HIST 152 - Western Civil/1650 to Present
Credit Hours: 3
Billable Contact Hours: 3
Prerequisites: ENGL 090 and RDG 090 or qualifying scores on accepted placement tests
C6 General Education Social Systems Satisfier Y
MTA Social Sciences Satisfier Y
Global Studies Satisfier Course Y
Session Cycle: WI
This course is a survey-level introduction to western civilizations from 1650 to today. This course will put careful examination on major developments in European and Western societies including, but not limited to, the Scientific Revolution, Enlightenment, French Revolution, Industrial Revolution, Imperialism, World Wars, Holocaust, the Cold War, and their connection to the modern day by using primary and secondary readings. Careful attention is paid to historiographical debates about Western Civilization; the tension between authoritarianism and classical liberalism; the development of capitalism, nationals and their critics; and artistic, philosophical, and social changes. This course is a satisfier course for the Global Studies Degree Designation.
Notes: Humanities/Social Sciences Division
Theory Hours: 45
Learning Outcomes:
1. Understand the fundamental ideas and terminologies in western history, such as, but not limited to the major events, ideas, and material practices of cultures in the Western world.
Applies to General Education Social Systems Competency Objectives A and B.
2. Understand the social, economic, and cultural systems peculiar to western civilizations and their complex interactions with one another in addition to their influence on the modern world.
Applies to General Education Social Systems Competency Objectives A, B, C, and D.
3. Apply the range of skills, via historical methodology, it takes to decode the historical record because of its incomplete, complex, and contradictory nature.
Applies to General Education Social Systems Competency Objectives A, B, C, and D.
4. Create historical arguments and narratives that respond to important historiographical debates connected to the course, particularly within the context of the provisional nature of knowledge, the disciplinary preference for complexity, and the comfort with ambiguity thathistory requires.
Applies to General Education Social Systems Competency Objectives A, B, C, and D.
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