College World History 2

HS Credit Value: 1 Credit / Full Year Course
College Credit Value:
Grade levels: 10

Course Description: 

This course is coordinated through Mount Saint Mary College. Students will earn 3 college credits upon successful completion of the course for the first and second semesters. HIST 1040 fulfills the New York State Global Studies and Geography II Requirement. However, the Global Studies and Geography Regents exam will have to be taken in June of the year enrolled if a current 10th grade student.

The course is a survey of world history from 1500 to the present. Starting with the transformation of the West, the rise of European imperialism and at the same time, the decline of established civilizations in China, India, Latin America and Africa, the course then follows the turbulent twentieth century with the two World Wars, the Cold War, decolonization and nation-building. It concludes with a study of globalization, the war against terror and other challenges for our world in the first decades of the twenty-first century. 

Combining the regional and thematic approaches, this course provides an overview of the culture and history of principal regions and countries while highlighting global trends and patterns of interactions that have tied our world together.

Prerequisite: 88 or better average in Global 1 History course and an 85 or better on the Global 1 Final Exam.

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