If you do well in this course, you will be able to:

• Express an understanding of forces that foster global connections among places, persons, groups, and/or knowledge systems through written activities.
• Explain human and social experiences and activities from multiple perspectives from 1500 CE through the present.
• Compare and contrast multiple perspectives or theories on global processes and systems throughout time.
• Describe how global relations impact individual lives and the lives of others over time.
• The Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries: Suggested Context Trans-Oceanic and Trans-Continental Trade (ex. the Trans-Atlantic slave trade, Indian Ocean trade, Eurasian trade), Overseas Empires and Land-based Empires (ex. Spain, the Ottoman Empire, the Qing dynasty, Muscovy), The rise of the nation-state, Columbian Exchange, European Intellectual Movement.
• Develop multiple historical literacies by analyzing primary sources of various kinds (texts, images, music) and using these sources as evidence to support interpretation of historical events.
• Identify and/or explain the origins of complex societies.
• Identify trans-global systems.
• The Long Eighteenth Century: Suggested Context The Enlightenment, The Age of Revolutions (ex. Latin America, Haiti, USA, France), Nationalism and national identities (ex. France, Latin America, North America, the Caribbean), The Qing Dynasty.
• Analyze the development and impact of culture, economics, politics, society, technology, and religious and philosophical ideas.
• Identify the causes of the rise of modern states.
• Compare and contrast global and trans-oceanic connections.
• The Nineteenth Century: Suggested Context The Race to Industrialization (ex. Europe, Asia, Latin America), Imperialism and Neo-Imperialism, Nationalism and national identities (ex. Italian and German unification), Resistance to Colonialism.
• Examine the causes of and impact of industrialization and imperialism.
• The Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries: Suggested Context The World Wars, The Cold War, Anti-colonial movements (ex. India, China, Pan-Africanism, Latin America), Decolonization (ex. in Africa and Asia), Globalization.
• Examine movements of decolonization, liberation movements and resistance to imperialism.
• Examine the continuation and growth of nationalism and national identities.