HIST 105 - Roots of World Issues

• Integrate concepts, terminology, and factual evidence from various disciplines in original ways (group activities, classroom discussions, authentic assessments, etc.).
• Employ critical thinking to identify and evaluate diverse viewpoints (cultural, social, and economic) and present them in written and oral forms (research projects, essay exams, oral presentations, etc.).
• Effectively analyze and synthesize sources for research projects, oral presentations, authentic assessments, etc.
• Articulate and support a position with evidence and concepts from the course.
• Identify and model norms for effective group work including active listening and shared responsibility within a learning community.
• Critically assess one’s core values, cultural assumptions, and biases in relation to those held by other individuals, cultures, and societies.
• Identify and explain how present circumstances in the world are historically constructed.
• Analyze and critique the inequality of social, economic, cultural, and geopolitical systems, including one’s own position within them.
• Demonstrate sufficient depth of knowledge of selected world issues to make relevant connections with related issues facing the world today.

1. The course modules will revolve around these interconnected topics and will occasionally change to reflect current world issues:
   • Natural Environments and Natural Resources
     • Water: Pristine, Polluted, and Privatized
     • Globalization and Localization
       • Who defines human rights?
       • Inequality
         • Development: Getting left behind
         • Global Conflict
           • The Pacific Century
           • Global Cooperation
             • Climate Change: Regional causes, global consequences