HI 111 - Exploration and Discovery

This course introduces students to European voyages of discovery from the late middle ages until the early nineteenth century. European explorers navigated across the globe discovering new sea lanes and peoples. This course covers both the scientific and technological developments that made such voyages possible, the challenges explorers needed to overcome, and the consequences of these voyages on people and on the environment. Special attention will be paid to first encounters - the realities as well as the images of this cross cultural contact in the Americas, Africa, and Asia.

Four credits