Course

Course Summary
Credit Type:
Course
ACE ID:
NPEP-0033
Organization:
Pittsburgh Leadership Foundation
Location:
Classroom-based
Length:
Estimated 28 hours (self-study)
Dates Offered:
Credit Recommendation & Competencies
Level Credits (SH) Subject
Lower-Division Baccalaureate 1 History
Lower-Division Baccalaureate 3 History After The Completion Of Both Modules 3 and 4
Description

Objective:

To provide students with the fourth of a four part series of an introductory level general cultural, philosophical, and political history Course that studies the civilizations of the world. The goals of the Course are to demonstrate the cultural and philosophical movements that have influenced the Western world from ancient times to the present. The Course will document the high and low points in the history of Western society, the political confrontations and their consequences, the artistic triumphs and the literary accomplishments, and the never-ending struggles to create societies that could provide both order and justice, protection and furfillment. The Course will examine the lives of extraordinary men and women, heroes, villains, and ordinary citizens -

all those who have contributed to shaping Western society as we know it.

Learning Outcomes:

  • Demonstrate a knowledge of the changes in warfare during the revolutionary and Napoleonic wars as well as the ways in which French armies carried the ideals and institutions of the revolution to other countries and the effects of the French Revolution o
  • Will understand the ways in which various countries achieved unity or national independence in the century after the defeat of Napoleon as well as the principal patterns of overseas expansion and colonization
  • Will be familiar with the changing cultural and economic relationships between the cites and countryside in the late nineteenth century as well as the impact that Darwin's theory of evolution had on social thought
  • Understand the causes that led to the first and second World Wars as well as the military tensions that emerged between the Soviet Bloc and the United States and its allies in the wake of the development of nuclear technology
  • Will be familiar with the Industrial Revolution and the growth of cities during this age
Instruction & Assessment

Instructional Strategies:

  • Audio Visual Materials
Supplemental Materials