Explorers and Encounters.

Catalog description

This course is about early modern explorers and the lands and peoples they encountered. The course reflects on explorations and encounters by European explorers as they marveled and interpreted the peoples and lands they met. The class encompasses the Atlantic, Indian Ocean, and the Pacific and changes over time from the late 15th through the 18th centuries, as attitudes changed and perceptions of the other modified. Prerequisite: any general education history survey or consent of instructor. NW.