High School World History Initiative
A four year comprehensive study of human history.
Framework: Humans are a biological species embedded within an ecological context. Humans reside in landscapes and interact across networks.
Framework: Humans are a biological species embedded within an ecological context. Humans reside in landscapes and interact across networks.
- Year One: Big History
- Establish an ecological context
- Examine conditions of habitability that support and sustain the development of complex life
- Humanity's place within the cosmos
- Year Two: World History I
- Late Pleistocene to Early Holocene
- Humans within an ecological perspective
- Rise of complexity and political economic systems.
- Humanities' relationship with landscapes began to dramatically altered the Earth System
- Year Three: World History II
- Late Holocene
- Humans within an ecological perspective
- Humans began to develop global networks
- US History from a Global Perspective
- Trans-national and Trans-ecological Perspective
- The history of the United States within a world historical context