Category: Contemporary Social Values
Component: Global Cultures
Description: This course will provide a broad historical survey of the key events, inter-relationships, and competing visions of society and modern life in various regions of the world in the late-19th and 20th centuries, which will help students better understand our world today. An array of methods, including lectures, readings, discussions, short writing assignments, and films will be used to help students make connections and understand the principal developments of 20th century world history and how people from different parts of the world (including Europe, the United States, Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East) experienced these developments and were affected by them. Primary themes include imperialism/colonialism, nationalism, nation and race, conflicting ideologies, war, genocide, and human rights abuses.