Description
This course will offer teachers and/or teacher candidates an opportunity to learn the complex historical content surrounding the many events involved in the integration and fragmentation of Europe. This course will appropriately focus on certain portions of the New York State Education Department Social Studies Standards of World History, Geography, and Economics by including an examination of important connections and interactions of people and their differing views of the same events; an analysis of significant turning points in world history; a study of the major European social, political, economic and military developments and the influence of geography on these movements; an explanation of the major economic systems of Europe and investigation of decision making that determined economic changes within Europe.