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 World History from antiquity to 1500.

 4.  Develop narrative structures and arguments based on evidence.

 5.  Compare and contrast how peoples, groups, cultures, and institutions change over time in World History from antiquity to 1500.

 6.  Analyze events in World History from antiquity to 1500 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 first civilizations

 II.   Ancient India

        A.  The Vedic Age

        B.  The Mauryan Unification

 III.  Classical China

 IV.   Civilization of the Greeks

 V.    Roman civilization

 VI.   The world of Islam

 VII.  Early civilizations in the Americas

 VIII. Civilizations in Africa.

 IX.   European civilization:  400 to 1000 CE

 X.    Europe in the High Middle Ages:  1000 to 1300 CE.

 XI.   India: the Mughals.

 XII.  China: traditional China.

 XIII. Early Japan.

 XIV.  Southeast Asia

 XV.   Native American experience in the New World.

 XVI.  Europe in the 14th and 15th centuries.

 XVII. Foundations of a global world