Course: Lectures by Visiting Professors 1

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Course title Lectures by Visiting Professors 1
Course code KHI/LVP1
Organizational form of instruction Lecture + Seminary
Level of course Bachelor
Year of study not specified
Semester Winter and summer
Number of ECTS credits 5
Language of instruction English
Status of course Compulsory-optional
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
  • Agnew Hugh, prof.
  • Peřinová Markéta
Course content
Global History since 1500, prof. Hugh Agnew Outline of Themes and Readings: - Impact of the Mongols and early globalization (primary sources on the Mongol empire) - Other long-distance contacts (primary sources on Mansa Musa and Zheng He) - European-Native American Interactions (Spanish and Native American sources on the conquest of the Aztec empire) - Ecological exchange and new products (primary sources on chocolate and the potato) - Political Trends in Eurasia (primary sources on the closing of Japan, on the Ottoman Empire, Mughal Emperor Akbar, and Zheng Zhilong) - Africa and the Slave Trade (primary sources on the trade in enslaved Africans from a Dutch trader, and on the Maroons of Jamaica by a British planter) - Enlightenment Thought (primary sources by Beccaria and Montesquieu) - Asian Reactions to the West (Abu Taleb Khan and Emperor Qianlong) - Impact of Industrialization (British Parliamentary reports on industry conditions, Andrew Ure's defense of the factory system) - European Imperialism (Documents on the Opium War, Scramble for Africa, Kipling's "White Man's Burden" and Edward Morel's response, "The Black Man's Burden") - Nationalism (Mommsen and Fustel de Coulanges on Alsace-Lorraine) - World War I (Poetry from the Trenches, Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front) - Fascism (Mussolini, Juan Peron) - World War II and the Holocaust (Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact, excerpts from Elie Wiesel, Night) - Decolonization (Gandhi, Hind Swaraj; Charter of OAU, Nelson Mandela)

Learning activities and teaching methods
Lecture, Dialogic Lecture (Discussion, Dialog, Brainstorming)
Learning outcomes
This course surveys the basic contours of global history since approximately 1500, while at the same time exploring the ways in which historians approach the study of the past and how that can inform our understanding of the present. It traces the development of the modern global order over the past five hundred years, examining the processes and patterns of exchange, conflict, and interaction, which have shaped our present-day world. The course will be structured thematically, but maintain a roughly chronological progression, and it will stress an approach to global history that considers the continuities and discontinuities of change and connection. This course will pursue two fundamental and closely related goals at the same time. It aims to increase your historical knowledge of human societies in the world and their interactions, and it aims to increase your knowledge and skills in the kind of work historians do when they "do history"analyzing textual evidence and writing expository prose, presenting and defending an interpretation of that evidence.

Prerequisites
unspecified

Assessment methods and criteria
unspecified
The course will use the following methods of instruction: - Lecture and Discussion: while primarily a lecture course, we will regularly break from lecture format to discuss primary source readings related to the themes of the week. - Readings: there will be two types of readings for the class: I will select an open-source textbook (available free on the internet) that students can use for continuity and orientation along with the lectures, and I will distribute a selection of primary source documents linked to the themes of a given week which we will discuss and analyze in class. - Writing assignments: This course will have two main writing assignments. One is to construct a timeline on one of the themes of the course using the Timeline JS tool developed by the Knight School of Journalism at Northwestern University. The other assignment is to write a paper analyzing a selected primary source (or sources) the way a historian would approach them.
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Faculty: Faculty of Education Study plan (Version): History with Emphasis of Education Aspects (BB24) Category: Pedagogy, teacher training and social care - Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: -
Faculty: Faculty of Education Study plan (Version): Teaching History for Secondary Schools and Higher Primary Schools (NA22) Category: Pedagogy, teacher training and social care - Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: -
Faculty: Faculty of Education Study plan (Version): Teaching History for Secondary Schools and Higher Primary Schools (NA24) Category: Pedagogy, teacher training and social care - Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: -
Faculty: Faculty of Education Study plan (Version): History with Emphasis of Education Aspects (BB21) Category: Pedagogy, teacher training and social care - Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: -
Faculty: Faculty of Education Study plan (Version): History with Emphasis of Education Aspects (BB23) Category: Pedagogy, teacher training and social care - Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: -
Faculty: Faculty of Arts Study plan (Version): Histrory (2019) Category: History courses - Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: -
Faculty: Faculty of Arts Study plan (Version): Euroculture (2023_N24) Category: Philosophy, theology - Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: -
Faculty: Faculty of Arts Study plan (Version): Euroculture (2023_S24) Category: Philosophy, theology - Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: -
Faculty: Faculty of Arts Study plan (Version): Archive Studies (2019) Category: History courses - Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: -
Faculty: Faculty of Arts Study plan (Version): History (2019) Category: History courses - Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: -
Faculty: Faculty of Arts Study plan (Version): History (2019) Category: History courses - Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: -
Faculty: Faculty of Arts Study plan (Version): Euroculture (2023) Category: Philosophy, theology - Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: -
Faculty: Faculty of Education Study plan (Version): History with Emphasis of Education Aspects (BB22) Category: Pedagogy, teacher training and social care - Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: -
Faculty: Faculty of Arts Study plan (Version): Euroculture (2019) Category: Philosophy, theology - Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: -
Faculty: Faculty of Education Study plan (Version): History with Emphasis of Education Aspects (BB19) Category: Pedagogy, teacher training and social care - Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: -
Faculty: Faculty of Education Study plan (Version): Teaching History for Secondary Schools and Higher Primary Schools (NA23) Category: Pedagogy, teacher training and social care - Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: -
Faculty: Faculty of Education Study plan (Version): Teaching History for Secondary Schools and Higher Primary Schools (NA22) Category: Pedagogy, teacher training and social care - Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: -
Faculty: Faculty of Education Study plan (Version): Teaching History for Secondary Schools and Higher Primary Schools (NA24) Category: Pedagogy, teacher training and social care - Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: -
Faculty: Faculty of Arts Study plan (Version): History (2019) Category: History courses - Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: -
Faculty: Faculty of Education Study plan (Version): History with Emphasis of Education Aspects (BB19) Category: Pedagogy, teacher training and social care - Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: -
Faculty: Faculty of Education Study plan (Version): History with Emphasis of Education Aspects (BB24) Category: Pedagogy, teacher training and social care - Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: -
Faculty: Faculty of Arts Study plan (Version): History (2019) Category: History courses - Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: -
Faculty: Faculty of Arts Study plan (Version): History (2019) Category: History courses - Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: -
Faculty: Faculty of Education Study plan (Version): History with Emphasis of Education Aspects (BB20) Category: Pedagogy, teacher training and social care - Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: -
Faculty: Faculty of Education Study plan (Version): Teaching History for Secondary Schools and Higher Primary Schools (NA23) Category: Pedagogy, teacher training and social care - Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: -
Faculty: Faculty of Education Study plan (Version): History with Emphasis of Education Aspects (BB20) Category: Pedagogy, teacher training and social care - Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: -
Faculty: Faculty of Education Study plan (Version): History with Emphasis of Education Aspects (BB21) Category: Pedagogy, teacher training and social care - Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: -