Courses

Explore global interdependence from the period of transoceanic exploration to the present. Trace cross-cultural interactions among societies, states, and economies of Asia, Europe, Africa, the Americas, and Oceania.

This course is a continuation of HY 117, Comparative World Civilizations. The course will examine the interactions between major world civilizations in Europe, Africa, and Asia. Course material will examine developments of history, politics, economics, and religion since 1500. History, PW: Global Engagement

A survey of world civilization from 1648 to the present.

A comprehensive historical survey of the major issues in global history from pre-civilization to 1500, with emphasis given to the cultural, economic and political interrelationships of the early world civilizations.

A comprehensive historical survey of the major issues of global history from 1500 to the twentieth century with emphasis given to the cultural, economic, ecological and technological interrelationship of modern global cultures.

This course surveys the origins, development, and character of the major centers of civilizations and their relationships to one another from the earliest civilizations to 1500.

(HIST 2321) World History to 1500. Development of major world societies in the premodern era; emergence of agrarian-based modes of production, political states, religious economy and a global division of systems; Eurasian world system and the civilizations of Africa and the Americas.

Students examine the history of the world from the dawn of civilization in Mesopotamia, Ages in Europe and Asia. Topics may include the Middle Ages, Renaissance, 2311 .

World History to 1500 surveys social, intellectual, economic, and political developments which have molded the modern world. Focus is on both non-western and western civilizations from the prehistoric to the early modern era.

This course examines the political, economic, religious and social history of the world from the first civilizations that emerged around 3000 BC to about the year AD 1500. In this course we will discuss the creation of civilizations, the rise and fall of empires, and the similarities and differences between these various cultures with regard to their development.