Political Science 277 - Making a Global World

The course is an overview of how the world went from being a set of very distinct regions, some unaware of others, c. 1450 to the highly connected world of today where cross-region interaction is so thick that it makes sense to speak of "globalization." It pays attention to the changes in ideas, social beliefs and conventions (particularly in the political and economic realms), and human use of physical objects and the natural environment more generally to understand the rise of interconnection in 1870-1914, the decline between 1914-1945, and the reemergence of strong interconnection after 1970. (Gen.Ed. HS)