For more information on potential assignment, visit Career Development Services in 315 Calvin Hall. This course is organized around the proposition that the most important features of the contemporary global system grow out of a series of interrelated revolutions centered in Western Europe and beginning around 1500. This profoundly shapes the relationships among the world's peoples and between human society and its natural environment. The course traces the evolution of this system and the ways in which it imposed itself on societies worldwide. There are regular quizzes and a final exam, but no midterm.
Students work on an individual project with a faculty member.
The course is divided into three parts. The course involves primarily simulations and discussion, but also includes lectures, and occasionally films and guest speakers. Global Studies and other non-law students are given special consideration separate from law students in final grading. Non-law students are expected to be present on the first day of law school courses . The course is open to upper-division undergraduates, usually seniors, and graduate students from any discipline, as well as law students.