| WEEK # | TOPICS | KEY DUE DATES |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Deep History and Big Data: Understanding Long-term Global Processes | Reading response due |
| 2 | Energy, the Standard of Living, and Measuring Economic Growth | Reading response due |
| 3 | The Tech Boom of the Middle Ages | Reading response due |
| 4 | Was Malthus Right?—Plague and the Post-Plague Economy | Reading response due |
| 5 | The Global Crisis of the 17th Century |
First book review due Reading response due |
| 6 | Consumers Everywhere |
Topic for the historiographical essay due Reading response due |
| 7 | The Industrial Revolution | Reading response due |
| 8 | Empire Building: East and West | Reading response due |
| 9 |
Slavery, the 'Resource Curse' and Inequality in the Contemporary World? Guest speaker: Professor Johan Furie, Department of Economics, Stellenbosch University, South Africa |
Second book review due Reading response due |
| 10 | Divergence: When and Why? |
Annotated bibliography for the historiographical essay due and updated for class Reading response due |
| 11 | No class – Individual meetings to work on projects | |
| 12 | Class presentations of individual final projects | Final papers due |