HIST 258

Fall 2025 Part of Term 1

Part of Term 1
Aug 25-Dec 10

20thC World to Midcentury

Credit: 3 hours.

Economic, social, political, and cultural developments in twentieth-century world history from late nineteenth-century to Second World War era.

This course satisfies the General Education Criteria in Fall 2022 for:

Humanities – Hist & Phil

Cultural Studies - Western

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HIST 258 class schedule data for fall 2025
	CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
	30349	Lecture-Discussion	A	12:30PM -1:50PM	TR	1310 Digital Computer Laboratory	Djordjevic, S Jaimes, M	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/25/25-12/10/25 Degree Notes: Humanities - Hist & Phil, and Cultural Studies - Western course. Section Info: Description: World War I (1914-1918) was the first incarnation in human history of modern industrial warfare on a global scale. Our class examines World War I’s astonishing global legacy. We will learn about military operations, political ramifications (including the demise of empires and the rise of Soviet communism), about battlefront and home front (including trench warfare and chemical weapons, food rationing, and the feminization of the workforce). We will also study the war’s psychological and embodied effects (shell-shock, amputation, plastic surgery, sexuality, and disability) as well as artistic and cultural attempts to represent its devastation in poetry, art, music, dance, theatre, film, and literature. Our class investigates how WWI influenced present global concerns towards everything from terrorism and human rights to race, revolution, and global apocalypse. If you are interested in exploring the ways in which modern warfare shapes the world in which we live, this class is for you.