HSTCMP 407 A: The Making of the Modern World: World History Since 1500

Focus on how world historians approach the past, particularly how they conceptualize, research and teach modern world history. Emphasis on understanding and (de)constructing historical narratives about modern world and on examining intellectual assumptions and theoretical and methodological frameworks of world history. Provides basic understanding of scope and methods of modern world history, scholarly and pedagogical concerns and interests.