| Year Level: 2 | ||
| Equivalent GE Area(s) in 2011/2012 Model: |
Area 8 – World Histories and Cultures | |
This course area is designed to provide a general understanding of some of the key problems facing the modern world. In an attempt to understand the rise of modern-day ‘superpowers’, this course will focus on the historic role of ‘Empires’ and ‘Overseas Expansion’ in affecting political, economic, social and cultural development throughout the world in the modern period. Through an exploration of this process we will explore how empires (European and Asian) did not simply carry or enable global processes but rather how they gave rise to new hybrid forms of economic activity, political practice and cultural expressions.