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HIST-3B-MOD WORLD HIST: 1500-PRESENT-L3-25066
This ONLINE 8-Week course explores world history from the 1500s to the present, focusing on political, economic, social, and cultural factors that have shaped modern world history. Key themes include historical cause and effect, the impact of citizenship, class, gender, race, and ethnicity, and the difference between intended and unintended consequences. The course also covers major historical developments such as globalization, revolutions, imperialism, the World Wars, decolonization, and modern globalization, preparing students to become informed global citizens. Specific emphasis is placed on students developing historical understanding as well as critical thinking and creative thinking skills and practices to become more informed citizens and gain a deeper understanding of the culture, politics, economics, and societies.
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SOCSC-19-Introduction to Global Studies-L1-21744
This 100% ONLINE ASYNCHRONOUS course surveys different structures of, factors in, and challenges to globalization from different academic perspectives. We’ll study the history of globalization, ongoing debates about globalization, and the influence of economics, geography, and other national and international factors in shaping global citizenship and our world. The class will survey these influences as well as their current impacts around the world in an effort to better understand globalization. Introduction to Global Studies seeks to understand how and why globalization impacts and shapes our present and future by understanding different aspects of and influences to globalization. Specific emphasis is placed on students developing a broad understanding of globalization coupled with developing critical thinking and creative thinking skills and practices to become more informed citizens of the world and gain a deeper understanding of the world we live in today in order to, hopefully, positively influence the world in which we live in the future.
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HIST-19-HIST OF CALIFORNIA-L3-25098
This course offers a critical survey of California history from Indigenous lifeways to the present to explore the political economy, environmental transformation, and contested social geographies of the region. Emphasis is placed on the structures of power and displacement—from settler colonialism and racial capitalism to real estate speculation and ecological crisis—that have defined California’s development. Through analysis of migration, labor, urbanization, and environmental exploitation, students will examine how race, class, gender, and citizenship have shaped competing visions of California. The course centers the tensions between myth and material reality in the making of the "Golden State" and aims to develop students’ historical and critical capacities for understanding California not only as a place, but as a global force and a site of enduring struggle.
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HIST-3B-MOD WORLD HIST: 1500-PRESENT-L2-43658
This LATE-START 8-WEEK HYBRID course studies world history from the 1500s to the present. The course focuses on exploring the political, economic, social, and cultural factors that have shaped the historical development of the modern world and examines the impact of issues such as citizenship and sovereignty, class, gender, and race/ethnicity on world history and peoples around the world. Major themes this semester will include historical cause and effect and the difference between intended and unintended consequences. Specific emphasis is placed on developing historical understanding as well as critical thinking and creative thinking skills and practices to become more informed citizens of the world through an examination of early history to better understand what’s shaped the world and the people in it.