Goal 7: HIST 110

For HIST 110, otherwise known as Modern Western Civilization, I had Professor Melissa Kravetz. She is a highly esteemed professor at the college and made the class enjoyable, despite the heavy readings. I am typically very intrigued by history, and this class proved no different.

Our two textbooks for nightly readings were The Making of the West: Peoples and Cultures, A Concise History, Volume 2: Since 1500 (5th edition) and Sources of the West: Readings in Western Civilization, Volume 2: From 1600 to Present (8th edition). Majority of our readings came from The Making of the West, our secondary source, while a few came from Sources of the West, our primary source for the class.

A few units we studied during the semester include:

1. Overseas Exploration and the Building of Empires
2. The Scientific Revolution
3. Enlightenment
4. The French Revolution
5. The Industrial Era
6. Imperialism
7. The World Wars
8. The Russian Revolution
9. The Cold War
10. Decolonization and Globalization

Our assessments included a weekly reading quiz based on the readings of the previous week. Each quiz was 10 questions long and out of 100 points. Students were also tasked with writing a Primary Document Analysis, which was 15% of our overall grade in the course.

For my Primary Document Analysis, I assessed Alexis Soyer’s Modern Housewife and Isabella Beeton’s Mrs. Beeton’s Book of Household Management. Both texts came from Sources of the West. I have included a copy of the analysis below.