Critical Reading and Writing: Exploring the Past, ca. 1800-present

Undergraduate

refines students’ ability to work with historical documents and to understand their significance in how we interpret the past. Students will explore the main contours of the history of the Western World from the Napoleonic period to the contemporary era. Students will learn about the range of historical experience, interaction and exchange between ethnicities and cultures, imperialism, war and revolution, national independence, human rights, gender and social life, environmental change, and globalization. All sections of this course follow Critical Reading and Writing Course Guidelines available at www.mun.ca/hss/crw .