Description
The wars and revolutions between 1750 and 1850 mark our lives, national politics and cultural consumption to this day, because many key beliefs in Europe and the Americas regarding society, gender, and politics were forged in the fires of the American, French, and Haitian Revolutions, the Mexican War of Independence, the Napoleonic Wars, and the European Revolutions of 1830 and 1848. These epochal events shaped democratic and socialist forms of government, led to current understanding of human rights, and defined the body politic in nation states on both sides of the Atlantic. Literature and art reflected these wars and revolutions in their manifestations; music could provide the rousing sounds for a marching army; the writings of Beaumarchais, Jefferson, and Voltaire provided the spark to the revolutionary powder keg. Furthermore, the arts enlisted revolutionary ideologies for the very fabric of their production, whether in the paintings of a Delacroix or the novels of Mary Shelley. This course cluster presents a transdisciplinary approach to this complex and influential nexus of history, literature, and art by combining courses taught within these disciplines with a gateway course that addresses the underlying issues of war, politics and culture for this period.

Learning Opportunities
The proposed cluster of courses will enable students to explore these fundamental issues through courses that connect political and historical events with cultural production. The cluster will demonstrate how intimately intertwined the worlds of politics, history, literature, and art were (and are) in the Western world. Through transdisciplinary and transatlantic perspectives, students will make connections between cultures and events in Europe and the Americas; they will investigate how literature, art, and politics interact; and they will engage critically with such fundamental issues as war, revolution, representation, and agency; skill-based outcomes include training in research, analytical thinking, and presentation skills.

Cluster Structure
Students have to take at least three courses, including the gateway course. At least one course should be taken in a division outside the primary major. Students are strongly encouraged to take more courses of the cluster and engage in enrichment activities specific to the cluster, such as special lectures, group discussions, and exhibitions and performances.

HIST / PWAD 268 Gateway Course War, Revolution and Culture: Transatlantic Perspectives, 1750-1850 (Dr. Karen Hagemann, Dr. Wayne Lee or Dr. Terence McIntosh)
Fine Arts	Humanities	Social Sciences
ART 370 Visual Art in the Age of Revolution (Dr. Mary Sheriff)	ENGL 437 The Chief English Romantic Writers (Dr. Joseph Viscomi or Dr. Jeanne Moskal)	HIST 465 Modern European Intellectual History (Dr. Lloyd Kramer)
MUSC 289 Sounds of War and Revolution, 1750-1850 (Dr. Annegret Fauser)	FREN 275 Sex, Philosophy and Politics: Revolutions in French Literature, 1721-1834 (Dr. Philippe Barr)	HIST 457 The French Revolution (Dr. Jay Smith)
	GERM 330 The Age of Goethe (Dr. Jonathan M. Hess )	HIST / PWAD 546 Revolution and Nation-Making in America, 1763–1815 (Dr. Kathleen DuVal)