Course Schedule and Catalog

Department: Humanities Division

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: THE WORLD AND THE WEST ***** DISTRIBUTION COURSE GROUP 1 ***** This course aims first to provide an introduction to the last 500 years of world history, focusing on those processes that define the modern period, including industrialization, democratization, colonialism, and the emergence of new forms of cultural production. Second, we explore how and why such processes have come to divide the modern world into a West and non-West. ***** Also offered as HIST 235 and 365. *****