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  Course: HIS 112
  Title:The World: 1500-Present: HI1
  Long Title:The World: 1500-Present: GT-HI1
  Course Description:Explores trends within events, peoples, groups, ideas, and institutions in World History since 1500 as well as on common cultural trends. This course focuses on developing, practicing, and strengthening skills historians use while constructing knowledge and studying a diverse set of narratives through the perspectives such as gender, class, religion, and ethnicity. This is a statewide Guaranteed Transfer course in the GT-HI1 category.
  Min Credit:3
  Max Credit:

  Origin Notes: CCA
  General Notes:revised competencies entered 11/20/10 LK
  Status Notes: revised description entered 2/7/11 LK
  General Notes:Update GT/Desc/CLOs/TO effective 202110

 REQUIRED COURSE LEARNING OUTCOMES:
 1.  Reference secondary and tertiary sources to construct knowledge and to develop context.
 2.  De-construct complex and multiple sources of information into basic historical concepts.
 3.  Recognize the impact of continuity and change of historical perspective in context of time and space World History from 1500 to present.
 4.  Develop narrative structures and arguments based on evidence.
 5.  Compare and contrast how peoples, groups, cultures, and institutions change over time in World History from 1500 to present
 6.  Analyze events in World History from 1500 to present in historical context to illustrate how social, cultural, gender, race, religion, nationality, and other identities affect historical perspectives.
 7.  Use diverse resources for historical research, including libraries, databases, bibliographies, and archives.
 8.  Identify perspectives in historical interpretation using secondary sources.
 9.  Identify types of primary sources, their perspective, and purpose of their author.
 10. Create substantive writing samples that employ critical analysis of primary and secondary sources with appropriate citations.
 11. Construct knowledge by developing historical narratives from primary.


 REQUIRED TOPICAL OUTLINE:
 I.     The age of European expansion
 II.    Absolutism and constitutionalism in Europe
         A.  France
         B.  England
 III.   Europe in change
         A.  Scientific revolution
         B.  Agriculture
         C.  Religion
         D.  Popular culture
 IV.     Africa
         A.  Geography
         B.  Slave trade
 V.     The Middle East and India
         A.  The Ottoman State
         B.  The Persian State
         C.  British domination in India
 VI.    China and Japan
         A.  China from the Ming Dynasty to the Manchu Dynasty
         B.  The Meiji Restoration in Japan
 VII.   Revolutions in Western politics
 VIII.  Industrial Revolution in Europe
 IX.    Ideologies and upheavals.
 X.     Imperialism
 XI.    Nation building in the Western Hemisphere
 XII.   World War I
 XIII.  Nationalism in Asia
 XIV.   Anxiety in the West
 XV.    Dictatorship and the Second World War
 XVI.   Recovery and crisis in Europe
 XVII.  Asia and Africa in the contemporary world
 XVIII. Changing lives of people in the developing world
 XIX.   One small planet: globalization



 Course Offered At:

  Arapahoe Community College ACC
  Community College of Aurora CCA
  Colorado Community College Sys CCCS
  Community College of Denver CCD
  Colorado Northwestern CC CNCC
  Front Range Community College FRCC
  Lamar Community College LCC
  Morgan Community College MCC
  Northeastern Junior College NJC
  Otero College OJC
  Pueblo Community College PCC
  Pikes Peak State College PPCC
  Red Rocks Community College RRCC
  Trinidad State College TSJC
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