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H152 The Modern World

3 credit(s)
This course introduces students to modernity, beginning around 1500, and its variegated impacts on their world. It focuses on the growing interactions between varying political, economic, social, and cultural traditions that would later be termed “globalization.” It includes discussion of aspects of that process, including scientific advancement, colonization, biological exchange, environmental degradation, religious syncretism and fundamentalism, industrialization and the spread of technology, world war, genocide, population manipulation, and the rise of modern ideologies and their attendant economic systems.


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