Course overview
This course examines how and why modern European empires emerged, how they changed over time across multiple contexts, and why they ultimately disintegrated. Under the rubric of “global encounters”, it aims to furnish students with an overview of the changing intercultural dynamics that have shaped world history since the early modern period, with an emphasis on the enduring legacies into the present. It also provides a solid contextual foundation for subsequent courses at levels 2 and 3, by way of an overview of major developments in world history over the past 500 years.
- Early Modern Encounters
- Revolutionary Encounters
- Enduring Encounters
Course learning outcomes
- Demonstrate historical knowledge ranging over time, space and cultures, that includes understanding change and continuity over time.
- Use critical-thinking and problem-solving skills to identify, access and analyse a variety of primary, secondary, textual and visual sources.
- Develop written and verbal communication and collaboration skills and construct an evidenced based argument.
- Relate developments and concepts from the history of Empires to an ethical understanding of social, cultural and political circumstances in the contemporary and intercultural world.