HIST 125: Introduction to Global History

HIST 125-020: Introduction to World History
(Fall 2017)

03:00 PM to 04:15 PM MW

Nguyen Engineering Building 1109

Section Information for Fall 2017

This course explores broad historical changes that gave rise to today’s modern world. Starting around the year 1250, we will explore networks and interactions that connected Africa, Southwest Asia, Eastern Asia, Europe, and the Americas. By critically engaging with both primary and secondary sources, we will discuss the effects of globalization and the development of mercantilism, industrialization, imperialism, colonialism, nationalism, Cold War dynamics, ideological clashes, and anti-colonialism. Throughout the semester students will analyze documents, identify major global trends and processes that occurred during the last eight centuries, and develop a historical literacy through digital, spoken, and written communications.

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Course Information from the University Catalog

Credits: 3

By focusing on historical experiences that reflect the diversity of Mason’s student body, students will be able to see how their families and communities fit within, and contribute to, global history from the pre-modern period to our present day. This course offers a long-term historical perspective on structural issues challenging our world today, including demographic and environmental changes, national and global inequalities, and the underrepresentation of marginalized groups. Students will gain an understanding of how interconnections and inter-dependencies have been forged through the global movement of people, pathogens, goods, and ideas. Limited to three attempts.
Mason Core: Global History
Schedule Type: Lecture, Recitation
Grading:
This course is graded on the Undergraduate Regular scale.

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