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Syllabus Introduction to early modern Europe - 39204
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Last update 25-10-2025
HU Credits: 2

Degree/Cycle: 1st degree (Bachelor)

Responsible Department: History

Semester: 1st Semester

Teaching Languages: Hebrew

Campus: Mt. Scopus

Course/Module Coordinator: Dror Wahrman

Coordinator Email: raz.chen-morris@mail.huji.ac.il

Coordinator Office Hours: Wednesday 10-12

Teaching Staff:
Prof. Dror Wahrman

Course/Module description:
This is an introduction to early modern European history, discussing the main topic and issues essential to understanding this period and the questions historians raise about it. The course consists of two elements that complement each other: lectures in class, and two papers based on the reading of four texts from the period

Course/Module aims:
see Hebrew

Learning outcomes - On successful completion of this module, students should be able to:
see Hebrew

Attendance requirements(%):
80%

Teaching arrangement and method of instruction: lectures, home tests

Course/Module Content:
SEE HEBREW

Required Reading:
Excerpts of Thomas More, Utopia
"On Cannibals" by Michel de Montaigne
Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe
Voltaire, Candide

Additional Reading Material:
see Hebrew

Grading Scheme :
Home Exam % 40
Essay / Project / Final Assignment / Referat 60 %

Additional information:
Lectures are mandatory. More than three absences are an immediate F.
 
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