The Making of the Modern World
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OFFICE: Eleanor Roosevelt College, Administration
Building
http://roosevelt.ucsd.edu/mmw/
The Making of the Modern World (MMW) is an interdisciplinary, six-course program that provides a broad, global overview of the past from the dawn of human history and early societies (MMW 1) to social, environmental, economic, and political challenges facing the contemporary world (MMW 6). It is designed to encourage students to think historically, comparatively, and in an interdisciplinary manner about both the past and the present. MMW also provides instruction in university-level writing and analysis as students examine and interpret both primary and secondary source material. ERC students entering UC San Diego as freshmen are required to complete the full MMW sequence (six quarters), while transfer students, entering UCSD as upper classmen, are only required to take any three quarters, usually including the transfer specific course MMW 4T. Each course includes lectures, discussion sections, 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.”