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- Effective Term:
- Fall 2015 through Winter 2016
- Course Number:
- HST 102
- Course Title:
- History of Western Civilization: Medieval to Modern
- Credit Hours:
- 4
- Lecture Hours:
- 40
- Lecture/Lab Hours:
- 0
- Lab Hours:
- 0
Course Description
Covers the High Middle Ages and early modern Europe, including the Renaissance, Reformation, Scientific Revolution, Enlightenment and the French Revolution. Audit available.
Intended Outcomes for the course
Upon successful completion students should be able to:
- Articulate and interpret an understanding of key historical facts and events in late medieval and early modern 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.
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 a historian's thesis and supporting evidence
- Develop your own 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 late medieval and early modern Europe
- Demonstrate college-level communication skills
Themes, Concepts, Issues:
- High and Late Medieval Culture:
- Growth of towns and commerce
- The Crusades
- Growth of national monarchies
- Rise of universities
- Scholasticism
- Arts and letters
- Crises of the Late Middle Ages:
- Black Death
- Hundred Years’ War
- Babylonian Captivity and Great Schism
- Renaissance
- Commercial Revolution
- Overseas Expansion and Colonization
- Protestant and Catholic Reformations
- Religious Wars
- Absolutism
- Scientific Revolution
- Enlightenment
- French Revolution
Considering such factors as:
- Geography
- Social hierarchy
- Political, legal, and economic structures
- Cultural contributions
- Philosophies and religions