HIST215W
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Modern Western Civilization examines the cultural, political, economic, and religious evolution of Western thought and the development of Western Civilization from 1500 to the present. The course explores the decline of absolute monarchies, the rise of revolutionary ideologies, the Enlightenment, political revolutions in Western nations, industrialization, the birth of modern science, and the process of change in contemporary Western society. (Co-requisite: ENGL120W strongly recommended)