HIST 125: Introduction to Global History

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

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Section Information for Fall 2025

This course will explore how the modern world has been shaped by historical forces such as trade, colonialism, urbanization, slavery, industrialization, revolution, nationalism, and migration. Throughout the course, we will also consider the global impacts of religion, environmental change, technology, and disease. During the latter half of the course, we will examine the histories of the 20th and early 21st century while analyzing modern revolutions, anti-colonial movements, and the Global Cold War and its ongoing legacies. By the end of the semester, students should have a grasp of major trends that have shaped six centuries of world history. 

HIST 125 DLC is an online asynchronous section.

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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
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This course is graded on the Undergraduate Regular scale.

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