HIST 125: Introduction to Global History

HIST 125-009: Introduction to Global History
(Spring 2026)

01:30 PM to 02:45 PM W

Innovation Hall 103

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Section Information for Spring 2026

The first quarter of the 21st-century world has been defined by rapid and far-reaching transformations. Climate change, violent conflict, and pandemic disease have affected access to health, shelter, food, and well-being. This course helps us understand our place in the global community by examining the events that created the modern world. We focus on Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East and while also considering the U.S. and Europe. Over the period considered in this course these regions became enmeshed in a global system formed through far-reaching environmental transformations, colonialism, mercantile activity, and industrial growth. These transformations produced the modern world we live in.   

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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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