Sections offered SPRING 2021:
#34120 |
DANIEL CANER |
TR 1:10-2:30pm
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WEB |
CLASS NOTES: Satisfaction of the English composition requirement; COLL Intensive Writing section; IUB GenEd S&H credit; COLL (CASE) S&H Breadth of Inquiry credit
Above class meets 100% Online through Synchronous instruction. For more information visit https://covid.iu.edu/learning-modes/index.html
This Intensive Writing Honors course introduces students to some prominent, recent, broad theories of “macrohistory” that use various scientific approaches such as anthropology and geographical biology to explain why societies and regions have developed so differently in different parts of the world. It also addresses questions like: do laws exist in history as they do in biology and other sciences? How significant are individual humans in changing history? Why did technologies get invented or discovered in certain times and places and not in others? How might we account for the recent domination of European civilizations over others? Can previous patterns be used to predict the future?