Twentieth-Century History (Discovery)

Twentieth-century History introduces students to the history of the twentieth century in a global, multidimensional way. Integrating a wide breadth of geographic, temporal, and thematic approaches, this discovery will introduce students to major events that critically shaped the century, including World War One, World War Two, the Cold War, the rise of mechanic production, labor movements, feminism, colonialism and post-colonialism, and globalization from the perspective of Europe, Latin America, East Asia, the Middle East, North America, and Africa. Students will similarly learn to draw global and comparative causal connections across the globe between and among local experiences with global events.