6973001 European History
| Numbering Code | Year/Term | 2022 ・ First semester | ||
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| Number of Credits | 2 | Course Type | Seminar | |
| Target Year | Target Student | |||
| Language | Japanese | Day/Period | Fri.5 | |
| Instructor name | KOYAMA SATOSHI (Graduate School of Letters Professor) | |||
| Outline and Purpose of the Course | This seminar aims to understand the points at issue in the early modern history of Europe more deeply by reading and discussing recent publications. | |||
| Course Goals | This seminar aims at helping students understand the important problems of early modern European history. | |||
| Schedule and Contents |
We often call the early modern period in Europe "the age of the printing revolution." This change was not only a technical one, but also a fundamental transformation of the methods of generation, preservation, and circulation of knowledge. We will read and discuss the following book which views these changes as an information revolution: Paul M. Dover, The Information Revolution in Early Modern Europe, Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, 2021. Week 1: Introduction. Weeks 2-15: Reading and discussion. |
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| Evaluation Methods and Policy | Students will be evaluated by reading and joining discussions. | |||
| Course Requirements | None | |||
| Study outside of Class (preparation and review) | Students must prepare the seminar each week. | |||
| Textbooks | Textbooks/References | Others; the copy of the text will be distributed to students in the seminar. | ||
| References, etc. | Others; reference literature will be introduced in the seminar. | |||
