The Making of the Modern World
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OFFICE: Eleanor Roosevelt College, Administration Building
http://provost.ucsd.edu/roosevelt/mmw/
The Making of the Modern World is a six- course sequence required of all Eleanor Roosevelt College students. It is designed to encourage them to think historically, comparatively, and in an interdisciplinary manner about world cultures. Disciplinary perspectives include literature, history, philosophy, anthropology, sociology, political science, and fine arts. Students will examine and interpret primary documents and artifacts from diverse eras and cultures, as well as learn about them from secondary sources. All six quarters of the sequence will include lectures, discussions, and writing assignments. Courses in the sequence may be taken for a letter grade only.
Students in the Making of the Modern World 2 and 3 (offered in winter and spring quarters respectively) fulfill their University of California composition requirement by receiving intensive instruction in university-level writing. Subject matter for writing instruction is drawn from or related to course material. Instruction in writing is provided in discussion sessions, which meet twice each week. Each of these two writing-intensive quarters carries six units of credit. Students must have satisfied the university’s Entry Level Writing requirement in English composition before enrolling in the Making of the Modern World 2 or 3.
For further details on Eleanor Roosevelt College requirements, see “Eleanor Roosevelt College, General-Education Requirements.”
