Request for New Course
EASTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY
DIVISION OF ACADEMIC AFFAIRS
REQUEST FOR NEW COURSE
DEPARTMENT/SCHOOL: GEOGRAPHY AND GEOLOGY AND HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY_COLLEGE:ARTS AND
SCIENCES
CONTACT PERSON: _RUSS OLWELL AND ZACH MOORE___________________________________________
CONTACT PHONE: 7-0372
CONTACT EMAIL: ROLWELL@EMICH.EDU
REQUESTED START DATE: TERM_FALL____________YEAR__2012_________
A. Rationale/Justification for the Course
This course is part of a revision of the social studies teaching curriculum, designed to give teacher candidates an
integrated, interdisciplinary modern world history and geography experience, as mandated by the Michigan Department
of Education.
B. Course Information
1. Subject Code and Course Number: Hist/Geog 301
2. Course Title:
3. Credit Hours:
History & Geography of the Modern World
3
4. Repeatable for Credit?
Yes_______ No___x___
If “Yes”, how many total credits may be earned?_______
5. Catalog Description (Limit to approximately 50 words.):
This course provides an interdisciplinary study of global history and geography from 1500 to the present. It addresses
key issues in global history and geography (such as the Colombian exchange, colonialism, global war) across several
different world regions.
6. Method of Delivery (Check all that apply.)
a. Standard (lecture/lab)
On Campus
x
x
Off Campus
b. Fully Online
c. Hybrid/ Web Enhanced
7. Grading Mode:
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Normal (A-E) x
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8. Prerequisites: Courses that MUST be completed before a student can take this course. (List by Subject Code,
Number and Title.)
Hist 110
Geog 110
World History since 1600
World Regions
9. Concurrent Prerequisites: Courses listed in #5 that MAY also be taken at the same time as a student is taking this
course. (List by Subject Code, Number and Title.)
10. Corequisites: Courses that MUST be taken at the same time as a student in taking this course.
(List by
Subject Code, Number and Title.)
11. Equivalent Courses. A student may not earn credit for both a course and its equivalent. A course will count as a
repeat if an equivalent course has already been taken. (List by Subject Code, Number and Title)
12. Course Restrictions:
a. Restriction by College. Is admission to a specific College Required?
College of Business
Yes
No
x
College of Education
Yes
No
x
b. Restriction by Major/Program. Will only students in certain majors/programs be allowed to take this course?
Yes
No
x
If “Yes”, list the majors/programs
c. Restriction by Class Level Check all those who will be allowed to take the course:
Undergraduate
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All undergraduates____x___
All graduate students__ _
Freshperson
Certificate
Sophomore
Masters
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Junior
Specialist
Senior
Doctoral
Second Bachelor________
UG Degree Pending_____
Post-Bac. Tchr. Cert._____
Low GPA Admit_______
Note: If this is a 400-level course to be offered for graduate credit, attach Approval Form for 400-level
Course for Graduate
Credit. Only “Approved for Graduate Credit” undergraduate courses may be included on graduate
programs of study.
Note: Only 500-level graduate courses can be taken by undergraduate students. Undergraduate
students may not register for
600-level courses
d. Restriction by Permission. Will Departmental Permission be required? Yes
No
x
(Note: Department permission requires the department to enter authorization for every student registering.)
13. Will the course be offered as part of the General Education Program?
Yes
No
x
If “Yes”, attach Request for Inclusion of a Course in the General Education Program: Education for Participation in
the Global Community form. Note: All new courses proposed for inclusion in this program will be reviewed by the
General Education Advisory Committee. If this course is NOT approved for inclusion in the General Education
program, will it still be offered?
Yes
No
C. Relationship to Existing Courses
Within the Department:
14. Will this course will be a requirement or restricted elective in any existing program(s)? Yes
x
No
If “Yes”, list the programs and attach a copy of the programs that clearly shows the place the new course will have in
the curriculum.
Program
Social Studies Teaching (RX), History Teaching, Geography Teaching,
Required_x_ Restricted Elective
Program
15. Will this course replace an existing course? Yes
Required
No
Restricted Elective
x
16. (Complete only if the answer to #15 is “Yes.”)
a. Subject Code, Number and Title of course to be replaced:
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b. Will the course to be replaced be deleted?
Yes
No
17. (Complete only if the answer #16b is “Yes.”) If the replaced course is to be deleted, it is not necessary to
submit a Request for Graduate and Undergraduate Course Deletion.
a. When is the last time it will be offered?
Term
Year
b. Is the course to be deleted required by programs in other departments?
Contact the Course and Program Development Office if necessary.
Yes
c. If “Yes”, do the affected departments support this change?
No
Yes
No
If “Yes”, attach letters of support. If “No”, attach letters from the affected department explaining the lack of
support, if available.
Outside the Department: The following information must be provided. Contact the Course and Program
Development office for assistance if necessary.
18. Are there similar courses offered in other University Departments?
If “Yes”, list courses by Subject Code, Number and Title
Yes
No
x
19. If similar courses exist, do the departments in which they are offered support the proposed course?
Yes
No
If “Yes”, attach letters of support from the affected departments. If “No”, attach letters from the affected department
explaining the lack of support, if available.
D. Course Requirements
20. Attach a detailed Sample Course Syllabus including:
a.
b.
c.
d.
e.
f.
g.
h.
Course goals, objectives and/or student learning outcomes
Outline of the content to be covered
Student assignments including presentations, research papers, exams, etc.
Method of evaluation
Grading scale (if a graduate course, include graduate grading scale)
Special requirements
Bibliography, supplemental reading list
Other pertinent information.
Historical Geography of The Modern World
Goals and objectives:
Students will be able to critically analyze events from 1500 to the present using both a geographical/spatial and
historical analysis
Students will be able to analyze major issues in world history and geography from 1500 to the present.
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Students will understand the geography and history of major events as they relate to population, the environment,
culture, identity, the economy, politics, agriculture, and cities/countries.
Students will be able to compare/contrast the impact of historical events on different regions of the world.
Students will examine how geographic variables influenced historical events in different regions of the world.
Students will learn the relationship between and among places, their resources and climate, the region(s) humanenvironment interactions, and historical development.
Students will be able to analyze the global impact of key changes in world history, such as the Columbian exchange,
colonialism, global war, and geopolitical events.
Students will be able to describe historical events in terms of regional, comparative, and global impact.
Students will be able to critically think about the interplay of culture, society, and space as they analyze major issues in
world history.
Students will be able to think reflectively about the construction, transmission, and contestation of historical narratives,
particularly through the lens of space and place.
Students will be able to analyze primary documents created throughout the world.
Students will be able to utilize geographic information sources and technologies to address global issues.
Outline of content:
Introduction: Everything is somewhere! An Introduction to thinking like a Geographer; Historical Thinking as
an “unnatural act.”
Readings: Sam Wineburg, “Historical Thinking and other Unnatural Acts.”
Yi-Fu Tuan, “A View of Geography.”
Carl O. Sauer, “Education of a Geographer.”
Michael F. Goodchild and Donald G. Janelle, “Thinking Spatially in the Social Sciences.”
Michel-Rolph Trouillot, “The three faces of Sans Souci” in Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of
History
Unit 1: The World before 1500; Atlas pages: 7-9; 18-19; 28-29; 30-31; 32-33; 34-35;
Tignor et al., Worlds Together, Worlds Apart, “Crises and Recovery in Afro-Eurasia,” 1300-1500.
Supplementary Reading: Selection from William McNeill, The Pursuit of Power: Technology, Armed Force,
and Society since A.D. 1000
Unit 2: The 1500s: Exploration and Contact
Atlas pages: 38-39; 65; 66-67; 91; 92-93; 94-95; 96-97; 98-99; 100-101; 102-103; 150-151;
152-153
Worlds Together, Worlds Apart, Contact, Commerce and Colonization, 1450s-1600
Supplementary Reading: Selection from Alfred Crosby Jr. The Columbian Exchange.
Unit 3: The 1600s: Contact, Commerce, Colonization
Atlas pages: 117; 118-119; 120-121; 122-123; 124-125; 126-127; 128-129; 130-131; 132-133
134-135; 154-155;
Worlds Together, Worlds Apart, Worlds Entangled, 1600-1750
Supplementary Reading: Marcus Rediker, The Slave Ship: A Human History
Unit 4: The 1700s: Philosophical Change, Political Revolution, and Economic Uncertainty
Atlas pages: 136-137; 138-139; 140-141; 142-143; 156-157; 158-159; 16-161; 162-163;
Worlds Together, Worlds Apart. Cultures and Splendor and Power, 1500-1780
Reading: Selection from Eric Hobsbawm, Age of Revolution
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Unit 5: The 1800s: In the Wake of Revolution—Continental and Colonial Expansion
Atlas pages: 144-145; 164-165; 166-167; 168-169; 170-171; 173; 174-175; 176-177;
Worlds Together, Worlds Apart. Reordering the World, 1750-1800 and Alternative Visions of the Nineteenth
Century.
Reading: Selection from Eric Hobsbawm, Age of Revolution
Unit 6: 1900s and Beyond: The Modern Age
Atlas pages: 178-179; 180-181; 182-183; 185; 186-187; 188-189; 190-191; 192-193; 194-195;
196-197;
Worlds Together, Worlds Apart, Nations and Empires, 1850-1914 and Of Masses and Visions of the Modern.
Reading: Selection from Walter Moss, An age of progress?: Clashing twentieth-century global forces
Unit 7: Globalizations.
Worlds Together, Worlds Apart. The Three-World Order, 1940-1975, and Globalization, 1970-2000
Supplementary Reading: Thomas Friedman, The World is Flat.
Assignments:
Students in the class will complete quizzes tests, analytical essays, map assignments and a research project as part of
the class.
Evaluation:
Students in this class will be evaluated through research papers, analytical essays, map assignments, and in class tests.
Special Requirements:
None
Grading Scale:
Grade
A
AB+
B
BC+
C
CD+
D
DE
I
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Significance
Exceptionally high order
Distinctly above the average
Average
Below Average
Unsatisfactory (denoting failure)
Incomplete
Grade points per credit hour
4.0
3.7
3.3
3.0
2.7
2.3
2.0
1.7
1.3
1.0
0.7
0.0
0.0
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Press, 1989.
Adas, Michael, and American Historical Association. Islamic & European Expansion: The Forging of a Global Order
Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1993.
Bentley, Jerry H., and American Historical Association. Shapes of world history in twentieth-century scholarship
(Essays on global and comparative history) Washington, D.C.: American Historical Association, 1996.
Black, Jeremy. 1997. Maps and History: Constructing Images of the Past. New Haven, CT: Yale UP.
Blaut, J.M. 1993. The Colonizer’s Model of the World: Geographical Diffusionism and Eurocentric History. Guilford
Publications.
Braudel, Fernand. Capitalism and Material Life, 1400-1800 New York: Harper and Row, 1973.
Chaudhuri, K. N. Asia before Europe: Economy and Civilisation of the Indian Ocean from the Rise of Islam to 1750
Cambridge [Cambridgeshire]; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1990.
Christian, David. 2004. Maps of Time: An Introduction to Big History. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Cooper, Frederick, and Ann Laura Stoler. Tensions of Empire: Colonial Cultures in a Bourgeois World Berkeley,
Calif.: University of California Press, 1997.
Crosby, Alfred W. Ecological Imperialism: The Biological Expansion of Europe, 900-1900 (Studies in Environment
and History) Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1986.
Curtin, Philip D. The Rise and Fall of the Plantation Complex: Essays in Atlantic History (Studies in Comparative
World History)Cambridge [England]; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1990.
Davis, David Brion. Revolutions : Reflections on American Equality and Foreign Liberations Cambridge, Mass.:
Harvard University Press, 1990.
De Blij, Harm. 2008. The Power of Place: Geography, Destiny, and Globalization’s Rough Landscape. Oxford
University Press, USA.
Diamond, Jared M. 1999. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies. W. W. Norton & Company.
Dirks, Nicholas B. Colonialism and Culture (The Comparative Studies in Society and History Book Series) Ann Arbor:
University of Michigan Press, 1992.
Frank, Andre Gunder. ReORIENT: Global Economy in the Asian Age Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998.
Frank, Andre Gunder, and Barry K. Gills. The World System: Five Hundred Years or Five Thousand?London; New
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Gersmehl, Phil. 2008. Teaching Geography. Guilford Press.
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THE GLOBAL COMMUNITY PROGRAM MUST USE THE SYLLABUS TEMPLATE PROVIDED BY THE
GENERAL EDUCATION ADVISORY COMMITTEE. THE TEMPLATE IS ATTACHED TO THE
REQUEST FOR INCLUSION OF A COURSE IN THE GENERAL EDUCATION PROGRAM: EDUCATION
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E. Cost Analysis (Complete only if the course will require additional University resources. Fill in Estimated
Resources for the sponsoring department(s). Attach separate estimates for other affected departments.)
Estimated Resources:
Year One
Year Two
Year Three
Faculty / Staff
$_________
$_________
$_________
SS&M
$_________
$_________
$_________
Equipment
$_________
$_________
$_________
Total
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F. Action of the Department/School and College
1. Department/School
Vote of faculty:
For ____15____
Against ____0_____
Abstentions ____0_____
(Enter the number of votes cast in each category.)
Kate Mehuron
Department Head/School Director Signature
Vote of faculty:
11/14/11
Date
For ____16____
Against ____0_____
Abstentions _____0____
(Enter the number of votes cast in each category.)
Richard A. Sambrook
Department Head/School Director Signature
3/9/12
Date
2. College/Graduate School
A. College
College Dean Signature
Date
B. Graduate School (if Graduate Course)
Graduate Dean Signature
Date
G. Approval
Associate Vice-President for Academic Programming Signature
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