School Year 2009 - 2010
Teacher:
If you would understand anything, observe its beginning and its development.
~ Aristotle
Course Purposes
- Broaden students’ knowledge of the world and the connections that exist between past and present.
- Analyze concepts that are addressed most fully in a chronological format, such as class struggle, parallel development, and dead labor.
- Apply a variety of map reading skills and develop an appreciation for the role of economic and technological forces on people’s lives.
- Evaluate the perspective that social forces are the engine of history, and powerful individuals are figureheads for social movements.
- Understand how production and consumption influence culture today. (Ex: music that is consumed receives greater exposure, which influences culture)
- Understand the accelerated negative impact human activity is having on the environment.
- Understand how history impacts global politics and affects people’s lives (trade embargoes, ethnic tension and rivalry, globalization)
-Apply writing skills in a varitey of contexts.
-Apply strategies for reading comprehension.
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