This two part course, disigned through a student/faculty partnership at Guttman Community College, seeks to break away from euro-centric models of history. This course will introduce students to the intellectual, religious, political, and cultural forces that transformed Europe, Africa, Asia, the Middle East and the Americas. This course focuses on breaking traditional historical narratives that trace the wealthy and political class throughout the last few thousand years of world history by uplifting the voices of working people whose struggles, movements and revolution shaped the modern globe.

Course Learning Outcomes:

Students will develop the ability to critically read and understand primary sources in relation to a given historical context. They will also have the opportunity to develop their own primary sources through the collection of oral histories.

By the end of the semester undergraduates should be able to write organized and well-written essays that critically examine a historical event, idea, tradition, person or process.

Students should be able to articulate motivations of various actors in major events studied in the course and complicate dominant narrative.