HIS 1700 - WORLD HISTORY

credits: 3.0
Explores the history of the world through a number of themes such as agriculture, migration, food, religion, art, literature, and technology. By means of these themes we can understand the processes and systems that have bridged the gap between cultures and places. The course’s scope is global and explores the human story not predominantly as a collection of discrete narrative but as a long process of appropriation and exchange of practices, ideas, materials, and people across space and time. The course covers a range of case studies from Buddhism to the AK47. This course is not designed to give a comprehensive overview of the history of all of the cultures of the world, but to explore the larger processes that have animated human interactions through time. This larger history will help us to explore a number of constructs that have been central to the way the history of the world has been described such as invention, nations, citizen, discovery, civilization, progress and so on in order to better understand our own global context. Objectives: A) Identify the major factors in the global movement of practices, ideas, and people through time; B) Describe major trends in world history and the impact they have had on our daily lives; C) Interpret and analyze primary sources; D) Communicate effectively, in writing and speaking, about historical developments in world history. Method of Instruction: Lecture and discussion. Method of Evaluation: Reading quizzes 10%, Essays 15%, and three exams 25% each. Meets *GLP Distribution Requirement.