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HIST 200: Sophomore Colloquium:  Debating the French Revolution (4 credits)
Elisabeth Wengler
The ideas and events of the French Revolution continue to be hotly debated more than 200 years later. Was it a revolution of the bourgeoisie? What role did books and ideas play? Why did the revolution devolve into the Reign of Terror? Was the Revolution a success or a failure? Was women's position better or worse as a result? We will explore these and other questions by examining a variety of primary sources (such as documents that provide eye witness accounts of events such as the fall of the Bastille, newspaper articles written from various political perspectives, revolutionary songs, and images from the period) as well as secondary sources. Early in the semester, we will attempt to recapture the experience of the revolutionaries through an intensive role-playing game where students assume, research, and reenact the roles of various revolutionary factions in the National Assembly. We will continue to follow our characters through the rest of the revolution to see how they might have reacted and fared by the Napoleonic era.

HIST 200: Sophomore Colloquium: Debating the French Revolution (2 credits)
Elisabeth Wengler
You must fill out an ILP form to register for this 2 credit version which will meet AB mod.
The ideas and events of the French Revolution continue to be hotly debated more than 200 years later. Was it a revolution of the bourgeoisie? Was it a revolution of the working class? What role did books and ideas play?  Was the Revolution a success or a failure?  We will explore these and other questions through an intensive role-playing game in which you, the students, become revolutionaries and debate the future of France.