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HIST 501 Explorations in World History I
3 Credits
This is the first of a sequence of two term-courses that
are required of all MA students in History. It is a general
survey course that explores specific themes and periods
from the first human communities to c. 1500, and
problematizes them in comparative, theory-intensive
ways. It runs parallel to the SPS 101 (Humanity and
Society I) freshman course, which serves as the teaching
practicum of HIST 501 for SU graduate students in
History who also serve as SPS 101 section instructors. Both
SPS 101 and HIST 501 embody a discrete, step-function
view of historical development, examining sets of
institutional-cultural "solutions" situated along each
major material-technical threshold, without
however proceeding in a continuous narrative from one such
locus to another. Topics dealt with in the first semester
include : Modernity's subsumptions and transformations
of pre-modernities; comparing contemporary
with prehistoric hunters and gatherers; nomadic
pastoralism, mounted archers, steppe empires; the
economics of peasant production; the role of
movement and conquest in history; "dark ages" and state
formation; precocious maritime civilizations
in Antiquity; tributary states and societies; the function
and varieties of fief distribution; types of urban
space and culture; the world on the eve of the
"European miracle"; the Italian Renaissance
as the dawn of early modernity.
Last Offered Terms
Course Name
SU Credit
Fall 2023-2024
Explorations in World History I
3
Fall 2022-2023
Explorations in World History I
3
Fall 2021-2022
Explorations in World History I
3
Fall 2020-2021
Explorations in World History I
3
Fall 2019-2020
Explorations in World History I
3
Fall 2018-2019
Explorations in World History I
3
Fall 2017-2018
Explorations in World History I
3
Fall 2016-2017
Explorations in World History I
3
Fall 2015-2016
Explorations in World History I
3
Fall 2014-2015
Explorations in World History I
3
Fall 2013-2014
Explorations in World History I
3
Fall 2012-2013
Explorations in World History I
3
Fall 2011-2012
Explorations in World History I
3
Fall 2010-2011
Explorations in World History I
3
Fall 2009-2010
Explorations in World History I
3
Fall 2008-2009
Explorations in World History I
3
Fall 2007-2008
Explorations in World History I
3
Fall 2006-2007
Explorations in World History I
3
Fall 2005-2006
Explorations in World History I
3
Fall 2004-2005
Explorations in World History I
3
Fall 2003-2004
History of Europe and the West I
3
Fall 2002-2003
History of Europe and the West I
3
Fall 2001-2002
History of Europe and the West I
3
Fall 2000-2001
History of Europe & the West I
3
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Corequisite: __
ECTS Credit: 10 ECTS (10 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year)
General Requirements:
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| This is the first of a sequence of two term-courses that are required of all MA students in History. It is a general survey course that explores specific themes and periods from the first human communities to c. 1500, and problematizes them in comparative, theory-intensive ways. It runs parallel to the SPS 101 (Humanity and Society I) freshman course, which serves as the teaching practicum of HIST 501 for SU graduate students in History who also serve as SPS 101 section instructors. Both SPS 101 and HIST 501 embody a discrete, step-function view of historical development, examining sets of institutional-cultural "solutions" situated along each major material-technical threshold, without however proceeding in a continuous narrative from one such locus to another. Topics dealt with in the first semester include : Modernity's subsumptions and transformations of pre-modernities; comparing contemporary with prehistoric hunters and gatherers; nomadic pastoralism, mounted archers, steppe empires; the economics of peasant production; the role of movement and conquest in history; "dark ages" and state formation; precocious maritime civilizations in Antiquity; tributary states and societies; the function and varieties of fief distribution; types of urban space and culture; the world on the eve of the "European miracle"; the Italian Renaissance as the dawn of early modernity. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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