Edmonds School District

Course Number

SOC 535

Length/Credit

Course Name

Modern World History

Prerequisite

Location

EWHS

Course Description

Purpose: Students will gain an understanding of the people, events, and ideas that have shaped our modern world. This course meets the senior social studies requirement for graduation.

Content: Topics include: world and local wars, Russia's revolution and others, social change involving new manners, orals, art, music, intellectual changes, the Depression, the rise of the dictators and totalitarianism, the Holocaust, the atomic bomb and nuclear proliferation; the emergence of China and the Third World, and the Cold War, the fall of Communism and new world order.