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.
Availability
Class details
Adelaide City Campus East
Class number 27203
Section TU01
Size 24
Available 24
Class number 27202
Section TU02
Size 22
Available 22
Class number 27201
Section TU03
Size 24
Available 24
Class number 27200
Section TU04
Size 24
Available 19
Class number 23668
Section TU05
Size 24
Available 24
Class number 27209
Section WS01
Size 150
Available 145
Magill
Class number 27207
Section TU01
Size 24
Available 24
Class number 27206
Section TU02
Size 24
Available 24
Class number 27205
Section TU03
Size 24
Available 24
Online
Class number 20023
Section 01OL
Size 30
Available 27
Class details
Adelaide City Campus East
Class number 59021
Section TU01
Size 30
Available 29
Class number 59020
Section TU02
Size 30
Available 29
Class number 59019
Section TU03
Size 30
Available 30
Class number 59018
Section WS01
Size 90
Available 88
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