Conversations:Building Modern WorldConversations:Building Modern World (COR 130)
Term: 2025-2026 Fall Semester
Description
This course explores world history from roughly 1450 to the present, emphasizing the cultural, economic, intellectual, and political developments that have shaped our world. Students will learn how concepts of citizenship, sovereignty, human rights, and modernity have changed over time to develop broad contextual knowledge for understanding the world in which we live. They will also practice historical literacy skills, including historical thinking, historical empathy, analysis of evidence, and writing. Several assigned readings will come from a common list of “transformative texts” to encourage students to ask
substantive questions of themselves and their worldviews.