HIST 1060 - World History to 1500

Credits: 4
Hours/Week: Lecture 4 Lab 0
Internship hours per week 0
Course Description: This course surveys the beginning of recorded human history to the early modern period, focusing on the intended and unintended consequences of human activity across the world. Recurring themes include global diversity, human-environment interactions, power imbalances, intellectual movements, and social/political movements. The course will also introduce the limitations of historical sources, how knowledge about the past is produced, and the relevance of history to contemporary issues and questions.
MnTC Goals
Goal 5 Goal 8

Prerequisite(s): Course placement into college-level English and Reading OR completion of ENGL 0950  with a grade of C or higher OR completion of RDNG 0940  with a grade of C or higher and qualifying English Placement Exam OR completion of RDNG 0950  with a grade of C or higher and ENGL 0090  with a grade of C or higher OR completion of ESOL 0051  with a grade of C or higher and ESOL 0052  with a grade of C or higher.
Corequisite(s): None
Recommendation: None

Major Content

1. Early Humanity
2. Rivers, Cities, and the First States
3. First Empires and Dynasties
4. Global Ancient Societies
5. Religion and Philosophy
6. Early Medieval Europe
7. The Pre-Modern Pacific
8. Cross-Cultural Connections
9. Natural Disasters and Civilizational Change
10. Exploration and Emerging Global Systems
11. Transitions to Modernity

1. interpret the history of the pre-modern world by making connections between events, movements, and ideas in the past.
2. use historical thinking to make connections between pre-modern history and the present.
3. assess the relevance and limitations of primary and secondary sources.
4. formulate a historical argument.
5. evaluate varied perspectives of human history using knowledge of diverse peoples within their distinctive historical contexts.

05. 02. Examine social institutions and processes across a range of historical periods and cultures.

05. 03. Use and critique alternative explanatory systems or theories.
Theme Goals (MnTC Goals 7-10)
08. 01. Describe and analyze political, economic, and cultural elements which influence relations of states and societies in their historical and contemporary dimensions.

08. 02. Demonstrate knowledge of cultural, social, religious and linguistic differences.

08. 03. Analyze specific international problems, illustrating the cultural, economic, and political differences that affect their solution.

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