The History department is a survey course incorporating basic geographic concepts, which enable students to orient themselves within our country and the world. This course will provide students with the knowledge necessary to understand their role as citizens of the global village. The course emphasizes the rise of modern nations, technical and commercial revolutions, colonialism, world conflicts, the rise and fall of totalitarianism, twentieth century nationalism in America, Africa, Latin America, Eastern Europe, and the Middle East. Inhumanity as illustrated by the events of slavery, the conditions of women, the Holocaust totalitarian regimes, and Apartheid are confronted as well.