HIST 143 History of Fascism and Nazism (3)
(BA) This course meets the Bachelor of Arts degree requirements.
History 143 engages the related topics of fascism and Nazism. Through a wide ranges of sources and media, students come to understanding the social context of fascism, its governing assumptions, ideals, and values, how it worked in practice, and its consequences and historical implications. The course contributes not only to the study of the history of authoritarianism, antisemitism, and the history of the holocaust, but also contemporary and modern European history and, of course, German, Italian, and Spanish history.