Early Modern World

专业介绍

The Concentration in Early Modern World promotes interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary approaches to historical cultures around the world between the waning of feudalism and the arrival of global industrial capitalism, from the 1300s to the end of the 1800s.

Students take courses in a wide range of departments and with faculty affiliated with the Center for the Study of the Early Modern World. Concentrators have the opportunity to be mentored by faculty, staff at the special collections libraries at Brown, and graduate students working on contiguous topics.

Students are invited to take advantage of this breadth of offerings to enhance their understanding of the period, as well as to gain a sense of the uses, limitations, and interrelationships of particular disciplinary approaches.

Student Goals

Students in this concentration will:

• Understand the thought and social practices that distinguish pre-modern from contemporary societies
• Develop an interdisciplinary approach to the study of historical cultures between 1350-1800 CE
• Demonstrate reading knowledge of a non-English language relevant to one’s area of focus
• Complete a senior project in consultation with the concentration’s faculty advisors