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HIST 130The Modern World in Historical Perspective

Faculty
Arts
Offered
Fall, Winter, Spring
Credit
0.5
Last listed
1994–95

No longer offered. It’s in Waterloo’s scanned calendars from 1976–77 to 1994–95; the 1995–96 to 2023–24 calendars are on ucalendar.

This course will introduce students, through interrelationships and interaction of selected themes, to the contemporary history of Europe, North America, and the Far East. Its format includes 2 interpretive lectures per week plus major films on 20th century crises and optional discussion groups.

As printed in the 1976–77 to 1994–95 calendars, read by OCR; the scanned page is the original. Later calendars (1995–96 on) aren’t on uwloo.

Discussed on r/uwaterloo

2 posts and comments in 2 threads mention HIST 130, October 2012 to December 2024. Quoted word for word, newest first; each reply sits under the post and the comment that started its branch. Search r/uwaterloo for newer posts.

Spring 2020

A mandatory "racism course" Will do literally nothing; Take it from someone who does bird courses all the time 360 points, 45 comments

“We arts students are the experts on dumb courses that take up our time. Whether it be that weird film course you took for your fine arts requirement, or the class where you learned Italian despite …”

u/Laeriana: “… I would personally recommend the upcoming Fall offerings of HIST 130 and INDG 201 as classes to look into if you are.”

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Fall 2012

Favorite/most useful class you've taken? 13 points, 31 comments

“I'm just curious to know what you guys consider the most useful class you've taken - as in, a class you feel you've been able to apply in real-life situations. …”

u/webu: “HIST 130 - The Modern World in Historical Perspective. It's a brief overview of everything important that happened in the last 150 years. It explains why things in the world are the way they are. …”

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In the scanned calendars

How it read in each calendar from 1976–77 to 1994–95, newest first. The text is OCR of the scanned pages; years whose wording matches are shown once, from the clearest scan. Each year links to its page on uwloo and to that page of the scanned PDF.

1976–77 to 1994–95 17 calendars

This course will introduce students, through interrelationships and interaction of selected themes, to the contemporary history of Europe, North America, and the Far East. Its format includes 2 interpretive lectures per week plus major films on 20th century crises and optional discussion groups.

Offered Fall, Winter, Spring · 0.5 credit