Instruction is offered online through video lectures, study guides, required and supplemental readings, quizzes, homework, and final exams.  Major topics include: the voyages of Admiral Zheng He, the fall of Constantinople, Gutenberg’s print revolution, The Columbian Exchange, the British East India Company, the Treaty of Westphalia, Van Leeuwenhoek’s microscope, Diderot’s Enlightenment Encyclopedia, the American Experiment, the French Revolution, the British Slavery Abolition Act, the Opium War in China, Darwin and the Origin of Species, binding continents, first women voters in New Zealand, the invention of motion pictures, Kitty Hawk and powered flight, the Russo-Japanese War, discovery of penicillin, the dawn of the atom, walking on the Moon, China entering the world balance, the fall of the Berlin Wall, and the rise of social media.