HIST& 128: World Civilization III

Upon successful completion of the course, students should be able to demonstrate the following knowledge or skills:

1. Identify important people, developments, and ideas that have shaped human history from 1850 to the present day, including ways historical events and processes have been organized into definable but often tenuous chronological periods.
2. Critically examine change over time, specifically identifying the consequences of those changes in the diverse responses of people and societies that emerged throughout the modern world.
3. Evaluate the extent to which the development of technologies, industrialization, transportation methods, and exchange and communication networks have affected the environment over time.
4. Examine how religions, belief systems, philosophies, and ideologies affected political, economic, and social developments in the modern era.
5. Analyze how and why internal and external political factors have influenced the process of state building, expansion, and dissolution.
6. Analyze how economic systems and the development of ideologies, values, and institutions have influenced each other.
7. Evaluate the extent to which colonialism, nationalism, and independence movements have sustained or challenged class, gender, and racial hierarchies over time.
8. Identify and articulate parallels between challenges of the past and the issues of today in order to provide a better basis for personal responsibility, critical analysis, and empathy for other members of contemporary society.
9. Analyze, synthesize, and present information and knowledge pertaining to the modern historical era.
10. Demonstrate communication skills, both written and oral, by employing primary evidence in support of carefully formed conclusions regarding the historical record of the modern world.