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HIS 113 - Faith & Violence in Early Modern Europe (First-Year Seminar*)

Three or Four Credits
Fall Semester

This course introduces students to college-level historical research within a specific topical framework: religious violence, persecution and conflict in post-Reformation Europe. Using primary and secondary readings, students will analyze the willingness to kill (inquisitions, witch hunts, religious warfare), the willingness to die (martyrdom), and the emergence of religious toleration and coexistence.

Prerequisite(s): *Four-Credit version open to First-Year Students only.
Considered a European History.
Three-Credit version fulfills the Cornerstone History Requirement.
*Four-Credit version fulfills the First-Year Seminar and Cornerstone History Requirements.