HIST& 128 - World Civilizations III

• Social Sciences Distribution Requirement

• Fulfills Engage General Education Requirement

1. Understand present-day political and social forces and movements and their continuity.
2. Think terms of liberalism and authoritarianism and radicalism.
3. Recognize the shifting power alignment of the world.
4. Be more aware of class and class conflict.
5. Be more conscious of/and knowledgeable about competing social, political, and economic systems of today that are rooted in the 19th century.
6. SOCIAL SCIENCES: Apply concepts from the social sciences to analyze individual or social phenomena, processes, events, conflicts, or issues.

1. Europe’s conservatism, 1815-50, monarchists and absolutist.
2. Europe’s new industrial classes.
3. The European state system.
4. Europe’s last move to control the world.
5. The Hey-Day of European power collapses in WWI.
6. The aftermath of WWI: The overthrow of monarchism, new democracies, new absolutisms, and 20th century liberalism.
7. The aftermath of WWII: The new national alignments, the cold war, a new internationalism, new power centers-Europe’s decline, authoritarianism and liberty still in conflict.
8. Students are asked to ponder similarities between historic and current events/situations; and both actual and potential social responses to those situations.
9. Students are introduced to the need to question the source(s) of historical information; and to become conscious of the difference between historical data and historical interpretation (theory); and to become aware of history as propaganda, as legend, as myth and to seek reasons why.
10. Students are encouraged in these through processes through in-class, verbal questioning, and through carefully worded test questions that cannot be answered via simple memorization.
11. Students are asked to ask who, what, when, where (as historical data); and then to think their way as to why and so what (as theory and interpretation) especially as they search for causation.