Global Civilization ((3 Credits))

Catalog description

This course is intended to provide students with an overview of the history, diversity and impact of human habitation across the entire globe. It shares with Karl Jaspers the sense that we live in a period that "requires the whole history of mankind to furnish us with the standards by which to measure the meaning of what is happening." Three questions are central to the courses: 1) why are some countries richer than others; 2) what difference do beliefs and ideas (as opposed to material circumstances) make to human history; and 3) what impact have these differences had on the lives of the world's peoples?