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World History
World History to 1500
Pre-Course Activities
Week 1 – Introduction to Course
HIST 151 – Weeks 2 to 6
Week 2 – Cave Paintings
Week 3 – Peopling the World, to 4000 B.C.E.
Lecture – The Heroʻs Journey
Week 4 – Temples and Palaces: Birth of the City 5000-1200 B.C.E.
Week 5 – Settlers and Migrants: The Creation of States in Asia 5000-500 B.C.E.
Lecture – History of Chariots
Week 6 – Socratic Seminar – Epic of Gilgamesh
Seminar Reflection – Epic of Gilgamesh
HIST 151 – Weeks 7 to 11
Week 7 – Empire and Resistance in the Mediterranean 1550-330 B.C.E.
Lecture – Alexander the Great
Week 8 – Peoples and World Empires of Eurasia 500 B.C.E.–500 C.E.
Week 9 – The Unification of Western Eurasia 500 B.C.E.–500 C.E.
Week 10 – Socratic Seminar – Oedipus Rex
Seminar Reflection – Oedipus Rex
Week 11 – The Worlds of Christianity and Islam 400–1000
HIST 151 – Weeks 12 to 16
Week 12 – Religion and Cross-Cultural Exchange in Asia 400–1000
Week 13 – Societies and Networks in the Americas and the Pacific 300–1200
Week 14 – Reading the Unwritten Record: Peoples of Africa, the Americas, and the Pacific Islands 3000 B.C.E.–500 C.E.
Week 15 – The Rise of Commerce in Afro-Eurasia 900–1300
Week 16 – Centers of Learning and the Transmission of Culture 900–1300
Socratic Seminar Reflection – The Epic of Sundiata
World History since 1500
Pre-Course Activities
Week 1 – Introduction to Course
HIST 152 – Weeks 2 to 6
Week 2 – Collapse and Revival in Afro-Eurasia 1300-1450
Week 3 – Empires and Alternatives in the Americas 1430-1530
Week 4 – Doctrine of Discovery
Week 5 – The Rise of the Atlantic World 1450-1600
Lecture – Drug Foods
Week 6 – Western Africa in the Era of the Atlantic Slave Trade 1450-1800
HIST 152 – Weeks 7 to 11
Week 7 – Socratic Seminar: Atlantic Slave Trade
Sources: Atlantic Slave Trade – Day 1
Sources: Atlantic Slave Trade – Day 2
Seminar Reflection – Atlantic Slave Trade
Week 8 – Trade and Empire in the Indian Ocean and South Asia 1450–1750
Week 9 – Consolidation and Conflict in Europe and the Greater Mediterranean 1450-1750
Week 10 – Expansion and Isolation in Asia 1450-1750
Week 11 – Transforming New Worlds: The American Colonies Mature 1600-1750
Lecture – The Enlightenment & Great Awakening
HIST 152 – Weeks 12 to 16
Week 12 – Atlantic Revolutions and the World 1750-1830
Week 14 – Industry and Everyday Life 1750-1900
Lecture – Frederick Douglass
Week 15 – Nation-States and Their Empires 1830-1900
Week 16 – Wars, Revolutions, and the Birth of Mass Society 1900-1929
Socratic Seminar – World War I
American History
Introduction to American History I
Pre-Course Activities
Required Resources
Week 1 – Welcome to HIST 281
HIST 281 – Weeks 2 to 6
Week 2 – Doctrine of Discovery
Week 3 – British North America
Week 4 – Colonial Society
Week 5 – The American Revolution: Socratic Seminar
Sources: American Revolution – Day 1
Sources: American Revolution – Day 2
Seminar Reflection: American Revolution
Week 6 – A New Nation
HIST 281 – Weeks 7 to 11
Week 8 – The Early Republic
Week 9 – The Market Revolution
Week 10 – Democracy in America: Socratic Seminar
Sources: Jackson & Nullification – Day 1
Sources: Jackson & the Bank War – Day 2
Seminar Reflection: Democracy in America
Religion and Reform
Week 11 – The Cotton Revolution
HIST 281 – Weeks 12 to 16
Week 12 – Manifest Destiny
Week 13 – The Sectional Crisis
Mexican-American War
Compromise of 1850
Fugitive Slave Act
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Dred Scott Decision
Civil War
*Extra Credit* – Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Introduction to American History II
Required Resources
Capital & Labor
Conquering the West
Life in Industrial America
American Empire
The Progressive Era
World War I & Its Aftermath
World War II
Communism & Hollywood
The Affluent Society
The Sixties
U.S. Civics
Hawaiian Kingdom
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Student Teach-In: Why Voting Matters – Nov. 1, 2018
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