Details for The West and the Making of the Globalised World
HUM101 is a general introductory course to the Modern History sub-discipline, aiming to provide an overview of major trends and interpretative approaches to the rise of ‘modernity’ from the 17th through to the 20th centuries.
Quick Info
- Currently offered by Alphacrucis: Yes
- Course code: HUM101
- Credit points: 10
- Subject coordinator: Mark Hutchinson
Prerequisites
The following courses are prerequisites or co-requisites:
- HIS101 or at least 40 credit points
Awards offering The West and the Making of the Globalised World
This unit is offered as a part of the following awards:
- Bachelor of Arts
- Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Applied Social Science
- Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Business
- Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Education (Secondary)
- Bachelor of Business
- Bachelor of Business and Bachelor of Ministry
- Bachelor of Business and Bachelor of Theology
- Bachelor of Ministry
- Bachelor of Theology
- Diploma of Arts
- Diploma of Business
- Diploma of Business and Diploma of Entrepreneurship
- Diploma of Business and Diploma of Leadership
- Diploma of Business and Diploma of Ministry
- Diploma of Chaplaincy and Diploma of Leadership
- Diploma of Entrepreneurship
- Diploma of Entrepreneurship and Diploma of Leadership
- Diploma of Entrepreneurship and Diploma of Ministry
- Undergraduate Certificate in Arts
Unit Content
Curriculum Objective
HUM101 is a general introductory course to the Modern History sub-discipline, aiming to provide an overview of major trends and interpretative approaches to the rise of ‘modernity’ from the 17th through to the 20th centuries.
Outcomes
- Identify the role of the historian in selecting sources used to inform historical thinking and apply consistent method in aggregating, analysing, organising and expressing information;
- Describe and examine relevant alternate perspectives, and identify complementary and contradictory conclusions and arguments;
- Discuss how Christian worldview interacts with major events and interpretations of the period, and so informs church life and mission;
- Summarise and interpret events in the period and provide an account of the major streams of interpretation.
Subject Content
- Living in the midst of things: present experiences of the past, theories of Modernity and Globalization and the rise of ‘the West’/ ‘global north’.
- A year of wonders: 1688, religion, the glorious revolution and Britain’s imperial emergence into the world (events and interpretations).
- Trade, Settlement, and human rights up to the American Revolution (events and interpretations).
- The French Revolution and the birth of the 19th century; the ‘liberal’ British empire in pan-imperial context, the rise of the national system (events and interpretations), settlement of Australia.
- High imperialism, the scramble for colonies up to World War I; the ‘Christian empire’, ‘God King and country’?
- The Collapse of Empires, 1917 -1990, the international system, universalization of human rights discourse, the ‘long war’ 1914-1989.
- The future of the (trans)national system, from borders to global flows, shifting visions of ‘the globe’ and universal/ world/ transnational histories.
This course may be offered in the following formats
- Face to Face (onsite)
- E-Learning (online)
Assessment Methods
- Case Study (25%)
- Major Essay (50%)
- Forum Posts (10%)
- Proposal & Annotated Bibliography (15%)
Prescribed Text
- Primary readings provided
