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World History I – HIST 151
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Syllabus – HIST 151 – SP2021
Week 1 – Introduction to Course
HIST 151 – Weeks 2 to 6
Week 2 – Cave Paintings
Week 3 – Chapter 1: Peopling the World, to 4000 B.C.E.
Lecture – The Heroʻs Journey
Week 4 – Chapter 2: Temples and Palaces: Birth of the City 5000-1200 B.C.E.
Week 5 – Chapter 3: 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 – Chapter 4: Empire and Resistance in the Mediterranean 1550-330 B.C.E.
Lecture – Alexander the Great
Week 8 – Chapter 5: Peoples and World Empires of Eurasia 500 B.C.E.–500 C.E.
Week 9 – Chapter 6: The Unification of Western Eurasia 500 B.C.E.–500 C.E.
Week 10 – Socratic Seminar – Oedipus Rex
Seminar Reflection – Oedipus Rex
Week 11 – Chapter 8: The Worlds of Christianity and Islam 400–1000
HIST 151 – Weeks 12 to 16
Week 12 – Chapter 9: Religion and Cross-Cultural Exchange in Asia 400–1000
Week 13 – Chapter 10: Societies and Networks in the Americas and the Pacific 300–1200
Week 14 – Chapter 7: Reading the Unwritten Record: Peoples of Africa, the Americas, and the Pacific Islands 3000 B.C.E.–500 C.E.
Week 15 – Socratic Seminar: The Epic of Sundiata
Seminar Reflection – The Epic of Sundiata
Mapping the World
Maps – Part 1
Maps – Part 2
Maps – Part 3
Final Project
Key Theme #1 – Patterns of Population
Key Theme #2 – Economic Networks & Exchange
Key Theme #3 – Uses and Abuses of Power
Key Theme #4 – Haves & Have-Nots
Key Theme #5 – Expressing Identity
Key Theme #6 – Science, Technology, and the Environment
Key Theme #7 – Spiritual Life and Moral Codes
World History II – HIST 152
Start Here First
Syllabus – HIST 152
Week 1 – Introduction to Course
HIST 152 – Weeks 2 to 6
Week 2 – Chapter 14: Collapse and Revival in Afro-Eurasia 1300-1450
Week 3 – Chapter 15: Empires and Alternatives in the Americas 1430-1530
Week 4 – Doctrine of Discovery
Week 5 – Chapter 16: The Rise of the Atlantic World 1450-1600
Lecture – Drug Foods
Week 6 – Chapter 17: 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 – Chapter 18: Trade and Empire in the Indian Ocean and South Asia 1450–1750
Week 9 – Chapter 19: Consolidation and Conflict in Europe and the Greater Mediterranean 1450-1750
Week 10 – Chapter 20: Expansion and Isolation in Asia 1450-1750
Week 11 – Chapter 21: Transforming New Worlds: The American Colonies Mature 1600-1750
Lecture – The Enlightenment & Great Awakening
HIST 152 – Weeks 12 to 16
Week 12 – Chapter 22: Atlantic Revolutions and the World 1750-1830
Week 13 – Socratic Seminar – Atlantic Revolutions
Sources: American Revolution – Day 1
Sources: French Revolution & the Napoleonic Empire – Day 1
Sources: Haitian Revolution – Day 2
Sources: Latin American Revolutions – Day 2
Seminar Reflection – Atlantic Revolutions
Week 14 – Chapter 23: Industry and Everyday Life 1750-1900
Lecture – Frederick Douglass
Week 15 – Chapter 24: Nation-States and Their Empires 1830-1900
Week 16 – Chapter 25: Wars, Revolutions, and the Birth of Mass Society 1900-1929
Socratic Seminar – World War I
WWI – Sources – Day 1
WWI – Sources – Day 2
Seminar Reflection – World War I
Mapping the World
Maps – Part 1
Maps – Part 2
Maps – Part 3
Student Resources
American History I – HIST 281
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 13 – Manifest Destiny
Lecture – Frederick Douglass
Week 14 – The Sectional Crisis
Mexican-American War
Compromise of 1850
Fugitive Slave Act
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Dred Scott Decision
Lecture – John Brown
Week 15 – The Civil War
The North during the Civil War
The South during the Civil War
Civil War Soldiers’ Story
African-American Soldiers in the Civil War
Week 16 – Reconstruction: Socratic Seminar
Sources – Reconstruction
Seminar Reflection – Reconstruction
American History II – HIST 282
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
2020 Election Information
Student Teach-Ins
Teach-Ins > Fall 2015
Teach-Ins > Spring 2016
Student Teach-In: Why Voting Matters – Nov. 1, 2018
Hoʻoulu – UHMC Student Newspaper
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