HIST 173 - 20th Century History and Civilization
Credit Hours: 3
Billable Contact Hours: 3
Prerequisites: ENGL 090 and RDG 090 or qualifying scores on accepted placement tests
C6 General Education Social Systems Satisfier Y
MTA Social Sciences Satisfier Y
Global Studies Satisfier Course Y
Session Cycle: FL
This course provides the necessary background to understand today’s important global events, especially interactions between the industrial world and developing world cultures. This course examines developments in art, science, technology, economics, society, politics, and religion. Completing this course provides students with the ability to identify the most important individuals and ideologies of history since the 20th century and discuss the causes and effects of the era’s most important events. Students will have a better understanding of the cultural and ideological sources of nationalism, imperialism, militarism, globalization, as well as the causes and effects of international forms of violence. This course is a satisfier course for the Global Studies Degree Designation.
Notes: Humanities/Social Sciences Division
Theory Hours: 45
Learning Outcomes:
1. Understand the fundamental ideas and terminologies in 20th century world history, such as, but not limited to the major events, ideas, and material practices of cultures.
Applies to General Education Social Systems Competency Objectives A and B.
2. Understand the social, economic, and cultural systems of the 20th century world history and their complex interactions with one another, in addition to their influence on the modern world.
Applies to General Education Social Systems Competency Objectives A, B, C, and D.
3. Apply the range of skills, via historical methodology, it takes to decode the historical record because of its incomplete, complex, and contradictory nature with a particular emphasis on historical memory.
Applies to General Education Social Systems Competency Objectives A, B, C, and D.
4. Analyze critical issues in the contemporary world and their connections to 20th century world history.
Applies to General Education Social Systems Competency Objectives A, B, C, and D.
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