Feb 19, 2025  
2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog

HS 120 - Turning Points in History [PERS]


Offered Fall: Yes Offered Winter: Yes Offered Summer: No Offered Other: No
4 Credits
Hours (Lecture - Discussion - Lab): 4-0-0
General Education: Perspectives on Society (PERS)  
This class provides a sustained examination of a major event, or related events, with substantial long-term ramifications. The course focuses on interpreting the role of said event(s) in history and society. Possible events include the glorious revolution, the abolition of slavery, the conquests of Tamerlane, the crusades, the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, or the ratification of the constitution.