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Nov 12, 2024
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HIST 3356 - City of Light, City of Change: Paris in the Modern Era
Credits: 3
This course describes the experience of living in Paris beginning in the Old Regime to the modern era. It focuses on the social, cultural and physical aspects of life in the largest urban region of France as it underwent Revolution, class conflict, rebuilding, a flourishing of the arts, war and occupation, and political uncertainty to the present day. The course consists of lectures, readings, discussion and site visits. Evaluation will be by weekly writing assignments and a final exam. The course will use as text Colin Jones, Paris: Biography of a City (2004); Lewis Mumford, The City in History (1961); and Balzac’s novel Old Goriot (1835). Lectures will cover a wide variety of topics on the development of Paris since 1789. City of Light, City of Change will include informative cultural trips to sites in Paris and nearby, as well as trips to Bayeux and Strasbourg. (SMU-in-Paris)
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