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HIST 435 Global History Units: 3.00
Advanced introduction to the fields of Global, World, and Transnational History. The origins, foundational debates, and major contributions of the field. Study how commodities, people, intellectual trends, and the environment can serve as methodological avenues in uncovering the global shape of our interconnected past.
Learning Hours: 144 (36 Seminar, 108 Private Study)
Requirements: Prerequisite Registration in a HIST Specialization, Major, or Joint Honours Plan and a minimum grade of C+ in 6.0 units from HIST 300-330.
Course Equivalencies: HIST 435, HIST 435B
Offering Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Science
Course Learning Outcomes:
- Demonstrate knowledge of the inter-related yet distinct genealogies of global and world history. Develop a critical understanding of global history as a field and assess its relationship with the wider discipline of history.
- Assess the disciplinary implications of global history as a critique of units of analysis, the concept of agency, and the idea of progress as an organizing scheme.
- Critically examine the role of spatial and temporal frames of historical analysis and explore alternative framings of historical analysis.
- Appreciate the decolonizing and emancipatory ethics of global history and develop historical arguments that reflect such ethical and epistemological positions.
- Critically engage with sources, modes, and methods of historical analysis that have remained outside the bounds of academic historiography.
- Practice presenting evidence-based persuasive historical arguments both orally in class and in written forms.