WORLD HISTORY

COURSE SYLLABUS 2017-18

Instructor: Coach Smiley

Course Title: World History from 1300: The Making of the Modern World

Classroom: Room F-11

Phone: 843-489-8844

  1. Course Description

This course is designed to introduce students to important concepts of World History and to broaden their knowledge about major historical periods. Students will extensively study eight significant, recurring themes. These major themes are as follows: power & authority; religious & ethical systems; revolution; interaction with environment; economics; cultural interaction; empire building; and science & technology. Students will discover that people from all over the world are more alike than they realize. This course will also demonstrate ways people and places are interrelated. Students will learn that throughout history humans have confronted similar obstacles, have struggled to achieve similar goals, and continually have strived to better themselves and the world around them.

  1. South Carolina State World History Standards

WORLD HISTORY FROM 1300: THE MAKING OF THE MODERN WORLD

World History is designed to assist students inunderstanding how people and countries of the world have become increasingly interconnected. In the last six hundred years, population growth, demand for resources, curiosity, andtechnology have converged to draw the distant corners of the world closer together. Criticalthinking is focal to this course, which emphasizes why and how people, ideas, and technologyhave made an impact on diverse groups of people.

Standard MWH-1: The student will demonstrate an understanding of the major factors thatfacilitated exchanges among groups of people and how exchangesinfluenced those people in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries.

Standard MWH-2: The student will demonstrate an understanding of the benefits and costs ofthe growth of kingdoms into empires from the fourteenth through thesixteenth centuries.

Standard MWH-3: The student will demonstrate an understanding of the impact of religiousmovements throughout the world in the fourteenth through the sixteenth

centuries.

Standard MWH-4: The student will demonstrate an understanding of the conflicts of the

seventeenth and eighteenth centuries in Europe, America, Africa, andAsia.

Standard MWH-5: The student will demonstrate an understanding of the influence of ideasand technology on the development of nation-states and empires in thesixteenth through the nineteenth centuries.

Standard MWH-6: The student will demonstrate an understanding of the creation of nation-statesin Europe and the struggle by non-European nations to gain and/or

maintain sovereignty.

Standard MWH-7: The student will demonstrate an understanding of the causes and

consequences of global warfare in the first half of the twentieth century.

Standard MWH-8: The student will demonstrate an understanding of the causes and

consequences of decolonization in the second half of the twentieth century

and the beginning of the twenty-first century.

  1. Assignments
  1. Class work
  2. Class notes
  3. Presentations
  4. Quizzes/Tests
  5. Research Paper
  6. Class Projects
  7. Mid-Semester Exam
  8. Final Exam
  9. Class Participation
  1. Supplies needed
  1. 3-ring binder notebook (3inch)with four dividers; Label the dividers as follows:
  2. Loose leaf notebook paper
  3. Blue or black ink pens
  1. Regulations and Expectations
  1. Be on time to class. If you are late, then you must obtain a tardy pass; this pass will allow your admissioninto the classroom.
  2. Remain on task at all times. Take notes and complete all class assignments, including tests. Follow along with the instructor for the duration of the class period. Students are expected to complete all assigned classwork, homework, projects, and research papers.
  3. Remain seated at all times, and raise your hand when you have a question or when a personal need arises.
  4. Seating in this classroom will be assigned and will be in alphabetical order.
  5. Bring all necessary notebooks, paper, assignments, pens, pencils, and any other materials required to class each day.
  6. Students must always have a pass to be in the hall.
  7. When using the restroom, only one student at a time, because only one pass has been provided by the school administration per classroom. In addition, using the restroom should not be abused.
  1. Grades

A = 90-100%

B = 80-89%

C = 70-79%

D = 60-69%

F = 59% and below

  1. Disclaimer:

I reserve the right to make changes or to make alterations to this syllabus for any future unforeseen circumstances.