Course Catalog

HIS1029E World History II (3 credits) 9617

COURSE DESCRIPTION
A study of modern civilization from 1650 to present, including industrial and political revolutions; democracy; development of modern thought, art and literature; growth of the Americas; European and American contacts with the Orient; the World Wars and their aftermath. Special attention is given to the interplay of culture, the rise of new social and political ideas, and the influence of modern science.

LEARNING RESULTS
The learner will be able to:
• Develop an understanding of the role European culture played in shaping human history.
• Identify and describe societies that are traditional, modern, and postmodern.
• Identify three key events that shaped world civilizations since 1650.
• Summarize the development of democracy in world cultures.
• Explain how industrialization affected world cultures.
• Analyze how modernization, westernization and Americanization changed world cultures in the twentieth century.

REQUIRED TEXTS AND MATERIALS
• Stearns, P. etal. World Civilizations: The Global Experience 5th edition Volume II: 1450 to the present (Addison Wesley, 2007). ISBN: 0-321-40981-7.
• Shelley, M. Frankenstein: (ISBN: 0486282112) Dover Publications.
• Pa Chin Family: (ISBN: 0881333735) Waveland Press 8/1988.
• Ishiguro, Kazuo, An Artist of the Floating World (New York: Vintage Books, 1989)

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INTEGRATION OF FAITH AND LEARNING
The integration of faith and learning permeates the course through interaction with individual learning in the form of comments, reflections and insights in the assignments. Examining the history of world cultures learners are confronted by several questions: 1) how similar and how different are world religions; 2) what role has religion played in shaping human social experiments; 3) whether there are moments of divine intervention in human affairs; 4) and whether God covenants with nations or individuals.

LEARNING DOCUMENTATION
To determine if the course learning results have been attained, students document their learning by submitting the following items:
• Paper on European impact on global civilizations
• Paper comparing Non-Western and Western cultures
• Paper on the impact of the Enlightenment and Scientific Revolution on European Society
• Paper on how global societies were altered by their encounters with Europeans
• Paper on industrialization in Africa and Asia
• Paper on Christian idealism in shaping global society
• Paper on the challenge of that modernism presented to traditional cultures
• Paper on the westernization and Americanization of Asia
• Paper examining the Postmodern world
There are 14 assignments and 0 examinations for this course.

LEARNING EVALUATION

Assignment #1 50
Assignment #2 25
Assignment #3 50
Assignment #4 25
Assignment #5 50
Assignment #6 25
Assignment #7 50
Assignment #8 25
Assignment #9 50
Assignment #10 50
Assignment #11 50
Assignment #12 25
Assignment #13 50
Assignment #14 75
Total Points 600