World History IV: Globalization 1800 to the Present

This course focuses on crucial developments in, and controversies about, the study of world history from 1800 to the present.

Topics include the Industrial Revolution, Latin American independence, European colonization of Africa, independence movements in Africa and India, the end of Imperial China and the rise of the communist regime, the Meiji restoration and the Japanese recovery, the origins of World Wars I and II, the Russian revolutions, fascism, the cold war, and the computer revolution.

This course places these events in their global economic and cultural contexts.