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- Effective Term:
- Fall 2015 through Winter 2016
- Course Number:
- HST 101H
- Course Title:
- History of Western Civilization: Ancient to Medieval Honors
- Credit Hours:
- 4
- Lecture Hours:
- 40
- Lecture/Lab Hours:
- 0
- Lab Hours:
- 0
Course Description
Honors version of HST 101. Explores the ancient civilization of Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece, and Rome. Covers development of Judeo-Christian beliefs, early Islamic civilization, Byzantine civilization, and early medieval Europe. GPA 3.25 minimum.
Intended Outcomes for the course
Upon completion of the course students should be able to:
- Articulate and interpret an understanding of key historical facts and events in the ancient world and early medieval Europe.
- Identify the influence of culturally based practices, values, and beliefs to analyze how historically defined meanings of difference affect human behavior.
- Identify and investigate historical theses, evaluate information and its sources, and use appropriate reasoning to construct evidence-based arguments on historical issues.
- Construct a well organized historical argument using effective, appropriate, and accurate language.
Additional Honors outcomes:
- Evaluate and critique historical scholarship
- Assess the historiography of a selected subject by evaluating the relevant historical context and by utilizing primary and secondary sources
Social Inquiry and Analysis
Students completing an associate degree at Portland Community College will be able to apply methods of inquiry and analysis to examine social contexts and the diversity of human thought and experience.
Outcome Assessment Strategies
Assess by using any combination of the following:
- Exams
- Essays
- Oral presentations
- Research projects
- Service-learning projects
- Class participation and discussion
- Other creative assignments
Course Content (Themes, Concepts, Issues and Skills)
Competencies and Skills:
- Analyze and evaluate primary and secondary sources
- Identify an historian’s thesis and supporting evidence
- Develop your own thesis and historical interpretation using evidence to support it
- Think critically about the relationships between past and present events and issues
- Compare and contrast the experience of diverse groups in the ancient world and early medieval Europe
- Demonstrate college-level communications skills
Themes, Concepts, Issues:
- Prehistory
- Mesopotamia
- Egypt
- Persia
- Hebrews
- Minoans & Mycenaeans
- Greeks: Hellenic and Hellenistic
- Roman Republic
- Imperial Rome
- Christianity
- Church Doctrine and Structure
- Byzantine Civilization
- Islamic Civilization
- Invasions of Europe
- Early medieval
Considering such factors as:
- Geography
- Social hierarchy
- Political, legal, and economic structures
- Cultural contributions
- Philosophies and religions