HIST 125: Introduction to Global History

HIST 125-011: Introduction to Global History
(Fall 2025)

12:00 PM to 01:15 PM TR

Innovation Hall 204

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Section Information for Fall 2025

It is the goal of this course to teach you the basics of a plethora of digital tools. These include online exhibition projects by using Omeka/Scalar, mapping historical data/places, how to digitize historical objects for online use, how to create and examine networks, and understanding the basics of OCR and transcription. While learning these digital tools are important to this class, we will also explore the history of digital history, as well as ethics, and the future of the digital humanities in academia. Through learning by doing, you will gain both digital skills and the skills of a historian; skills which will be useful to you throughout your university career and in your future work.  

While this course will not have an overarching historical theme, we will discuss an array of historical topics/problems each week that correspond with provided datasets to master each tool. 
 

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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. Offered by History & Art History. Limited to three attempts.
Mason Core: Mason Core, Global History
Schedule Type: Lecture, Recitation
Grading:
This course is graded on the Undergraduate Regular scale.

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