The principal political, economic, cultural, and social developments in world history from 1648 to the present, relating the past to the present.
Course gives equal weight to the history of Asia, Africa, the Americas, and Europe.
The focus on themes, such as violence, colonization, economic production, social reproduction, and nationalism, helps students to integrate narratives of apparently distant people and places into their own understandings of the present. With this end in mind, students will apply critical thinking skills to current news sources in addition to historians more traditional modes of reading and writing.