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HIST 444: Adventures at Sea: Indian Ocean in World History
This course examines the history of the interconnected region that scholars today call the Indian Ocean World. One of the oldest and most significant maritime highways in the world, it connected the east coast of Africa with the Chinese empires. The course focuses on the adventures of people who traversed long distances and shaped this world – merchants, soldiers, religious pilgrims, sailors, pirates, slaves, indentured laborers and sex workers. It considers the varieties of sources that can aid in constructing the history of the region, how forces of globalization and colonization affected its development, and how this region influenced the patterns of world history. This course will also give students the opportunity to understand what “historians” do within the “discipline” of history and make advances towards historical thinking.
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Prerequisites
HIST 220 or HIST 232 or HIST 233 or HIST 262 or HIST 263 or HIST 264 or HIST 268 or HIST 273 or HIST 274 or HIST 275 or HIST 277 or HIST 278 or HIST 280 or HIST 281 or HIST 285 or HIST 286 or HIST 287 or HIST 288 or HIST 289 or HIST 290
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Each course's own prerequisites, down to the first courses in the chain.
- HIST 220 Introduction to South Asian History
- HIST 232 History of the Jews before the Modern Era
- HIST 233 Modern Jewish History
- HIST 262 African American History to 1865
- HIST 263 African American History since 1865
- HIST 268 Introduction to Asian-American History
- HIST 273 Latin America: 1492-1824
- HIST 274 Latin America: 1824 to the Present
- HIST 275 North American Indigenous History
- HIST 277 Canada: A Historical Survey
- HIST 278 Multiculturalism in Canada
- HIST 280 Introduction to East Asian Civilizations
- HIST 281 East Asian History in the Early-Modern and Modern Eras
- HIST 285 African History to 1800
- HIST 286 African History, 1800-present
- HIST 287 Introduction to Islamic Civilization
- HIST 288 History of the Modern Middle East
- HIST 289 Islam in France
- HIST 290 The Early Modern Atlantic World
From Banner's catalog for Spring 2027. Banner lists only the requisites it enforces, so check the catalog entry too.
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