HIST 125: Introduction to Global History

HIST 125-013: Introduction to World History
(Fall 2023)

04:30 PM to 07:10 PM M

Planetary Hall 120

Section Information for Fall 2023

Today’s world is being rapidly reshaped by interconnected commerce, digital technologies, surging migration, and the challenges of disease and climate change, yet these forces have origins dating back centuries. This lecture course introduces students to some of the most significant people, events, and movements that altered the politics, cultures, and economies of Africa, Asia, the Americas, Europe, and the Middle East from the 11th through the 21st centuries. It explores how religion, war, industrialization, colonialism, and globalism reshaped the world and continue to impact our modern lives in innumerable ways.  

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Course Information from the University Catalog

Credits: 3

By focusing on historical experiences that reflect the diversity of Mason’s student body, students will be able to see how their families and communities fit within, and contribute to, global history from the pre-modern period to our present day. This course offers a long-term historical perspective on structural issues challenging our world today, including demographic and environmental changes, national and global inequalities, and the underrepresentation of marginalized groups. Students will gain an understanding of how interconnections and inter-dependencies have been forged through the global movement of people, pathogens, goods, and ideas. Limited to three attempts.
Mason Core: Global History
Schedule Type: Lecture, Recitation
Grading:
This course is graded on the Undergraduate Regular scale.

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