Download Local to Global Perspective Empire, Colonialism

Human prehistory/history is marked by the impacts of
migrations. Whether compelled or drawn beyond
their places of origin, migrants have challenged
borders through conquest, colonialism, postcolonialism, exploitation, assimilation, and
adaptation. As laborers, kin, refugees, and
conquerors, they have spread technologies, ideologies,
philosophies, and aesthetics.
Themes in General Education are
Designed to:
 assist students in making systematic and deliberate
connections between the ways various disciplinary
perspectives address the same topic.
 provide a framework for faculty in different
departments to collaborate on research projects and
share innovative teaching strategies.
 encourage students to explore areas of specific interest
at a deeper level .
ENG 2030 – World Literature 3 hours
Literary Studies Designation
 World literature in translation from its
beginnings to the seventeenth century.
FCS – Family Development: Origins and
Movement
3 hours
 A study, using the multicultural life span approach, of factors affecting
human and family development. Theories, patterns, structures and
functions of diverse family groupings and interactions and
interrelationships in family processes and development will be considered
in relation to current research. Students will research their individual
family origins and movement over time to understand the current change
in ethnic diversity. Students will also study and analyze critical family issues
and compare these issues within different cultures in the United States and
around the world. Lecture three hours.
GLS 2000 – Contemporary Global Issues
3 hours
 This course examines a selection of global issues from a variety
of perspectives and disciplines. Students will be exposed to
the complexities of these issues, which are the result of the
confluence of historical, geographical, economic, cultural, and
political factors. Emphasis will be placed on how different
societies view global issues, as well as how different
perspectives can alter one’s understanding of them.
HIS 1600 – Migration in World History
3 hours
Historical Studies Designation
 This course examines the role of human migration in world history. Starting
with “peopling the planet” and using topics such as language diversity,
diaspora, colonization and immigration, students will explore the dispersal
of people, plants, animals, diseases, as well as cultural and technological
diffusion. The emphasis is on evaluation of primary and secondary sources,
development of analytical skills, and application of methods used in
comparative histories clustered around these themes. Students have a
semester long project of preparing their own family history that entails
using data bases, oral interviews, and narrative writing that puts their own
“local” history into the “global” context of the main events of the past
century. NOTE: HIS 1600 DOES NOT COUNT TOWARD THE REQUIREMENTS
FOR A HISTORY MAJOR OR MINOR.