ideas, Religion, Culture, and Education
To see all courses, with links to descriptions, view the Vassar College Catalogue.
Area of interest includes:
- Technology, Medicine and Science
- Religion and Society
- Intellectual History, Ideas, Education history and Literature
- Cultural History
100-level Courses
- 101 Martin Luther King Jr.
- 103 Hindus and Muslims in South Asia, 712-1857
- 116 The Dark Ages c. 400–900
- 122 Encounters in Modern East Asia
- 124 Europe 1945
- 126 Terrorism in Russia and Eurasia
- 151 British History: James I (1603) to the Great War
- 160 American Moments: Rediscovering US History
200-level Courses
- 215 The High Middle Ages c.950-1300
- 218 The Crusades, 1095-1291
- 225 Renaissance Italy
- 226 Northern Europe in the Renaissance, 1300-1550
- 230 From Tyranny to Terror: The Old Regime and the French Revolution
- 236 Germany, 1740 – 1918
- 253 The Jungle in Indian History
- 254 Victorian Britain
- 259 The History of the Family in Early Modern Europe
- 261 History of Women in the United States Since 1890
- 262 Contesting Colonialism: Latin America 1450-1750
- 264 The Revolutionary Option? Latin America in the Twentieth Century
- 274 Beyond Jamestown and Plymouth Rock: Revisiting, Revising & Reviving Early America
- 276 Democracy in America? US Politics and Power, 1828-1896
- 277 The Making of the “American Century”: 1890 – 1945
300-level Courses
- 304 Approaching the Taj Mahal
- 316 Constantinople/Istanbul: 1453
- 326 Machiavelli
- 332 Dangerous Ideas: Challenging Authority in 18th Century France
- 337 The Rise and Fall of Nazi Germany
- 357 The First World War
- 360 Black Business and Social Movements in the Twentieth Century
- 365 Race and the History of Jim Crow Segregation
- 369Themes in 20th Century Urban History
- 374 The African Diaspora
- 386 Central Asia and the Caucasus: Nation Building and Human Rights