HIST 1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Volcanism, Pleistocene, Cubic Metre
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Part i: shaping the human experience (august 21 to september 20) Part ii: conflicts and crises (september 21 to october 25) Part iii: a great divergence ? (october 26 to december 14) Bring scantrons and #2 pencils to exams: exam #1 september 20, exam #2 october 25, exam #3 (final) december 13. Extra credit is attached to your attendance (2 or less absences) by 2 points. Si sessions mw 4-5:30 pm in haley 3328. History - an evidence-based, episodic yet global, problem-posing disciplines that is never complete because the future is simple the past that has not happened yet. Ex: newspapers, music, journals, artwork, photographs, television, trees, bones, organic materials. History is never ending - new events are constantly happening and contributing to history. The future is simply the past that hasn"t happened yet. Institutions - the humanly devised constraints that structure political, economic, and social interactions.