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A comprehensive journey through the forces, events, and ideas that shaped the modern world, from the Age of Revolutions to the present day. Students develop historical thinking skills, analyze primary sources, and connect the past to contemporary global issues.
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ReadyStudents will explore the major turning points that launched the modern era, from the Renaissance and Age of Exploration through the Enlightenment and early revolutions. By the end of this course, students can identify key events, figures, and ideas that broke from the medieval world and set the stage for modernity.
5 modules · Teacher: Professor Evelyn
Level 200
LockedStudents will analyze the sweeping transformations of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, including industrialization, imperialism, nationalism, and the two World Wars. By the end of this course, students can explain how these forces reshaped societies, borders, and power structures across the globe.
Unlocks when the previous course is complete.
Level 300
LockedStudents will examine the post-WWII global order, tracing the Cold War rivalry, decolonization movements, and the social revolutions that redefined nations and identities. By the end of this course, students can construct evidence-based arguments about how superpower competition and independence movements shaped the modern world.
Unlocks when the previous course is complete.
Level 400
LockedStudents will synthesize their historical knowledge to analyze the defining challenges of the contemporary era, globalization, terrorism, climate change, digital revolution, and rising authoritarianism. By the end of this course, students produce portfolio-quality historical essays and multimedia analyses that connect past patterns to present-day global issues.
Unlocks when the previous course is complete.
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