Introduction
Welcome to World History. This is the class where you get to learn why your life and society are the way they are. The class where you get to learn about other cultures and ideas, a class that will quite literally broaden all of your horizons. This course is a study of modern world history, including the foundation of world religions and beliefs, exploration, intellectual revolutions, violent revolutions, industrial revolution, nationalism/imperialism through the world wars, cold war, the quest of countries seeking independence and changes in current global patterns.
Relevance
Through the study of World History, a student will gain an understanding of continuity and change within and across eras of time. Through this historical development, students will gain a perspective of our place as Americans in world history and the increasingly importance of diverse global connections among world societies. A student will continue to develop their reading, writing, and critical thinking skills that will provide leverage and value in other academic disciplines and provide enduring skills for life beyond high school.
COURSE THEMES:
1. The impact of interaction among major societies (trade, systems of international exchange, war, and diplomacy).
2. The relationship of change and continuity across the world history periods covered in this course.
3. The impact of technology and demography on people and the environment (population growth and decline, disease, manufacturing, migrations, agriculture, weaponry).
4. Systems of social structure and gender structure (comparing major features within and among societies and assessing change).
5. Cultural and intellectual developments and interactions among and within societies.
6. Changes in functions and structures of states and in attitudes toward states and political identities (political culture), including the emergence of the nation-state (types of political organization).
Welcome to World History. This is the class where you get to learn why your life and society are the way they are. The class where you get to learn about other cultures and ideas, a class that will quite literally broaden all of your horizons. This course is a study of modern world history, including the foundation of world religions and beliefs, exploration, intellectual revolutions, violent revolutions, industrial revolution, nationalism/imperialism through the world wars, cold war, the quest of countries seeking independence and changes in current global patterns.
Relevance
Through the study of World History, a student will gain an understanding of continuity and change within and across eras of time. Through this historical development, students will gain a perspective of our place as Americans in world history and the increasingly importance of diverse global connections among world societies. A student will continue to develop their reading, writing, and critical thinking skills that will provide leverage and value in other academic disciplines and provide enduring skills for life beyond high school.
COURSE THEMES:
1. The impact of interaction among major societies (trade, systems of international exchange, war, and diplomacy).
2. The relationship of change and continuity across the world history periods covered in this course.
3. The impact of technology and demography on people and the environment (population growth and decline, disease, manufacturing, migrations, agriculture, weaponry).
4. Systems of social structure and gender structure (comparing major features within and among societies and assessing change).
5. Cultural and intellectual developments and interactions among and within societies.
6. Changes in functions and structures of states and in attitudes toward states and political identities (political culture), including the emergence of the nation-state (types of political organization).