This course will cover global world history from approximately 600 C.E. to the present with a review of the Foundations Unit. Studentswill learn and analyze the impact of interactions among societies (trade, systems of international exchange, war, and diplomacy); the impact of technology and demography on people and the environment; systems of social and gender structure; cultural and intellectual developments; and changes in functions and structures of states and in attitudes toward states and political identities, including the emergence of the nation-state.
Course Outline
Rand McNally World Atlas
World History, Patterns of Interaction:
The Earth and Its Peoples: A Global History
Second Edition
The Human Record:
Sources of Global History, 4/e, ©2001