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Course: |
HIS 101
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Title: | Western Civ:Antiquity-1650 HI1 |
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Long Title: | Western Civilization: Antiquity-1650: GT-HI1 |
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Course Description: | Explores a number of events, peoples, groups, ideas, institutions, and trends that have shaped Western Civilization from the prehistoric era to 1650. Reflects the multiple perspectives of gender, class, religion, and ethnic groups. Focuses on developing, practicing, and strengthening the skills historians use while constructing knowledge in this discipline.~~This course is one of the Statewide Guaranteed Transfer courses. GT-HI1 |
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Min Credit: | 3 |
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Course Notes: | This template reflects updates approved by FTCC in 1998. |
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Origin Notes: | ACC |
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General Notes: | revisions to competencies entered 11/20/10 LK |
STANDARD COMPETENCIES:
I. Four general goals integrate history with workplace skills:
A. Acquire information from many sources
B. Break complex and multiple sources of information down into parts to create clearer understanding
C. Understand the impact of time and space on perspective
D. Develop narrative structures and arguments based on evidence
II. Throughout the course, students should be introduced to course content, practice using course content, and demonstrate they can:
A. Describe how peoples, groups, cultures, and institutions covered in this course change over time
B. Understand the events covered in the course in historical context and recognize how social, cultural, gender, race, religion, nationality and other identities affect historical perspective
C. Communicate orally and in writing about the subject of the course and select and apply contemporary forms of technology to solve problems and compile information
D. Use different resources for historical research, including libraries, databases, bibliographies and archives
E. Analyze secondary sources and recognize differences in historical interpretation
F. Identify types of primary sources, the point of view and purpose of their author or creator
G. Create substantive writing samples which employ critical analysis of primary and secondary sources, and document those sources correctly
H. Construct knowledge in the discipline and synthesize historical narratives and timelines from primary and secondary sources, maps, and/or artifact and critically analyze, interpret and evaluate many different points of view to construct historical arguments.
TOPICAL OUTLINE:
I. The beginning of Human Society
A. Paleolithic Era
B. Neolithic (Agricultural) Revolution
II. The Ancient Near East
A. Mesopotamia
B. Egypt
C. Hebrews
D. First Empires
III. Greek and Hellenistic Civilization
A. Origins
B. Classical Greece
C. Hellenistic World
IV. Roman Civilization
A. Roman Republic
B. Roman Empire
C. Decline and Fall of Rome
D. Early Christian Civilization
V. The Middle Ages
A. Byzantine and Islamic Influences
B. Early Middle Ages
C. High Middle Ages
D. Late Middle Ages
VI. The Transition to the Early Modern West
A. Renaissance
B. Reformation and Catholic-Reformation
C. Economic and Geographic Expansion of Europe
D. Rise of Nation States
E. Age of Absolutism
F. Scientific Revolution
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