CDL COURSE ENTRY FORM


Author: Laura Wait/SUNY
Last modified by: Laura Wait/SUNY
Composed: 08/09/2005 03:37 PM
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Modified: 02/28/2018
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Course Number: (prefix) HIS (number) 242504 ESC 2.0 Course number: HIST-2040 HIST-2040An Economic History of the West

Name: An Economic History of the West
Datatel Title: (30char) An Economic History

Area Coordinator: Dana Gliserman-Kopans Department Code: 10LH Team: Humanities

Liberal Study? YES Level: LOWER Credits: 4 Prerequisite? NO
General Education Course? YES GenEd Approval Term/Year:

GenEd Area 1: 5. Western CivilizationFully or Partially: f
GenEd Area 2: Fully or Partially:



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Course will be offered (for online course descriptions, proposed offerings for by term views and web views)
Spring 1, Fall 1		Course will be offered (for final term listings, online registration, online bookordering, web views)
Spring 1, Fall 1
First Term Offered: 2006SP (Required Format: YearTerm - i.e., 2005SP)
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Description: The scholarship of many historians suggests that trade and commerce are among the most important factors that have influenced the evolution and direction of human civilizations. Accordingly, this course examines how economic developments have served as a catalyst for change throughout the development and spread of Western Civilization. In order to understand the distinctive features of the history, institutions, society, culture, and politics of Western Civilization, students will be introduced to Western philosophies or theorizations of "economy" in terms of history and civilization, and examine different expressions of such theory through the analysis of labor systems, imperialism, industrialization, urbanization, trade, distribution of income, and agricultural expansion. They will follow the evolution of such theories and consider how they have shaped historical developments from antiquity to the present. Students will illustrate connections between economic, social, cultural, and political developments within the context of the historical and contemporary West. In short, students will engage with "the economic" as a particularly useful lens for understanding Western Civilization.

This course fully meets the General Education requirement in Western Civilization.

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Major Course Area
Historical Studies		Minor Course Area
Economics, History and Civilizations		SLN Disciplines
History
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genedcode for dpplanner: 5^f~8

genedfull area for dpplanner: Western Civilization