Description
125: The Emergence of the Modern World.
Goal: To analyze and evaluate the many forms of evidence which historians use to interpret and write history within the context of the early modern and modern periods.
Content: Through an analysis of various types of historical documentation such as newspapers, diaries, speeches, journals, a wide variety of governmental records, oral histories, film, television, photographs, and art, students will encounter the world's civilizations since 1650. In examining major historical issues such as "Western" hegemony in the modern world, the social and political context of the emergence of modern political ideologies, war and revolution in the twentieth century, and the "New World Order," students will be asked to evaluate the many forms of evidence which historians use to interpret and write history.
Taught: Spring.
Gen. Ed. Category: Expanding; Diverse & Independent World; (SBS).
Credit: 3 hours.