Course

Course Summary
Credit Type:
Course
ACE ID:
COLP-0017
Organization's ID:
HIS232
Organization:
Location:
Classroom-based
Length:
8 weeks
Dates Offered:
Credit Recommendation & Competencies
Level Credits (SH) Subject
Lower-Division Baccalaureate 3 Social Sciences, Humanities, or History
Description

Objective:

The course objective is to study the development of the Western world, its institutions and ideas, from the 17th century to the present, the impacts of Western thinking, and the individual responsibility to society.

Learning Outcomes:

  • Evaluate historical events and consequences, politics, economic, religious, and military factors, cultural and social influences, and their regional and global impacts for the eras studied
  • Assess and interpret historical claims, evidence, refutations, and sources
  • Apply academic study and learning as a personal and communal activity
  • Analyze Western civilization from the 1600s to the early 21st century
  • Evaluate and react to history and its significance and meaning
  • Research and analyze history
  • Examine and write critically about the history of this time period
  • Analyze historical constructs in terms of the student's own perspectives and worldview

General Topics:

  • The Romantic Period
  • Naturalism versus Liberalism
  • Congress of Vienna
  • Revolutions of 1848
  • Age of Realism
  • Darwinism
  • Carl Marx
  • Anti-Semitism
  • Feminist movement
  • Industrialization of Europe
  • European imperialism
  • Second wave of colonization
  • Liberalism crisis of 1870
  • Modern thought and enlightenment
  • The ideas of Nietzsche, Dostoevsky, Bergson, and Sorel
  • Sigmund Freud
  • Modernist movement and esthetics
  • Europeans and WW I
  • Wilson's Peace Program
  • The fall of government and democracy in Russia 1917
  • Totalitarianism
  • Nazism
  • Europe after WW I
  • The Great Depression
  • Intellectualism and the end of war
  • Existentialism
  • Hitler and his foreign policy
  • Holocaust
  • Defeat of Nazism
  • Cold War
  • European union
  • Communism collapse and the Soviet Union
  • Muslim immigration
  • Radical Muslims
  • Human rights
  • The tragedy of 9/11
Instruction & Assessment

Instructional Strategies:

  • Audio Visual Materials
  • Discussion
  • Lectures

Methods of Assessment:

  • Examinations
  • Performance Rubrics (Checklists)
  • Quizzes
  • Written Papers

Minimum Passing Score:

70%
Supplemental Materials