Superior

Prior to enrolling in courses at this language level, students must have completed or tested out of a minimum of 2 upper-division college-level Spanish courses at their home university in the U.S.

This course covers Economic History from the origins of capitalism of the XVI-XVIII centuries to the economic problems of the end of the twentieth century. The course is divided into historic blocks in order to cover the major economic developments: (1) Origins of Capitalism: demographics and agriculture in Modern Europe, (2) Industrial Revolution: the agrarian revolution, industrialization in France and Germany (3) Industrialization in the European periphery: Industrialization in Italy, Russia, Central Europe and Scandanavia (4) International Economy of the Nineteenth Century: international gold standard, the monetary and finance system, investment and exterior borrowing (5) the Second Industrial Revolution: the Great Depression and its repercussion, the industrial peak of the United States, the birth of Industrial Japan (6) The First World War to the Depression of the Nineteen Thirties: International Economic Crisis, Russia: from revolution to economic planification (7) Post War Recuperation: Building and Crisis: the second world war and the politics of destruction, the golden age of capitalism 1950-1973, economic problems of the eighties.