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Mar 19, 2026
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Undergraduate Catalog 2026-2027
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HIS 102 World History II Credits: (3)
World History II is the second in a two-course sequence tracing the rise of world civilizations. It will examine the modern social, political, intellectual, and economic development of civilizations in Eurasia, Africa, and the Americas from approximately 1550CE to the present. Main themes include interdependency between the old and the new world, splendor, trade, and power in China, India, the Ottoman Empire, and Africa, the formation of modern citizenship in a global perspective, the great divergence, imperialism and decolonization, and the contemporary integrated world. 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 since 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 since 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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