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The Modern World: Global History since 1760
Coursera
1 recommender · 1 thread · recommended in 1 year, 2013 · score 0.7
A free Coursera history course surveying global history from 1760 onward, delivered as roughly weekly video lectures over about 15 weeks. It is one of two Coursera history courses the commenter took.
A commenter recommends it, saying it changed how they view news by placing events in a longer historical context.
Humanities & Social Sciencebeginnerfreevideo lectures#global history#modern history#coursera#context
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So far, I have been taking 2 history courses [1][2] on coursera.org (which offers over 300 free online courses) and I can certainly recommend both of them. Each course looks like this: about 2 hours of video lectures per week (which you can watch whenever you want), over a period of ~15 weeks. Clearly, following those history courses meant that I do not see the world with the same eyes now. For one, I feel that I am developing a (healthy) reflex to view news events in perspective within a longer period of time, instead of just considering the events in themselves (thus lacking context). Also, drawing parallels with similar events in the past provides insight and offers a wider and more informed framework for devising an appropriate action.
[1] "The Modern World: Global History since 1760" https://www.coursera.org/course/modernworld
[2] "A History of the World since 1300" https://www.coursera.org/course/wh1300