HIST& 126 - World Civilizations I

• Social Sciences Distribution Requirement

• Fulfills Engage General Education Requirement

1. Become familiar with the major developments of world history up through 1200 CE.
2. Recognize the basic movements, forces, groups and individuals that have shaped human history in the ancient world.
3. Consider how contemporary issues have been shaped by earlier events.
4. Understand the origins, the similarities, and significant differences between major world religious traditions, including Confucianism, Buddhism, Judaism, Christianity and Islam.
5. Understand the origins and diversity of social arrangements in ancient civilizations, including systems of caste, slavery, and patriarchy.
6. SOCIAL SCIENCES: Apply concepts from the social sciences to analyze individual or social phenomena, processes, events, conflicts, or issues.

1. The neo-lithic revolution and the early civilizations
2. The civilizations of China and India
3. Greek civilizations
4. Roman civilizations
5. Byzantine civilizations
6. Arab (Muslim) civilizations
7. European civilizations after the collapse of Roman Empire
8. Feudal Europe
9. The Crusades
10. Students are asked to ponder similarities between historic and current events/situations; and both actual and potential social responses to those situations.
11. Students are introduced to the need to question the source(s) of historical information; and to become conscious of the difference between historical data and historical interpretation (theory); and to become aware of history as propaganda, as legend, as myth, and to seek reasons why.
12. Students are encouraged in these through processes through in-class, verbal questioning, and through carefully worded test questions that cannot be answered via simple memorization.
13. Students are asked to ask who, what, when, where (as historical data); and then to think their way as to why and so what (as theory and interpretation)?especially as they search for causation.