Session

Fall 2025

 Term

Y

Format

LECT

Instructor

Calendar Description / Prerequisite / Co-Requisite

This course introduces a selection of the most important moments, events, or transformations in human history. The course, shepherded and managed by a Course Director who will oversee the curriculum, assignments and tutorials to ensure coherence and continuity, features guest faculty members from the History department, each of whom delivers a 3-week module on a greatest hit of history. Each module follows a similar format: Lecture 1 presents the event, movement, or transformation in all of its epic proportions. Lecture 2 focuses on one specific person, day, element, or source from the hit on a human scale. Lecture 3 offers the expert professor's creativity as a historian, drawing connections from the module's focus to other events, phenomena, or the present. The course covers 8 hits per year. The specific list will change from year to year. Hits may include subjects like the Agricultural Revolution, the Fall of the Roman Empire, the Birth of Islam, the Rise of Capitalism, the Atlantic Slave Trade, the Great Depression, WWII, The Cold War, and the Information Revolution.There are no prerequisites or co-requisites.

Course Start Up

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