Syllabus
Online - Dr. Larsen
Units - Last one week
Class divided into three sections
- first two have a midterm
- then a final
Quizzes
- Closed-note
- 16% of grade
- Good review for exams
Discussions
- 14% of grade
- Must answer one question thread per week:
- Fully answer the question
- Use examples and evidence from reading & lectures
- Global in scope
- not just US/West perspective
- Respond to two people per week
Exams
- 40% of the class
- 10% each midterm
- 20% final
- Cumulative
Objective section - Chronology questions:
- Pick from ranges where events happened
- Order events
- Geography questions:
- Where things took place
- The intersection of geography with the key events, actors, and developments that we will read about and discuss throughout the course
- Essays - one on midterms, two on final
- "Copious amounts of evidence"
- Can often go either way depending on your analysis
- At least 5-6 paragraphs, probably more
Section Essays (homework)
- 30% of course
- 15% each
- 5 pages double-spaced
- Two essays
- Pick question from syllabus
- Choose academic format and mention it in the works cited
Big themes
Three Ages
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Early-modern world (1500-1688)
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Age of Revolutions (1688-1914)
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Age of Extremes (1914-Present)
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Nationalism & the rise of the nation state
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Industrialization
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Imperialism
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Mondernization
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Globalization
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The Environment