Unit Essay Questions and Mode of Analysis

Here is the list of Essay questions for each of the 13 Units. Each analysis section of the CD-ROM uses one of the following mode of analyses: Formulate Issues ,Sift Evidence, Critique Interpretations, Construct a Narrative or Connect the patterns.

Unit 1. Migrations in world history, 1500-2000

Unit question: What can we learn about ourselves and the world by studying migration in history? Mode of Analysis: Formulate Issues

Unit 2. Exploration and conquest, 1400-1600

Unit question: How have migrants and those they encountered viewed each other? Mode of Analysis: Sift Evidence

Unit 3. Commerce and religion, 1500-1700

Unit question: What has been the impact of merchants and missionaries on their homes and destinations? Mode of Analysis: Critique Interpretations

Unit 4. Families on the move, 1550-1750

Unit question: How have the various stages of migration influenced gender roles? Mode of Analysis: Construct Narrative

Unit 5. Carrying and borrowing culture, 1650-1750

Unit question: How have cultural practices moved and changed with migration? Mode of Analysis: Connect Patterns

Unit 6. Forced migration, 1700-1850

Unit question: How did migration create systems of power and dominance? Mode of Analysis: Sift Evidence

Unit 7. Migration and identity, 1750-1850

Unit question: What was the role of migration in creating modern notions of race, nation, and ethnicity? Mode of Analysis: Critique Interpretations

Unit 8. Global economy, regional migrations, 1800-1900

Unit question: Was industrialization tied more to long-distance or to short-distance migration? Mode of Analysis: Construct Narrative

Unit 9. Empire and migration, 1850-1920

Unit question: Was large-scale emigration from Europe linked to new imperial conquests? Mode of Analysis: Connect Patterns

Unit 10. Diasporas and culture, 1880-1950

Unit question: In what ways do diasporas and national culture create cosmopolitan culture? Mode of Analysis: Sift Evidence

Unit 11. Nations and Refugees, 1900-1980

Unit question: How can nationalism lead to genocide? Mode of Analysis: Critique Interpretations

Unit 12. Families in cities, 1920-1990

Unit question: How does migration change family structure? Mode of Analysis: Construct Narrative

Unit 13. Identities in a global age, 1970-2000

Unit question: What choices in identity do people now face? Which people adopt a global identity? Mode of Analysis: Connect Patterns

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