Examines Eastern European history from the 18th
through 20th centuries: the "nationalities
question" that emerged from within the Habsburg
and Russian empires; multinational zones; wars;
successor states of the interwar period; the
Balkans and the Yugoslav dissolution of the 1990s;
consideration of East Europeans' membership in the
EU. Students will learn to do primary and
secondary source research and will conduct an
original research project over the course of the
semester.