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Mar 19, 2026
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Undergraduate Catalog 2026-2027
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HIS 101 World History I Credits: (3)
World History I is the first in a two-course sequence tracing the rise of world civilizations. It will examine the social, political, intellectual, and economic development of civilizations in Eurasia, Africa, and the Americas from the beginning until 1550CE. Main themes are the Neolithic revolution, urbanization, early empires, conflicts, and interconnections through trade, culture, and religions. More broadly the course will expose students to the use of primary and secondary sources and to the identification of change over time, causality, and contingency in historical knowledge.
SUNY Gen Ed Area(s): Humanities, Social Sciences, World History & Global Awareness
Designation(s): Liberal Arts
Learning Outcomes
- Demonstrate the ability to apply classifications, principles, generalizations, theories, models, and/or structures pertinent to social scientific efforts to organize conceptual knowledge in world history.
- Recognize ways in which social, political, and economic issues affect daily lives across time and space before 1550.
- Demonstrate understanding of knowledge of a range of facts, terminology, events, and/or methods that social scientists in history must possess in order to investigate, analyze, or give a history of human, group, or societal behavior.
- Demonstrate the distinctive features of the word history, society, institutions, economy, and culture as it relates to Asia, Africa, and the Americas before 1550.
- Recognize and analyze nuance and complexity of meaning in the Humanities through critical reflections on primary historical texts, art, artifacts and/or film.
- Demonstrate an understanding of the Humanities discipline of history including concepts, methods, primary sources, and knowledge.
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