HON 184. Social Science Concepts: the Global and the Local

3.00
This course has a dual purpose. First, it introduces students to key social science concepts. Using primary sources to the extent possible, students develop a critical understanding of units of analysis such as state, revolution, nation, gender, race, culture, class, freedom, and power. Second, through a variety of disciplinary perspectives, it applies those concepts to analyses of the ways in which human cultures and polities have exchanged ideas and developed power relations during different historical periods from antiquities to the present. The context is therefore global, with special attention give to the effects of global phenomena on specific localities.