printer friendly pageHISTORY 1: The History of 2024
How can we understand the events, ideas, and conflicts that have featured in the news cycle during the past year? "The History of 2024" offers historically informed reflections on this year's momentous events, providing an opportunity to understand our world in its historic context. Each week will feature a different History faculty member speaking on a major news topic of the year, showing what we can learn by approaching it from a historical perspective. The course is open to all students (newcomers and history veterans alike) who want to reflect on the challenges and opportunities of 2024, and who are curious to consider how studying history can offer a deeper and richer understanding of tumultuous times.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 1
| Repeatable
4 times
(up to 4 units total)
Instructors:
Twitty, A. (PI)
HISTORY 1A: Global History: The Ancient World (CLASSICS 76)
World history from the origins of humanity to the Black Death. Focuses on the evolution of complex societies, wealth, violence, hierarchy, and large-scale belief systems.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 3-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, GER:EC-GlobalCom, WAY-SI
HISTORY 1B: Global History: The Early Modern World, 1300 to 1800
(Course is offered for 3 OR 5 units.) Topics include early globalization and cross-cultural exchanges; varying and diverse cultural formations in different parts of the world; the growth and interaction of empires and states; the rise of capitalism and the economic divergence of "the west"; changes in the nature of technology, including military and information technologies; migration of ideas and people (including the slave-trade); disease, climate, and environmental change over time. Designed to accommodate beginning students, non-majors, and more advanced history students
Terms: Win
| Units: 3-5
| UG Reqs: GER:EC-GlobalCom, WAY-SI, GER:DB-Hum, WAY-EDP
Instructors:
Acosta, E. (PI)
HISTORY 1C: Global History through Graphic Novels: The Modern Age
(Course is offered for 3 OR 5 units.)
History 1C explores the making of our modern world. It investigates the interconnected histories of revolution, war, imperialism, migration, race, slavery, democracy, rebellion, nationalism, feminism, socialism, fascism, genocide, anti-colonialism, neoliberalism, and populist authoritarianism. Analyzing memoirs, novels, films, and other sources, we investigate how key political ideas have transformed societies, cultures, and economies across the globe from the late eighteenth century through to the present.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, GER:EC-GlobalCom, WAY-EDP, WAY-SI
Instructors:
Crews, R. (PI)
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