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STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK
COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY
CANTON, NEW YORK
COURSE OUTLINE
HIST 217 - World History, From 1300 to the Present
Prepared By: Raymond G. Krisciunas
SCHOOL OF BUSINESS AND LIBERAL ARTS
SOCIAL SCIENCES DEPARTMENT
May 2015
HIST 217 - World History, From 1300 to the Present
A. TITLE: World History, From 1300 to the Present
B. COURSE NUMBER: HIST 217
C. CREDIT HOURS: 3
D. WRITING INTENSIVE COURSE (OPTIONAL):
E. COURSE LENGTH: 15 weeks
F. SEMESTER(S) OFFERED: Fall and/or Spring
G. HOURS OF LECTURE, LABORATORY, RECITATION, TUTORIAL, ACTIVITY:
3 lecture hours per week.
H. CATALOGUE DESCRIPTION:
Using a global perspective this course will consider how different peoples and civilizations interacted, or
failed to, in the last 700 years. Some of the themes that will be emphasized and examined are the roles
that conquest, trade, religion, diffusion of ideas and technology played in bringing different parts of the
world together.
I. PRE-REQUISITES/CO-COURSES: None
J.
GOALS (STUDENT LEARNING OUTCOMES):
By the end of this course, the student will be able to:
Course Objective
a. Describe the important themes of World history
b. Describe the distinctive features of the history,
institutions, economy, society, culture, etc. of one
non-western civilization.
c. Examine how merchants, merchant groups,
soldiers, missionaries, explorers, linked together
widely separate parts of the world.
d. Explain and assess the process modernization
within the global context.
e. Evaluate the factors and processes contributing
to globalization.
Institutional SLO
1. Communication
2. Crit. Thinking
1. Communication
2. Crit. Thinking
2. Crit. Thinking
2. Crit. Thinking
2. Crit. Thinking
K. TEXTS: To be determined by the instructor.
L. REFERENCES:
Carsten, F.L., The Rise of Fascism. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1980)
Curtin, Philip D. Cross-Cultural Trade in World History.
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984)
Curtin, Philip D. The Rise and Fall of the Plantation Complex, Essays in Atlantic History. (Cambridge
and New York, Cambridge University Press 1990)
Esler, Anthony. The Human Venture: A World History from Prehistory to the Present. (New Jersey:
Prentice Hall, 1994)
Fitzpatric, Sheila. The Russian Revolution. (Oxford, Eng.: Oxford University Press, 1994)
Hobsbawn, Eric. The Age of Revolution 1789-1848 and The Age of Reform, 1848-1875 (New York:
New American Library 1962, 1975.
Hodgson, Marshall G.S. Rethinking World History. Essays on Europe, Islam, and World History,
Edited with an introduction and conclusion, by Edmund Burke III (Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 1993)
Hournani, Albert. A History of the Arab Peoples. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1991)
Hsii, Immanuel. The Rise of Modern China. (Oxford, Eng.: Oxford University Press, 1995)
Inalcik, Halil. The Ottoman Empire. (New York: Orpheus Publishing, 1989)
Inikori, Joseph E., and Stanley Engerman, eds. The Atlantic Slave Trade: Effects on Economies,
Societies, and Peoples in Africa, The Americas, and Europe. (Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press,
1992)
Jackson, Peter. The Cambridge History of Iran, Vol. VI. (Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge University
Press, 1986)
Keegan, John. A History of Warfare. (New York: Knopf, 1993)
McNeill, William, The Rise of the West: A History of Human Community (Chicago: The University of
Chicago Press, 1963)
Mintz, Sidney W. Sweetness and Power. The Place of Sugar in Modern History.
(New York: Penguin, 1985)
Mote, F.W. and D. Twitchett, eds. The Cambridge History of China. Vol. VII: The Ming Dynasty,
1368-1644, Part I. (Cambridge, Eng,: Cambridge University Press, 1988.)
Nash, Gary B. Red. White. and Black - The Peoples of Early America (Englewood Cliffs: Prentice
Hall, 1982)
Parker, G. The Military Revolution. Military Innovation and the Rise of the West, 1500-1800
(Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge University Press, 1988)
Pyle, Kenneth. The Making of Modern Japan. (Lexington, Mass.: D.C. Heath, 1966)
Riasanovsky, Nicholas. A History of Russia. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1993)
Richards, John. The New Cambridge History of India: The Mughal Empire. (New York: Cambridge
University Press, 1993)
Rout, Leslie B. The African Experience in Spanish America. 1502 to the Present. (Cambridge. Eng.:
Cambridge University Press, 1976)
Said, Edward. Orientalism (New York: Pantheon, 1978)
Scammell, G.V. The First Imperial Ages: European Overseas Expansion, c. 1400-1715. (London:
Unwin Hyman, 1989)
Stearns, Peter N. The Industrial Revolution in World History. (Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press,
1993)
Stein, Stanley and Barbara. The Colonial Heritage in Latin America (New York: Oxford University
Press, 1970)
Thornton, John. Africa and Africans in the Making of the Atlantic World, 1400-1680. (New York:
Cambridge University Press, 1992)
Walker, Martin. The Cold War. (New York: Henry Holt, 1993)
Wallerstein, Immanuel. The Modern World System, 2 vols. (New York: Academic Press, 1974, 1977)
Wolf, Eric R. Europe and the People without History. (Berkeley, University of California Press, 1982)
Dunn, Ross E. The Adventures of Ibn Battuta,, A Muslim Traveler of the 14th Century. (Berkeley and
Los Angeles: The University of California Press, 1989)
Online source:
http://www.daphne.polomar.edu/muentos
http://www.ee.bilkent.edu.tr/
history/topkapi.html
http://metalab.unc.edu/docsouth/narratives.html
http://www.chinavista.com/beijing/gugong/!start.html
http://cedar.evansville.edu/ wc203/web/imperial.html
M. EQUIPMENT: Overhead, DVD VCR, slide projector, power-point (computer, projector)
N. GRADING METHOD: A-F
O. MEASUREMENT CRITERIA/METHODS: Three examinations, (two hourly and comprehensive final),
class discussion, group research projects, oral presentations.
P. TOPICAL OUTLINE: See attachment.
Q. LABORATORY OUTLINE:
TOPICAL OUTLINE
HIST 217 - WORLD HISTORY FROM 1300 TO THE PRESENT
TOPICS
I. World Civilizations and Cross Cultural Interaction to 1500 C.E.
A. Peoples and Civilizations of the Americas
B. Tropical Africa
C. Western Eurasia, The Fall and Rise of Islam
D. Eastern Eurasia, Mongal Dominion and the Early Ming Empire
E. Crisis and Recovery of the Latin West
II. The Globe Encompassed, 1300 - 1750 C.E.
A.
B.
C.
D.
The Transformation of Europe
Colonial Societies in the Americas: Their Diversity.
The Atlantic System and Africa
Asia in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries.
III. The Age of Revolution, Industry and Empire, 1750 to 1914.
A.
B.
C.
D.
E.
Political and Economic Reordering of the Atlantic World
Continuity and Change in Eurasia
Nation Building in Europe, the Americas, and Japan
The New Imperialism, Discontent with Imperialism.
Progress and Anxiety in the Era of Cultural Modernism
IV. Global Conflict and Change
A. World War I and the Versailles Peace 1914-1919
B. The Age of Anxiety and the Challenge to the Liberal Order
C. World War II and Holocausts
D. The Cold War and Decolonizations, 1945-1975
E. Globalization