HIST 459 - The Twenty-First Century World

Credit(s): 3
Lecture Hours: 3
Lab Hours: 0
When Offered: As Needed

A topical, cross-cultural seminar dealing with major twenty-first century civilizational values and dynamics, their roots, and their impact on human beings and the environment. Includes, but is not limited to, the study of human and civil rights, migrations, global warming, modernism and post-modernism, social engineering, the industrial economies, and imperial power. This writing-intensive course uses a variety of historical methods to contribute to emerging narratives and to construct syntheses.