- Global History and Culture 2

Catalog description

This course begins with the Early Modern Period in 1500 when the voyages of discovery linked world trade routes and transformed human encounters and civilizations. Students explore Greek and Roman humanism and rationalism as revived in Renaissance Europe, and as foundational for the Scientific Revolution. Students then move to 17th and 18th century movements of the Age of Reason and Enlightenment, spawning the creativity of the Industrial Revolution and a capitalist economic system which provided the West with political, economic, and military might to lay the foundation for modern imperialism, racism, and global warfare. The course concludes with the theme of human use and abuse of planet earth and speculations on the future of humanity.