HIST 125: Introduction to Global History

HIST 125-024: Introduction to Global History
(Spring 2026)

01:30 PM to 02:45 PM TR

Innovation Hall 133

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Section Information for Spring 2026

This course will provide an understanding of the processes that have shaped the world in which we live. The course traces the developments that reorganized peoples, reshaped cultures, and generated new economies due to the interaction between major regions of the world from 1500 onward. The focus of the course will be on the processes of interaction and networks that resulted from mercantile expansion, the Industrial Revolution, imperialism, nationalism, and their legacies in the post-colonial period.


By the conclusion of the course, students should have a grasp of the major chronology of world history since 1500, an ability to demonstrate the changes, continuities, and connections between major world regions during this period, and the ability to assess and evaluate the sources, both primary and secondary, textual and visual, used in providing explanation and interpretation of world events and world history. Students will be expected to demonstrate these outcomes through essay exams, papers, and oral participation.
This course fulfills a Mason Core Global History requirement.

 “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. The courses will offer 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.”

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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
Grading:
This course is graded on the Undergraduate Regular scale.

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