Description
An introductory survey beginning with the Industrial Revolution in the West and extending to the present day. Topics to be addressed may include Western global imperialism, the development of political and social ideas such as socialism and communism, advances in science and technology, the rise to prominence of Japan, two World Wars, the Great Depression, American dominance and the Cold War, post-imperialism and the impacts on Africa, the rise of China, and the changes brought about by technology, secularism and fundamental religion, feminist movements, etc.