HIST 259

Fall 2025 Part of Term B

Part of Term B
Oct 20-Dec 10

20thC World from Midcentury

Credit: 3 hours.

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

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

Humanities – Hist & Phil

Cultural Studies - Western

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HIST 259 class schedule data for fall 2025
	CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
	43297	Lecture-Discussion	A	9:00AM -10:50AM	MWF	209 Huff Hall	Sundarsingh, A	Part of Term: B Date Range: 10/20/25-12/10/25 Degree Notes: Humanities - Hist & Phil, and Cultural Studies - Western course. Section Info: The course begins with a close look a t decolonization, the process through which European colonies in Asia, Africa, and the Caribbean emerged as independent nation states. We will examine the transition from a world dominated by European imperial powers, particularly Britain, to the Cold War world dominated by two superpowers with competing ideologies and nuclear weaponry-- the United States and the Soviet Union. We will examine the rise and fall of great superpowers not from the imperial capitals of London, Paris, Washington D.C., or Moscow, but from the edges of empire--from places like Vietnam, Iran, Algeria, South Africa, and Jamaica.