HIST 1061 - World History since 1500

Credits: 4
Hours/Week: Lecture 4 Lab 0
Internship hours per week 0
Course Description: This course surveys the early modern era through the present, focusing on the intended and unintended consequences of human activity across the world. Recurring themes include global diversity, power imbalances, intellectual movements, nation-building, 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. The Early Modern World
2. Trade, Exploration, and Colonialism
3. The Atlantic World and the Slave Trade
4. Intellectual and Political Revolutions
5. Capitalism and Its Discontents
6. Nationalism and Imperialism
7. Industrialization and the Anthropocene
8. The Age of Catastrophe: Depression and World Wars
9. Decolonization and the Cold War
10. Globalization and the Information Age

1. interpret the history of the modern world by making connections between events, people, movements, and ideas in the past.
2. use historical thinking to make connections between modern world 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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