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HIS 102
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Title: | Western Civ: 1650-Present: HI1 |
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Long Title: | Western Civilization: 1650-Present: GT-HI1 |
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Course Description: | Explores trends within events, peoples, groups, ideas, and institutions in Western civilization since 1650. This course focuses on developing, practicing, and strengthening skills historians use while constructing knowledge and studying a diverse set of narratives through perspectives such as gender, class, religion, and ethnicity. This is a statewide Guaranteed Transfer course in the GT-HI1 category. |
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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: | revision of competencies entered 11/30/10 LK |
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General Notes: | Update GT/Desc/CLOs/TO effective 202110 |
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REQUIRED COURSE LEARNING OUTCOMES:
1. Reference secondary and tertiary sources to construct knowledge and to develop context.
2. De-construct complex and multiple sources of information into basic historical concepts.
3. Recognize the impact of continuity and change of historical perspective in context of time and space in Western Civilization from 1650 to present.
4. Develop narrative structures and arguments based on evidence.
5. Compare and contrast how peoples, groups, cultures, and institutions change over time in Western Civilization from 1650 to present.
6. Analyze events in Western Civilization from 1650 to present in historical context to illustrate how social, cultural, gender, race, religion, nationality, and other identities affect historical perspectives.
7. Use diverse resources for historical research, including libraries, databases, bibliographies, and archives.
8. Identify perspectives in historical interpretation using secondary sources.
9. Identify types of primary sources, their perspective, and purpose of their author.
10. Create substantive writing samples that employ critical analysis of primary and secondary sources with appropriate citations.
11. Construct knowledge by developing historical narratives from primary and secondary sources, maps, and/or artifacts.
REQUIRED TOPICAL OUTLINE:
I. The transformations of Western Civilization, 1650-1789
A. Absolutism and empire
B. The economy and society of Early Modern Europe
C. The Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment
II. Political and industrial revolution
A. The French Revolution and Napoleon
B. The Industrial Revolution
C. The consequences of industrialization and urbanization
D. Nationalism and nation building
E. Cultural, political and, scientific change
III. The supremacy of Western Civilization
A. Nationalism and Imperialism
B. The impact of a world economy
IV. The crisis of Western Civilization
A. The waning of European primacy: The Great War
B. Ideologies, economics, society, politics, and culture between the wars
C. World War II: The struggle for world power
V. The contemporary world
A. The Cold War
B. The changing relationships in the world
C. Global economy
D. The contemporary world
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Arapahoe Community College |
ACC |
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Colorado Community College Sys |
CCCS |
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Community College of Denver |
CCD |
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Colorado Northwestern CC |
CNCC |
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Front Range Community College |
FRCC |
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Lamar Community College |
LCC |
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Morgan Community College |
MCC |
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Northeastern Junior College |
NJC |
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Otero College |
OJC |
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Pueblo Community College |
PCC |
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Pikes Peak State College |
PPCC |
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Red Rocks Community College |
RRCC |
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Trinidad State College |
TSJC |
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