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This course is an introduction to the development of the
ideas, values, events, religions, and people who shaped the early stages
of the civilization we live in using the rich bibliographic and visual
resources on the World Wide Web.
In a Western Civilization
class you are expected to learn information, to analyze and discuss aspects
of it, and to answer questions that require you know the facts and can
combine them in ways that will thoughtfully answer some complex questions.
Western Civilization is a Humanities class because it requires reading,
analysis, discussion, and writing.
Western Civilization Until 1600
fulfills three credits of the nine credits Humanities graduation requirement
for the College of Du Page Associate of Arts Degree. It transfers as H2
901 in the Illinois Articulation Initiative Humanities and Fine Arts Core
Curriculum.
Some questions this
class may help you to answer:
- How did
wheels, bronze, iron, stirrups, longbows, and firearms affect warfare?
- Why have
women always been oppressed?
- How did
they make stone roofs weighing millions of pounds without steel beams?
- Was there
ever a bisexual society?
- How did
Christians really split up into mutually hostile groups?
- How did
we develop some of our unique ideas like elections, or legislated law?
At the completion
of this course the student will understand:
- The origins of Western Civilization in the ancient
Near East.
- Our intellectual and political heritage from Greece
and Rome.
- The religious, political, social, and intellectual
milieu of medieval Europe.
- The rich heritage of the Renaissance and Reformation.
- The formation of national monarchies in the early modern
period.
- The difference between a secondary source (a history
book composed by a modern author) and a primary source (records from
the past).
- How to read, analyze and interpret primary sources
as historians do, to enrich one’s understanding of the past.
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