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Students study American history in the context of world history, from the Age of Enlightenment to the present. The course emphasizes the patterns of history, the people who made history, and children's historical literature.
Course Description
World History begins in the province of archaeology, covering ancient civilizations,
moving through the Greeks, the Romans, the Middle Ages, the Renaissance and into
the age of exploration and the discoveries relating to the New World. Students study
the phenomenon of industrialization and its attendant issues, the French Revolution,
the global issue of slavery. Moving into the modern age, students learn about key
inventions, immigration patterns and the effects of immigration on societies. Students
study the following modern eras: WWI, the 1920's, WWII ( the Holocaust and the
atomic bomb), the Cold War, the 1960's along with accompanying social issues, the
1980's, and the Gulf War. Students make connections between a region's geography
and its politics on a global scale.
Learning Objectives
- Students develop chronological and spatial thinking skills.
- Students use a variety of maps and documents to interpret human movement,
including major patterns of domestic and international migration, changing
environmental preferences and settlement patterns, the frictions that develop
between population groups, and the diffusion of ideas, technological innovations,
and goods.
- Students relate current events to the physical and human characteristics of places
and regions.
- Students construct and test hypotheses; collect, evaluate, and employ information
from multiple primary and secondary sources; and apply it in oral and written
presentations.
- Students show the connections, causal and otherwise, between particular
historical events and larger social, economic, and political trends and
developments.
- Students recognize the complexity of historical causes and effects, including the
limitations on determining cause and effect.
- Students interpret past events and issues within the context in which an event
unfolded rather than solely in terms of present-day norms and values.
- Students understand the meaning, implication, and impact of historical events
and recognize that events could have taken other directions.
- Students analyze human modifications of landscapes and examine the resulting
environmental policy issues.
